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Tough Turkeys
nwhuntinman:
--- Quote from: nwwanderer on May 10, 2025, 01:37:14 PM ---Thought this was going to be a cooking thread!! Tough here too, mighty quiet
Funny I guess I might have thought that too.
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nwhuntinman:
--- Quote from: Wanttohuntmore on May 11, 2025, 09:13:16 AM ---Definitely harder this year. 28 years of hunting them and not seeing as much. Curious where you have Easterns and Merriam's? I thought Easterns were only on the west side of the state and Merriam's over the crest? Or is there a mixing in the Klick? Been trying to get the slam after meeting a few that have done it.
I hunt the north central part of state. They are defiantly different. I have hunted the Easterns in Missouri and their colors are different as you can see on the tips. Here is the Merriam in this pic. The pic I put up at the start of this story is Eastern. Now I could be wrong because I have never asked, but there is no doubt these are different birds as far as color variations.
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nwwanderer:
There you go!!! Thanks
baldopepper:
--- Quote from: nwhuntinman on May 09, 2025, 12:54:37 PM ---Well we are half way done with Spring turkey. I've been after it since it opened (weekends) and it has been a little different this year. Not as verbal unless I get in there zone. I don't have any private to hunt so I hunt the national forest. So hike all day looking and listening.. I have killed my two birds as well as called in several in for buddies this year. Just wondering if I was the only one that had to work extra hard this year. There is a good even mix of Easterns and Miriam's where I hunt and I got all Easterns and buddies killed Miriam's.
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Showed the pic to a hard core bird guy and he says first bird is a rio. I'm no expert, but he even knows the scientific name of all the birds he sees so I tend to believe him.(He's also an avid turkey hunter, goes all over chasing em)
brokentrail:
Just back from a week over in the Northeast corner with my oldest son. We were able to fill two tags a piece but it definitely took a lot of time/work/effort to do so. Was still a great trip, even if we hadn't been successful, I just love to hear those birds gobble... If I found a pocket of birds on the west side, I wouldn't even hunt them, I would just go there to drink coffee in the morning and listen to them do their thing.
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