Turkeys - lets see em

[jdf]

This morning.

 

[bigjohn]

Arizona Goulds 5/1/2020. I had planned to use my bow, but a fall while scouting 3 days before the season resulted in shoulder injury. My only option was to call a turkey in close and shoot it with a dove load as I knew I couldn't handle a 3.5" load of 5 shot. Worked out well!

 

[TheGreek]

I got lucky on my Uncle’s farm in S.E. PA on 5-4-20. We put the heart and liver to good use. Delicious.

 

[belshawelk]

Picked up a young one today.

 

[Slm864]

Another thunder chicken. Pretty uneventful hunt. Slept in with the kiddos and headed out around 9. I heard a gobble pretty far off in the distance and tried to get to within 100 yards of where I thought he was before doing any calling. He was pretty fired up and strutted his way in until he met his demise and was back home by 10. I have always used a red dot scope on my turkey gun and ran into an issue, my battery died but thankfully I always have a spare in my vest. I must have forgot to turn it off my previous time out. Well turns out I used my spare battery in a toy for one of the kids so I was digging through my vest as the bird strutted in. I ended up shooting him with the regular bead under the see through mounts so all worked anyways. Lesson learned though, always check before walking out the door. 10 inch beard and 1-3/8 spurs.




edited to appease @Old man bob to show my beautiful face.

 

[Zootownelk]

Second season, first bird! Can't believe I didn't get into this earlier in life. I'm hooked!

 

[Old man bob]

Why do people cross out their faces. Are they famous or paranoid?...................BOB!

 

[Slm864]

Probably just comes back to the thought of any part of your identity being on the web and made public. I personally have never had any social media platform in my life until I joined HT and only did because this fit into something I enjoy. I edited it and after some thought I am certain I would be being naive to not think my wife or someone else doesn’t already have my face plastered on Facebook or something else.

 

[JRob]

Got my first ever turkey this morning! I was out the last three weekends too, and my friend got one on our first outing. Second outing we heard nothing. Third outing I forgot my calls and couldn't bring anything in got plenty of info on their patterns and habits, though.

This morning I knew where to wait for them. Saw a tom at about 120 yards, used a slate to call him in and he stopped at what looked like 40-50 yards, and we basically argued for 3-5 minutes over who should come closer. I finally decided to risk being spotted and pulled up my range finder, 38 yards, and he didn't notice me moving. Well, I'm not going to get a better shot than that so...boom! Sent him an invite to have dinner with us and it was graciously received. Gifted the meat to my mom as a mother's day present.

 

[JRob]

Lesson learned though, always check before walking out the door.

Don't feel too bad. This morning I backed out of the driveway and put my truck in drive before realizing I left my shotgun in the house.

 

[sticktownsend]

Shot my first turkey yesterday. More a hunt of opportunity as I shot him in the back of my property. 12" beard and spurs almost 1 1/2".

 

[brownbear932008]

Shot my first turkey yesterday. More a hunt of opportunity as I shot him in the back of my property. 12" beard and spurs almost 1 1/2".
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You should really just quit while your ahead as you will probably never shoot another bigger than that. WOW!!!!!

 

[NYyotekiller]

Shot my first turkey yesterday. More a hunt of opportunity as I shot him in the back of my property. 12" beard and spurs almost 1 1/2".
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That bird might have the biggest spurs I’ve ever seen! Congratulations.

 

[Nicapopolis]

Third outing I forgot my calls and couldn't bring anything in got plenty of info on their patterns and habits, though.

Did you try mouth calling at all?

 

[phutch30]

The 2020 turkey season has been good. Started in FL with my son at my buddys farm for Osceola's. He shot two, one was a beast with a 12" beard.

Onto Montana, no complaints here..we have filled 9 of 12 tags so far...theres still a week left and 3 tags in the family to go..weathers gunna be crappy but we are going to try

 

[406LIFE]

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[Wally Dog]

Washington down, Idaho down, on to Oregon for my NW slam.
Washington Merriams in image.

 

[glennw89]

An update to my Ontario wild turkey season ...

My dad is not a serious hunter. After wild turkey hunting opened in our area, my dad took his wild turkey hunting course and got back into hunting so he could join me in the field. My dad and I have hunted wild turkey together every spring since 2007 on and around his rural property. While I hunt hard for the entire five week spring season on multiple properties/areas (usually calling for friends as much as hunting for myself), my dad's hunting is typically just the two or three hunts each spring we get out on. In 13 springs of wild turkey hunting my dad had only tagged one bird - a jake in 2013. That changed tonight when he made a great 27 meter shot to level this mature longbeard (18.7 lbs, 8 inch beard, 0.75 inch spurs). I had called the bird about 250 meters across a field, his head glowing like a white orb and the evening sun glinting off his plumage during strut. At 68 years old, his first mature longbeard!

 

[Prairie Rambler]

2020 Washington state, GMU 130. County is listed as Rio's but it looks like a Merriams to me. 9.5" beard

 

[JRob]

Did you try mouth calling at all?

I did, but I haven't practiced enough to do it convincingly.