Hey teammates to limit on numerous threads here is one for general talk. Same as last year
What's your favorite call if you could take just one?
I have a box call made by a man right up the road from me. He gave it to me. It is my go to.j
just 1 call? it would have to be a mouth call
but pickin the one and only diaphragm would be tough
I'd have a slate. That's just my favorite style call.
Quote from: Illini Tom on February 09, 2017, 08:07:25 AM
just 1 call? it would have to be a mouth call
but pickin the one and only diaphragm would be tough
Tom doesn't want to admit it but his favorite call is a Gooserbat Double Bit.
ha. the double bit helped me get 2 of my 3 spring toms last year
but ... i used bacon to call in and shoot 3 fall season toms in 2016
so, i might have a new favorite ;D
I couldn't handle it any longer today after finding out my wife drew what is our early season tag here in MN. Already started lining up the local properties and sat down all weekend and got as many hunts as I could packed into April. Have one end of March archery hunt in NE already taken care of and KS lined up. I wish April was 30 days longer!
Guys just added an eotech to one of my rigs..any thoughts?
I like using a Sinclair 3.25'' titanium over glass mesquite pot down here in South Texas. I've traded a few hunts and had out of staters hunt with me and Johns calls always make it easy to decapitate rios less than 10yards every season.
Quote from: turkey buster on February 20, 2017, 01:48:36 PM
Guys just added an eotech to one of my rigs..any thoughts?
Honestly I am intrigued by the red-dot idea, I'm just to tight to try it.
Quote from: Gooserbat on February 21, 2017, 12:46:09 AM
Quote from: turkey buster on February 20, 2017, 01:48:36 PM
Guys just added an eotech to one of my rigs..any thoughts?
Honestly I am intrigued by the red-dot idea, I'm just to tight to try it.
I put a Burris Fastfire on my 20ga that I like and the eotech was on my AR...gonna try it out anyway and see.
Quote from: Gooserbat on February 21, 2017, 12:46:09 AM
Quote from: turkey buster on February 20, 2017, 01:48:36 PM
Guys just added an eotech to one of my rigs..any thoughts?
Honestly I am intrigued by the red-dot idea, I'm just to tight to try it.
I love my red dot on my 870 (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170225/b7d86262d0f69572a58c7ddf445a8b29.jpg)
with changing vision, i'm gonna have to put some type of scope on the slug gun this year, but think i will stick with fiber optics on the ol mossberg turkey slayer for now
Quote from: turkey buster on February 08, 2017, 08:24:57 PM
What's your favorite call if you could take just one?
If I could only take one it'd be my Dad's Purple Heart over cedar. That call makes gobblers want to die and it can do everything you need to kill turkeys.
With that said, my hanks Osage goulds paired with a Lyman snakewood is probably coming out of my vest first thing opening morning this spring.
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Quote from: turkey buster on February 08, 2017, 08:24:57 PM
What's your favorite call if you could take just one?
It would be a dead heat between my glass call lee made me or a cheap ring zone slate my dad bought me (my first call) I called most my birds in with the two
Just curious, where does everyone have hunts planned for the spring??
Louisiana is home for me and where I'll be hunting. I think this team is a curse, I haven't been able to go out of state because of work since I joined it lol!
My home state of Tennessee only place I'll be hunting
Turkey Buster I just seen a bunch of turkeys on the bank at tallulah and seen some at vidalia yesterday they all over the place in mid to northern part of La
Central Virginia is home for me. It's the only state I've ever hunted in. I don't really have that much desire to venture out chasing birds or whitetails for that matter. The only thing that's got me itching to venture out is elk, at this point though that's just a dream.
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Home is Oklahoma. I'll hunt here Missouri, New Mexico and I may Venture off to Kansas before it's over.
Hey guys wanted to share the link to my 6 year old daughters first buck kill back in December
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAAhaW4PdjU&feature=share
cool vid, nick, congrats to both of you :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
does hallie get your best turkey spot this year? ;D
Quote from: Illini Tom on March 10, 2017, 10:47:51 AM
cool vid, nick, congrats to both of you :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
does hallie get your best turkey spot this year? ;D
Actually she does lol she wanting to shoot a turkey but with a crossbow ??? I got her a brand new super bantam mossberg she don't won't to shoot it
Aggravated about last weekends youth hunt. Took my 8yr old son and was covered up by other hunters who didn't have a child with them!! Rant over
Quote from: turkey buster on March 21, 2017, 03:53:05 PM
Aggravated about last weekends youth hunt. Took my 8yr old son and was covered up by other hunters who didn't have a child with them!! Rant over
Yeah that's bull crap I would have been upset
We're quite this year.... is season open for anyone yet?
I'm still 2 weeks out.
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Watched these guys for 4 hours
Our season opened Saturday but I didn't get to hunt until Monday and it was almost successful. I had a fun hunt and had one at 10 steps but I couldn't get on him in thick brush. He completely circled me and I never got a shot off before he couldn't find the hen he was hunting and left. Today I didn't hear a bird.
I'm hoping Monday one shows up I will be using a bow that day and Tuesday Wednesday I'll get the 870 even though I'm considering carrying both on Tuesday
Dang turkey gobbled 30-40 times this morning but wouldn't come no closer than 75 yards. Back to work maybe I'll get one next week.
good luck ... knock em ded, guys :gobble:
i start a week from monday.
drew my third tag today :happy0064:
I'm guiding the first 3 days. Then it's off to the Killzone
I missed one today
I got 3 days to hunt starting Thursday. I've only worked 2 birds so far and both are still living. We had a very early spring.
