Awesome Weekend

[Gobble Doc]

I had a great weekend turkey hunting.  I took my father in law, "gramps".  He has never been turkey hunting before and I have tried numerous times but only succeeded during the fall season.  We hit it hard.  Finally on Saturday we set up and decided to use extreme patience.  I was on the slate call and with the decoy out we sat, and sat, and sat.  Eventually a coyotee came, sniffed the decoy, and left.  So we sat some more.  Then as I did a yelp a loud gobble came from where gramps was sitting.  About 15 minutes later I hear a boom and he says, "bird down".  He got a good one.  Special thanks again to Machias and JKEENE33 for their wisdom in helping make this happen for gramps.   

[Wacenturion]

Congratulations....nice bird.

[JKEEN33]

Great looking bird. Did it come out of one of the areas I gave you to try? A lot different than a fall bird isn't it? Once you get one to gobble you're pretty much hooked. I recommend giving up the job and spending the 10.5 months of the off season up to practicing your calls and dreaming about birds. Congratulations!

[Heartsblood]

Nice! Congrats. Patience pays off again.

I recommend giving up the job and spending the 10.5 months of the off season up to practicing your calls and dreaming about birds.

  Heck. Yes.
I like this line of thinking!

[Seatown5]

so just how long is wait and wait and wait.  I still cant sit for more than about an hour and a half without hearing a gobble or falling asleep

[Gobble Doc]

Hi Seatown,

We were sitting for 3-4 hours before he pulled the trigger.  Once in awhile we would hear a gobble but not many.  I also decided to really scale back my calling to a bare minimum.  A yelp or a few cuts just once in awhile.  Then there were all the ticks that I forgot to mention.  I pulled 2 out of my head, one out of my neck, and one out of my arm that somehow got between my gloves and shirt.  Next time I'm going to coat myself with deet or something?  I hate the ticks. 

[saylean]

I wonder if thermacell works for ticks?

Good lookin bird! Congrats!

[bowsandhose]

nice bird grats

[NWBREW]

I wonder if thermacell works for ticks?

 

 



Never thought about that......would be worth it's wait in gold if it did.   Good looking bird...Congrats to gramps.

[turkeydancer]

Cabelas has tick spray in a can (Diazinon I believe) that works great even through several washing of your clothes.  Spray hat, gloves, face mask, shirt, pants, boots, etc .... especially good at all openings (like waist, gloves to shirt, neck, pant legs at boots, etc.).   It only takes one tick and the possibility of a good infection to ruin a good hunt or your day.  I usually buy 3 to 4 cans each year to avoid that.

[Gobble Doc]

It looks like Permethrin may be the way to go. 

[BoneCollector1]

Awesome bird!!!  Amazing patience!!!  What part of the state were you in?

[Gobble Doc]

GMU 117

[BPturkeys]

Sawyers "clothing" works, works, works!!! It is, by the way Permethrin, if I am not mistaken. I get it at Cabelas.

[KopperBuck]

Nice bird!

Definitely been a banner year for ticks, at least that I've seen. Surprisingly I haven't had any attach yet, but have picked several off. Between the two dogs we grabbed almost 50 one evening, not even kidding. And the coyote I shot... oh man...