collapse

Advertisement


Author Topic: Birds are HOT!  (Read 4225 times)

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 49687
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Birds are HOT!
« on: April 24, 2008, 07:40:11 PM »
I saw over thirty NICE toms in shotgun or bow range today.   Plus many more.  THEY ARE HOT.   This weekend ought to be gangbusters for you.  I honestly paid little attention to them, wasn't even in a picture taking mood.  I was trying my dangdest to find some antlers.   Of couse it snowed some more up high.....by the way...heres a hint go high on the snow line.   

Offline NWTFhunter

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Sep 2007
  • Posts: 1450
  • Location: N.E. North Dakota
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #1 on: April 24, 2008, 10:26:12 PM »
Bone, are you refering to the area around you ?

Cameron

Offline mossback91

  • Political & Covid-19 Topics
  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Dec 2007
  • Posts: 3190
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #2 on: April 24, 2008, 10:33:32 PM »
I knew you liked birds bone...considering you ahve a bird farm adn all but to call them HOT WOW!! you need to get out afetr horns more and stop starign at them purty birds haha

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 49687
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2008, 06:31:23 AM »
I think if you held still long enough they'd be humping your leg like a little Terrier.   Timing is perfect right now.  There were alot of single Toms and they were higher than the hens.  They'd respond to anything even the worst caller on the planet.  I was just playing with them with my mouth and regular bird calls, with no diaphram and they were going nuts.   I'm horrible, as I think I even have a tag, but have little interest in the fellas.   No, this was up in the NE corner.  Public land though and no company.  I ran into a couple grouped up still with hens and they weren't that interested in anything but eating.  Those were lower.  The hotties were up in the snow.

Offline ICEMAN

  • Site Sponsor
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: May 2007
  • Posts: 15575
  • Location: Olympia
  • The opinionated one... Y.A.R. Exec. Staff
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2008, 06:32:03 AM »
Bone! Please stop!!! Some of us have already burned a ton of gas after Toms and have decided to wait a few weeks till things warm up some more!!!  :'(
molṑn labé

A Knuckle Draggin Neanderthal Meat Head

Kill your television....do it now.....

Don't make me hurt you.

“I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.”  John Wayne

Offline DeKuma

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2007
  • Posts: 2016
  • Location: Burlington, WA
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2008, 06:40:16 AM »
*censored*!
I decided yesterday not to make the trip over for gas reasons and I have a memorial service for my Godmother on Sunday.  Figured since the hunting sucked I was not missing anything.

Thanks alot Bone!  Now I am kicking myself!  (Though the memorial is important to attend)
- Scott

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 49687
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2008, 06:53:09 AM »
THere will be lots of birds then too guys.  If you suffer from not being a very good caller though, this weekend is going to be the chit.  They wintered amazingly well.  They haven't been fighting too much so are full feathered.  I saw one missing about half his tail feathers, so either someone shot at the wrong end or a coyote tried ot have a snack.   

Offline Gobble

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Frontiersman
  • *****
  • Join Date: Apr 2008
  • Posts: 2532
  • Location: Buckley, Wa
  • Wack'em and Stack'em
    • Dave Harder
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2008, 07:16:29 AM »
SWEET! Were leaving as soon as my son is out of school. Hopefully he can get his first turkey  :chuckle:

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 49687
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2008, 07:19:47 AM »
I'd pick him up early............make his day and then get the heck out of dodge.

Offline DeKuma

  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Nov 2007
  • Posts: 2016
  • Location: Burlington, WA
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #9 on: April 25, 2008, 08:13:56 AM »
This has me sitting here calculating time and fuel costs in the Dodge.  How much will I spend and how fast can I get there, hunt and get to Anacortes on Sunday for the Funeral?  It would cost me an arm and a leg or more, but I really do not want to sit this weekend out!
- Scott

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 49687
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #10 on: April 25, 2008, 08:17:55 AM »
Honestly you should be able to get it done Saturday anyway, and then be on your way home to process the bird, but you are tlaking to a guy that just spent a fortune for 4-5 hours of hiking.

Offline Machias

  • Trapper
  • Trade Count: (+5)
  • Explorer
  • ******
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 18688
  • Location: Worley, ID
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #11 on: April 25, 2008, 08:34:18 AM »
Bone...ssshhhhh  :)      :hunter:
Fred Moyer

When it's Grim, be the GRIM REAPER!

Offline boneaddict

  • Site Sponsor
  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (0)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 49687
  • Location: Selah, Washington
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #12 on: April 25, 2008, 08:44:05 AM »
 :)

What a great weekend to be alive.  Fishing season opens, Turkeys are hot, grouse are drummin, Roosters are too.  Tweety birds are migrating through, supposed to be low wind, and pushing the 70's.    I'm going to choose to stay home to be with my family, and its a big soccer weekend, but that is just as good.     Life is GOOD in Washington.   

Offline washingtonmuley

  • Trade Count: (+3)
  • Sourdough
  • *****
  • Join Date: Oct 2007
  • Posts: 1809
  • Location: in the woods or on the water.
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #13 on: April 25, 2008, 10:57:17 AM »
I'm starting to get excited. I'm heading down to southern Oregon on Wednesday for some big Toms. It sounds like my timing should be about right. Good Luck to all.

Offline jackelope

  • Administrator
  • Trade Count: (+27)
  • Legend
  • *****
  • Join Date: Mar 2007
  • Posts: 49015
  • Location: Duvall, WA
  • Groups: jackelope
Re: Birds are HOT!
« Reply #14 on: April 25, 2008, 02:38:27 PM »
it's a good thing i have to work this weekend.  :bash:  :bash:  :bash:  :bash:
i might have been able to actually get out and have fun somewhere with a shotgun slung over my shoulder.
:fire.:

" In today's instant gratification society, more and more pressure revolves around success and the measurement of one's prowess as a hunter by inches on a score chart or field photos produced on social media. Don't fall into the trap. Hunting is-and always will be- about the hunt, the adventure, the views, and time spent with close friends and family. " Ryan Hatfield

My posts, opinions and statements do not represent those of this forum

 


* Advertisement

* Recent Topics

Let’s see your best Washington buck by high_hunter
[Yesterday at 10:31:08 PM]


Bearpaw Season - Spring 2024 by actionshooter
[Yesterday at 09:43:51 PM]


Walked a cougar down by MADMAX
[Yesterday at 08:31:53 PM]


Which 12” boat trailer tires? by timberhunter
[Yesterday at 08:22:18 PM]


Lowest power 22 round? by JakeLand
[Yesterday at 08:06:13 PM]


1x scopes vs open sights by JakeLand
[Yesterday at 07:29:35 PM]


Long Beach Clamming Tides by Encore 280
[Yesterday at 05:16:00 PM]


WTS Suppressors I Can Get by dreadi
[Yesterday at 03:30:33 PM]


SB 5444 signed by Inslee on 03/26 Takes Effect on 06/06/24 by Longfield1
[Yesterday at 03:27:51 PM]


Straight on by kentrek
[Yesterday at 03:04:53 PM]


2024-2026 Hunting Season Proposals by trophyhunt
[Yesterday at 01:51:40 PM]

SimplePortal 2.3.7 © 2008-2024, SimplePortal