Turkey Season Is Upon Us!

[Pete Correale]

Everybody is quiet in here….

Who is killin turkeys?

Heading home from Mississippi right now. Spent a few days with Josh Quong chasing gobblers.
Had good gobbling and plenty of action each hunt but damned if every bird wasn’t henned up and locked down.

Could roasted a couple of super jakes, who came right to the end of our gun barrels but their big brother wouldn’t leave his bitches.

One thing I love about turkey hunting is how you can have a hell of a good hunt and still not pull the trigger.

Good times with great friends no matter what

Atta boys!

 

[Rob Thompson]

Ohio is unique in that we have a south zone which starts April 25 and a northeast zone which starts May 2. Both zones have a month long season. The northeast zone is the 5 northeast counties of the state. My farm is on the property line where the northeast and south zones split. I have several properties I can hunt in both zones, so my season is extended two weeks for the most part. The birds weee gobbling yesterday morning. It’s getting close!

 

[Pete Correale]

Just got to Florida, gonna try and kill my first Osceola…. See if they live up to all the hype…

 

[Rob Thompson]

Just got to Florida, gonna try and kill my first Osceola…. See if they live up to all the hype…

Whack one! Can’t wait to see some pics. Which ones you need for the slam yet?

 

[Tony Caggiano]

Just got to Florida, gonna try and kill my first Osceola…. See if they live up to all the hype…

Turkeys are turkeys, don’t change the way you hunt any of them and you’ll knock the hell out of em.

They don’t weigh much, but can have some killer spurs and beards.

 

[JRQ]

Everybody is quiet in here….

Who is killin turkeys?

Heading home from Mississippi right now. Spent a few days with Josh Quong chasing gobblers.
Had good gobbling and plenty of action each hunt but damned if every bird wasn’t henned up and locked down.

Could roasted a couple of super jakes, who came right to the end of our gun barrels but their big brother wouldn’t leave his bitches.

One thing I love about turkey hunting is how you can have a hell of a good hunt and still not pull the trigger.

Good times with great friends no matter what

Hell of a damn time, @Tony Caggiano ... except for not shooting a bird in the beak.

But it's always a great time to bullshit, laugh, and fart in the woods with your homie during the downtime.

Until the next adventure, fam!

 

[JRQ]

Handed my daughter a Turkey call for the first time the other day. With basically no instruction, she was immediately able to figure out how to pull some sound out of my trusty slate call. Yesterday we ventured off into a public land spot where i have been trying to kill a bird at for years, to do a little scouting. Within ten minutes we had two birds gobbling. She was on the slate, I was firing off a mouth call. We sat down on a long and had a long beard on us, within 40 yards in just a few minutes. Go figure…. I’ll probably never see a bird in there again. Such a cool experience for her to experience that her first time looking for them. We were pretty fired View attachment 3606
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[JRQ]

Love his articles! Shout out to a fellow teacher who I’d be proud to call a colleague. Hard to find guys in my profession who still play our games in the woods and haven’t taken a left turn on the political spectrum.

Thanks, man!

Hope to hit the woods with you one day!

 

[Rob Thompson]

Thanks, man!

Hope to hit the woods with you one day!

I’m sure we would have plenty to talk about and stories to share.

 

[gelhaargerald]

We are getting close.

Strutting decoys cheating or fair game?

 

[Rob Thompson]

We are getting close.

Strutting decoys cheating or fair game?

Far from cheating. I’ve had many birds coming in on a string, see that strutter and turn tail and leave. All depends on the mood of the bird. Crawling behind a strutter decoy to get within range of a bird hung up in a field is pretty cool. Just have to be in a place where you don’t have to worry about or have balls big enough to take a load of TSS in the face from some moron who doesn’t know the difference between a decoy and a live bird.

 

[Al "Shifty" Schultz]

We are getting close.

Strutting decoys cheating or fair game?

I think dekes are fine.. maybe it's because I'm hunting out in the west and hunting Merriam's, but dekes out here offer no advantage. In fact 9 times out of 10 where I hunt a strutting Tom will strut in an opening or open hillside and expect the hens to come to him. And if he sees a strutting Tom deke he'll just strut where he's at and expect the hens to come to him.
Out here dekes are actually more of a PIA because it's big country and I have more success "stick and move, stick and move". Calling, and when I get an answer swiftly trying to close the distance, call and move, call and move, until I can get in close then try to get him to strut within range. Moving and setting up dekes every few minutes and carrying them around isn't worth it. There's way too many birds blowing up out here and each has it's own ridge.

 

[Pete Correale]

We are getting close.

Strutting decoys cheating or fair game?

Fair game in my opinion

 

[Pete Correale]

Far from cheating. I’ve had many birds coming in on a string, see that strutter and turn tail and leave. All depends on the mood of the bird. Crawling behind a strutter decoy to get within range of a bird hung up in a field is pretty cool. Just have to be in a place where you don’t have to worry about or have balls big enough to take a load of TSS in the face from some moron who doesn’t know the difference between a decoy and a live bird.

I agree with all of this!

 

[gelhaargerald]

Last year it was pretty deadly here in Iowa.

I am thinking about picking up another for when my boys are hunting off by themselves