and so the 2022 turkey adventure begins!

[birddogdad]

and so it begins! 600 miles + 10 hour drive after work tonight to NORCAL. hope to have same success as last year in this first state adventure. Will post to share late next week! Weather looks dry and 80ish by day! Hope i can stay out of that poison oak i got in last year there!

[hunter399]

I've been getting ready all day today .
To take the kid on the youth opener .
Going through hunting bags,day packs.
Calls,decoy, just basic stuff.
Getting a little worked up.
Maybe a little evening drive ,see if we can see any turkey before dark. Too put us in the strike zone.

[Pathfinder101]

Little Pathfinder is counting the hours (Can't go in the morning because he has school, but he has plans for after baseball practice tomorrow...).
Planning to go set up the ground blind tonight and watch em go to roost...

[huntnfmly]

Good luck to all
We are leaving tomorrow for grandsons first real hunt with bear paw
He was one of the winners of the youth hunt
Cannot wait

[MtnMuley]

You'll have a blast over at Dale's.

[huntnfmly]

You'll have a blast over at Dale's.

Looking forward to it😁👍

[hunter399]

We did see some turkey before dark.
A group of jakes or toms ,three hen,two other turkey.
New road that I had seen on onx ,but thought it was gated.
Was all open road ,drove it a few miles before dark and seen two turkey ,one was a red head tom.
I tried calling at him with no response,about 3000 ft elevation. I'm just hoping that turkey up that high are responsive .  surprisingly not a lot of mud pretty dry roads.
So we are gonna head up a o dark thirty,and see if turkey isn't a little better in the mourning.
🙏

[huntnfmly]

We did see some turkey before dark.
A group of jakes or toms ,three hen,two other turkey.
New road that I had seen on onx ,but thought it was gated.
Was all open road ,drove it a few miles before dark and seen two turkey ,one was a red head tom.
I tried calling at him with no response,about 3000 ft elevation. I'm just hoping that turkey up that high are responsive .  surprisingly not a lot of mud pretty dry roads.
So we are gonna head up a o dark thirty,and see if turkey isn't a little better in the mourning.
🙏

👍

[Pathfinder101]

We roosted about 60 birds last night (not on the property we have permission on, but the neighboring one-we usually have to call them about 500 yards from where they fly down).  Can't hunt this morning, I'm a teacher and LP is a student, but if we have time after baseball practice tonight we may give it a go.  Either way, tomorrow morning we'll be out there for sure...

[northwesthunter84]

Good luck everyone.

[DIron]

and so it begins! 600 miles + 10 hour drive after work tonight to NORCAL. hope to have same success as last year in this first state adventure. Will post to share late next week! Weather looks dry and 80ish by day! Hope i can stay out of that poison oak i got in last year there!

Awesome to hear.... I am looking forward to reading on about your undoubted success.

[DIron]

Good luck to all
We are leaving tomorrow for grandsons first real hunt with bear paw
He was one of the winners of the youth hunt
Cannot wait

How awesome is that. how'd he do?

[DIron]

We roosted about 60 birds last night (not on the property we have permission on, but the neighboring one-we usually have to call them about 500 yards from where they fly down).  Can't hunt this morning, I'm a teacher and LP is a student, but if we have time after baseball practice tonight we may give it a go.  Either way, tomorrow morning we'll be out there for sure...

How did LP do? BTW, fellow teacher here.

[birddogdad]

First trip report - Northern CA, Redding area. Well, the drive took about 10 hours, did a red eye overnight arriving just at first light. Of course i was on fumes but managed to get out for daybreak to find silence. Felt a bit deflated. This area produced well in 2021 for me. First day i never had a tom respond. UGG!  Second day i woke to strong windy conditions, again wondering what i was into here. Most of the day spent moving and trying to gain contact on a tom. Shooting ends at 5 pm in CA so i napped until eve and managed to find a bird with shock call. Game on! Day 3 again was a bit on the windy side but the bird i located was on a steep side out of wind. Managed to draw him in and finally harvest a bird! That afternoon, things picked up. Again 1 bird per day limit had me shut down only to locate for day 4. I awoke to 30's , front blowing in a gale and the birds were completely shut down, this ended by noon and i located a bird with only 15 minutes of shooting left staying outside of the bubble, no chance. This was my last day and it was a bust, just not a great weather pattern and birds not being hot yet. The morning i left i woke to near perfect conditions but had no way to stay longer. So, end result was a nice Rio but i think this time i was about a week early on this area or weather had shut things off before i got there. Oh, one other note, i got poison oak last year in the area, had not really payed attention, this year i did and it was physically impossible to stay out of it if you stepped in woods anywhere! Probably will work a new state next year and pass on this area. Stop #2 next!

[DIron]

That looks like a brute, birddogdad. Has to be over 15 lbs.