Gobbler down
Awesome
Doubled up with the father in law this evening (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170405/9a07afbbb6c4d88d689e0937b70787ce.jpg)
Got one down his evening
Just got done loading 3# of tss. It's about time.
way to go, guys :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
just got back from a fishing trip up nort
time to turn the attention from walleyes to full bore gobbler chasin
Opening day in Virginia here. My hunting partner killed this awesome bird at 10:05. He gobbled good on the limb responded a few times on the ground but went quite for a few hours. We hung with him and I struck him again at 9:45. Got watch an awesome show for about 200 yards of him strutting and gobbling all the way to 6 steps. 24.8 pounds, 9.5" beard 1 1/8" spurs. We'll be back at it in the morning and I'm up to bat. Beautiful plume on the bird also.
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Quote from: theghost_03 on March 01, 2017, 08:53:05 PM
Just curious, where does everyone have hunts planned for the spring??
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
And thanks to you guys, I'll definitely be bringing my Halloran Crystal Mistress.
Very nice bird
nice tom. now shoot his twin :D
Gobbler didn't want to die this morning. He came off the limb hammering got to about 70 yards and drew a line in the sand. Strutted and gobbled for 45 minutes until he found something better to go do in the opposite direction. Birds have been very vocal all morning, just haven't found the right one.
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I had a bad hunt yesterday evening. Shot at a turkey and somehow didn't connect which hasn't happened in 6-7 years and then had a pack of hogs come in. I shot the biggest hog square in the side of the head at 20 yards. Hit it so hard I watched dirt fly off its face and it ran away never to be seen again. Definitely a humbling hunt.
Few more days for me up north and the seasons will kick in. Good luck guys!
another one on the board for the chooters :z-guntootsmiley:
scored 69
Good job tom
Nice!
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Great job so far. I've killed a few, nothing big yet. Heading to my honey hole in MO next weekend so I'll try to post some scores then.
Quote from: Gooserbat on April 15, 2017, 05:34:47 PM
Great job so far. I've killed a few, nothing big yet. Heading to my honey hole in MO next weekend so I'll try to post some scores then.
Good luck
really quiet around here ???
be nice to hear whats up with the new guys :icon_thumright:
got a nice one yesterday that scored 64. came in silent after last gobble about 150 yards away. couldnt see him coming, but 20 minutes later he cut loose 10 yards behind the blind
Nice bird tom
Ten more days and I get a chance at a possible upgrade
bust a biggun, nick
i am in holding pattern, too, final tag is for fourth season that starts the 27th
This is our final weekend
What about everyone else how there season going ain't seen much from rest of the team
Got a dandy this morning. Posting soon.
BOOM!!!!
wow. great bird. big congrats
those are some killer spurs :happy0064: :happy0064:
headin out for day 2 of my final season/tag. no action or gobbles at all yesterday. windy, rainy, wind chill in the high 30s. looks like another sit in the tent ... and rain in the forecast the next 4 days :P
Awesome bird
After sitting for an hour in 25 MPH winds and starting to rain I had given up. Took my vest off and started walking a hardwood bottom looking for morels. After walking a few hundred yards the wind died down just for a few seconds and I heard a gobble. I eased up to the trail that goes through our lease and heard him again. I closed the distance some and sat on a stump on the side of the trail. I had my gun and still in camo but left my vest and deeks when I decided to give up. Luckily I kept my mouth call in. A few yelps and he gobbled back. Next thing I know here he comes running around a bend in the trail. Gun still in my lap and not much cover. He stops about 80 yard to strut a bit. A couple soft yelps and he starts running again right at me. If I didn't go to raise my gun up I think he would've ran right past me. Soon as he saw the gun come up he put on the brakes and made one putt but it was too late for him. Best bird I've ever taken.
Damn that sounds like a exciting hunt
my season's over. filled tag no. 3 friday
got one to come in mid-morning during a break in the rain
didnt gobble, just a couple half hearted fans, nice tom but no upgrade
hope the team can get a few more on the scoreboard
Where's everybody at how's the hunting going
Wishing I'd went to Oklahoma a few weeks ago when it was offered. I've been going south and fishing for reds and catching crabs
I walked up on a group of hens and they started to spook and I pulled out my bmobile silk fan and actually fanned them got within 30 yds and back crawled away to a gully and slid out that crap actually works my buddy that was with me had a hen decoy holding it beside me we was shocked we got so close and got out without spooking them now we wanting to try it on a gobbler
I may get to hunt one more weekend here in TN. But it would take another personal best for me to upgrade. Not optimistic.
This season has been unique... I didn't score any of my Oklahoma birds because they all were smallish. Had to skip Missouri and New Mexico happened with messed up pics. Oh well I have one last chance in Nebraska towards the end of the month.
Hopefully our individual seasons hasn't been as disappointing as our team score has looked
I'm done no luck at a bird upgrade hell I didn't hear a gobble last two weeks
Sorry guys been all over the last month and half hunting. Ended up shooting a stud here in MN with my bow. Ended up being the new state typical record. I will get things up soon!
all right, way to go, ghost
cant wait to see pics :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
Way to go ghost
Is everyone season done