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Post by grizz1 on Mar 25, 2014 8:18:15 GMT -5
  Here are the two Gobblers that feed every day in my corn field, people have been telling me how big they are and I'm thinking they are not the largest I've seen by far but still decent length of beards just not that heavy. So Scott, what do you think, pull the trigger or let them go? |
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Post by grizz1 on Mar 25, 2014 8:33:46 GMT -5
So I've posted these with the old computer, took a long time and now I'm on the new computer to see if it worked. In the first pic the gobbler is actually the bird that is to the right in the 2nd pic. Looks to me like he is heavier but somewhat shorter beard length. Have a bird on our East farm that looks much larger and a heavy beard but he is staying too far out to get a good pic so far, he will also have about 5 guys hunting him when season opens making him a real challenge.
Anyway thought I'd post a couple of not very good pics and promise to improve once I learn how to get this new computer working.
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Post by LongSpur39 on Mar 26, 2014 7:55:03 GMT -5
Very nice!!!!! Got some good ropes on em!! So that's what bare ground looks like!! Lol! Hope ya get a crack at those boys. Haven't seen any here in quite awhile.
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Post by grizz1 on Mar 26, 2014 9:04:17 GMT -5
Never even thought that a good bare ground pic would be popular but after this winter it IS a sight to see. We keep getting tracking snow that melts off each day but just about all ice and old snow is gone, finally.The Turkey are anxious for spring just like we aare, they are strutting and moving territories, may see one anywhere now. Seem to have a lot of hens for the older Gobblers so may be some hard hunting this spring.
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Post by 4Pointer on Mar 26, 2014 22:21:10 GMT -5
sOME FINE LOOKING BIRDS ,, GREAT PIC'S STEVE ,, THANKS FOR SHARING ,,
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Post by Kt29 on Mar 27, 2014 0:56:24 GMT -5
Steve, you have some nice birds their. I would be drooling very heavily if they were in range during hunting season. Nice pics. Good you got that new computer going.  |
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Post by LongSpur39 on Mar 28, 2014 19:29:30 GMT -5
With this long winter and no real early breeding like last year. The gobbling should be pretty good this season. Last year in some areas they seemed less enthused about gobbling . Like they were gobbled out a bit. A late spring is not always a bad thing for spring turkey. Just a bad thing for cabin fever.
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Post by grizz1 on Mar 28, 2014 23:35:38 GMT -5
Always a surprise how the season will play out. I've got in a lot of years of hunting them and there seems to be many things that affect their gobbling but never have been good at predicting when that's gonna be. I've also enjoyed being self employed which means low income but able to hunt a lot so if you go everyday you will hit the good days.
My state of MO is a long state North to South and centrally located of course so we really have two good gobbling seasons normally. The pro hunters seem to hit the big woods down South in the Ozarks first part of the season and head North later to find the best gobbling and call response. I'm located in the far North part of the state so opening day can be early and it usually gets better as time goes by. The 3 week season here was brought on to help hit those prime times for more hunters so I heard.
An old turkey hunter that hunted many states each year ending at my place in May once told me that the best time was when the Redbud trees were in full bloom. Of course he did no waiting but instead went to where the trees were blooming, bought a tag and started hunting. For me, well I just stay on my farm and wait until they start gobbling and hope for the best.
Old Mil would start in Florida, hit Alabama and Miss, then Arkansas, sometimes Georgia before he stopped in Mo. He shot a lot of Turkey and found a lot of Morels each spring and sure had the stories by the time he camped at our place in late April. After all that hunting he still got out everyday, through wind, thunderstorms, light or heavy rain didn't matter, he said you had to be ready in case things got good and they decided to gobble. Hate to admit I'm from a younger generation and after about 4 days it can get real easy for me to sleep in and that's when I will miss the best gobbling.
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Post by LongSpur39 on Mar 29, 2014 16:22:57 GMT -5
I always like when the leaves are the size of squirrels ears. Lol!! I've been very fortunate to hunt the past 25 seasons out of nearly 30, every day of may. I missed a few days here and there. Your friend was obviously a good turkey hunter. I will and have hunted in some of the worst weather. High winds and rain to whiteout blowing snow. Predicting good gobbling days will never happen. I wish it would. Or I'd figure out the big secret. That's why any chance I can be out there I will. Two of my all time favorite hunts were in absolute downpours. One of them the wind was gusting to 45 mph. Two buddies backed out and said I was nuts. All I remember with both hunts is how hard those gobblers were gobbling. The turkeys had been quiet for 3 or more days. But on those bad weather days the thunder gobbles seemed unreal. My favorite saying to fellow hunters and buddies. The turkeys have no place to get out of the weather why should I. And the only way you learn all you can about turkey hunting is to kill them in any weather.
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Post by grizz1 on Mar 29, 2014 22:53:02 GMT -5
^^^^ Well said Scott, and you are right on. Yes my old friend was quite the turkey hunter, passed away at the age of 82 just over a year ago, in his last year of turkey hunting had taken a fall and spring bird with his crossbow, both mature Gobblers. He made a barrel type slate call and had for 50 years, sold thousands of them and won a state championship contest with a call he had made in the 70's.
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Post by LongSpur39 on Mar 30, 2014 12:24:01 GMT -5
Now that's a person I could of listened to all day long, telling hunting adventures. I had and old timer who told such great stories I'd lose track of time every time I stopped by. Walt would give the tiniest of details. It was like listening to a book.
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