Turkey Season 2020

[Birddog916]

I, along with a few friends, sought social distance in the turkey woods over the weekend and were rewarded with 7 birds for 5 hunters over the weekend. In California we are allowed 3 birds in the spring. There was a lot of banging going on for the first 2 days of the California Turkey season. I hunted public land off my mountain bike on Saturday and private land on Sunday, both days were filled with gobbling birds for most of the morning. Gobbles tapered off at about noon both days. I'd have to say the turkey hunting in California rivals most other states I have hunted in and is a great little secret we have. Most of our birds are Rio Grandes and were transplanted here in the 80's. Populations have really taken off, and we are lucky to have so many now. Here are a few photos and a video from the weekend. It will be one for the ages that's for sure. Looks like I'll have turkey chile verde and carnitas in my near future. Good luck to everyone this spring.

 

[lpcoutdoors]

Great story, great hunt, great use of the bike! And isn't "High Life" still one of the best beer branding names ever, makes me want one, or a few right now, and its probably five o'clock somewhere, over in the middle east or somewhere!

 

[teej89]

damn I'm jealous! Good stuff!

 

[Birddog916]

Great story, great hunt, great use of the bike! And isn't "High Life" still one of the best beer branding names ever, makes me want one, or a few right now, and its probably five o'clock somewhere, over in the middle east or somewhere!

It's the High Life for this low life! My favorite cheap beer. Don't get me wrong I love a west coast IPA just as much as any Californian, but an ice cold highlife is hard to beat.

 

[kansasdad]

Nice!

Your bike might need a bit of vias pattern to make it more ninja like. Congratulations to the group

 

[Old man bob]

Congrats ,can't wait............BOB!

 

[Hem]

Yep....super cool.
Envious of your early start.
Kudos to being creative...name of the game sometimes.

 

[jvanhoy]

Awesome!! Youth opens this weekend here in VA. Can’t wait to get my son his first bird.

 

[Birddog916]

*season update*
scored my last bird of the season with the bow this morning. Only a Jake, one of my best friends and I doubled up with archery gear.

 

[AggieHunter]

Never really thought of California as a turkey state, but it looks good!

 

[Nicapopolis]

Never really thought of California as a turkey state, but it looks good!

CA is loaded with turkeys. They live from the Mexican border to the Oregon border.

 

[runningmt]

Sweet! I especially love the tailgate shot with the champagne of beers!

 

[kansasdad]

The more I hunt with my crossbow, the more I know how hard it is to seal the deal on a turkey. Congratulations to you and your buddy

 

[Elkhunter24]

congrats!

 

[timbrhuntr]

That is awesome. I wish California wasn't so far away would love to hunt turkeys there once.

Hey Kansasdad just set a blind over the feeder makes it real easy lol