Turkey Hunter Check In

• LJ

  

  Dunno if there are any or many on here, but today was opening day for spring turkey season. I got to my spot at about 6am this morning (I hunt a 6 acre plot in Westerville for turkey) and could hear turkeys gobbling all over the place already. I got in my blind and loaded my gun at 6:18 (anyone who hunts gets it) and started calling after I heard the crows. Right away I hear a Gobbler down in the ravine (which happens to be a property where I DON"T have permission) and he is about 50-100 years behind me. Over the next 3 1/2 hours I work this bad boy to where I can finally see him. The little bastard would not come out of the ravine. Eventually he said "screw this whore" and peaced out, then he stopped responding to everything, even the crows, so I came home.
  
  Anyone out there have any luck?
• dlazz

  LJ wrote: Anyone out there have any luck?

  No, I don't hunt.
• justincredible

  

  You are a cold blooded murderer. You brut!
• tigerfan82

  LJ............let's just say my gun went "click", instead of "boom"...............after 2 hours of being surrounded by 7 and then 10 hens, before old tom boy showed up........
• BlueJayRay

  I saw 9 of them hit on I-71 between Cincinnati and Louisville last weekend! "Roadkill Stew!"
• tuskytuffguy

  My 13 yr old hunts turkey with his grandfather. He went Saturday, and shot at and rolled one, but it ended up getting away. Personally, I don't care for turkey hunting in any way, shape, or form, but I let him get his kicks.
• I Wear Pants

  There are 8 turkeys that chill in my back field. Kill them and I kill you.
• gorocks99

  

  You jive turkey. See? You got to sass it. Quit jiiiiivin' me, turkey. You got to sass it. A "turkey" is a bad person.
  
  
• THE4RINGZ

  

  Tom 1 - LJ 0 after Round One
• Enforcer

  

  Took my Daughter out today , We seen 5 Jakes but nothing close enough to shoot
• LJ

  

  THE4RINGZ wrote: Tom 1 - LJ 0 after Round One

  At least it was mainly property lines that defeated me today.... unless a bird with that small of a brain knows the property lines
• LJ

  

  Enforcer wrote: Took my Daughter out today , We seen 5 Jakes but nothing close enough to shoot

  You ever have one gobble at everything for over 3 hours but never come into the decoys? Did he just want her to come to him and bring a sandwich?
• berry

  When a bird hangs up like that, you can sometimes fool him by moving farther away and start calling again. If no response, move farther still and repeat with a gobble after your call. If he thinks you are leaving or being serviced, he might give up on waiting and come to you.
• LJ

  

  berry wrote: When a bird hangs up like that, you can sometimes fool him by moving farther away and start calling again. If no response, move farther still and repeat with a gobble after your call. If he thinks you are leaving or being serviced, he might give up on waiting and come to you.

  I was in a blind, so it probably would have scared him off to move. Maybe make the fly down cluck and then start yelping quieter? My dad also picked up a new Fighting Purr for me, so I am gonna try that tomorrow too. Apparently it's really good to bring gobblers in, seeing as how they want the hen to come to them.
• berry

  Fly down cluck, beat your gloves against your legs and get the welcome wagon ready cause a gobbler will sometimes fly in right beside you when he hears that.
• LJ

  

  berry wrote: Fly down cluck, beat your gloves against your legs and get the welcome wagon ready cause a gobbler will sometimes fly in right beside you when he hears that.

  you think the fighting purr will do anything
• berry

  It's always fun to use different tactics on the birds, and the fighting purr might come in handy sometime. You are almost as likely to call in some hens this time of year as the females love to watch a good fight, but the males might come running too. If you use the fighting purr this early in the season, I would suggest that you end with a gobble so that a dominant tom may come looking to see which guys are fighting in his territory.
  
  But I believe you will have more success with the purr during the fall season when the birds are more likely to be fighting to establish a pecking order. The fighting purr is great when you spot a flock in the fall and the flock is not scattered. Sometimes the entire flock will come running to watch the fight. Before the purr was marketed, my hunting buddies and I would use different mouth calls to purr loudly and use our gloves to stir up the leaves while trying to sound like fighting birds. Worked a few times but mostly not.