Hunting Updates!

[JeffC]

Muzzy, snowman and austin are lucky enough to be in the woods/ fields!!    Any one else have any updates?? Muzzy have you been in contact with snowman?? Is he still dragging a monster bird back to the truck?!?
Muzzy wish you luck if your able to get out this weekend! 

[Muzzy61]

Muzzy, snowman and austin are lucky enough to be in the woods/ fields!!    Any one else have any updates?? Muzzy have you been in contact with snowman?? Is he still dragging a monster bird back to the truck?!?
Muzzy wish you luck if your able to get out this weekend! 

Snoman on the board today. He was like me working to get his little hunter his first bird.
Opening week has been tough. majority of our lease has been recently clear cut or in the process. Got birds on different patterns and they are henned up bad. Hopefully they will start breaking up soon.

[snoman4]

I had a memorable hunt, to say the least.  I got in the area, I wanted to hunt, about 6 am.  I was set up where a swamp and new clearcut meet up. As I was setting my decoys out, my stomach gave a bunch of hard and fast rumbles.  I'm like, ohh noo.  I'm now shedding my backpack, jacket, and waist pack and trying to find a tree I can lean against to do my business.  All this while getting the TP and wet wipes and praying I can get my pants down in time.  It was close, but a crisis was averted!  I get everything set up and await sun up.  A few crows sound off, and I hear a gobble SW of me a few hundred yards. 10 minutes later, the sun is just over the horizon, and a Sparrow Hawk hunting caused a gobbler to sound off E of me, closer than the first gobble I heard.  He sounds off a few times to my tree calling and knows where I'm at.  I shut up.  A few minutes later I feel it's fly down time, so I hit a fly down cackle but get  no response.  My first thought was that he was already on the ground.  4 minutes later, I see a black body in the clearcut E of me.  A quick raise of the binoculars, and I see a red head and beard.  I grab the gun and get it up.  60 yards out, he stops and stares hard at the decoys.  I give a few clucks and light yelp, and he starts moving again.  50 yards out, he pops in to full strut and circles N of my decoys to get to the backside of the jake.  He bumps the jake, takes a step back, and I give one cluck.  He partially came out of strut and raised his head.  I squeeze the trigger, and he flops right into my jake decoy.

[JeffC]

Like you said, you won't forget that morning!!    Glad it all worked!! Congrats on a great Tom!! Congrats for breaking the ice on another season, 1st tom for the team!!       

[JeffC]

Snoman on the board today. He was like me working to get his little hunter his first bird.
Opening week has been tough. majority of our lease has been recently clear cut or in the process. Got birds on different patterns and they are henned up bad. Hopefully they will start breaking up soon.
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Just lost 140 acres behind my house to clear cutting, within 2 weeks animals were back, nervous but getting used to it, at least till houses start going up.

Wishing you both more safe and successful hunting!!   

[backforty]

Congrats snoman

[notsure]

Great job Snoman!

[Kaleb978]

Congratulations snoman!

[GobbleNut]

Congrats on a fine gobbler, snoman4. You keep knocking them down like that, we might have to raise you to snoman3...  

[snoman4]

Congrats on a fine gobbler, snoman4. You keep knocking them down like that, we might have to raise you to snoman3...  

Wrong way...Snoman5 is the next level in the hierarchy....at Snoman10 level I turn into this....

[10th Legionaire]

Way to go Snoman4!

The predawn bubble got has disrupted my life more than I care to admit 

[HillclimberWV]

Good job snoman