Where are all the turkey hunters ?

[BOWHUNTER45]

we covered alot of ground this weekend and there are birds to be shot but you will have to work for them ...We never saw another hunter again  It was like we owned the whole freakin area ...it was dead ...but THE BEAR ..Well lets say they where thick ...if we had bear tags we would stacked them like cord wood  over all I accomplished what I set out to do and that was to get a couple friends some birds .....we had a blast so all went well for them ...

[turkeydancer]

 
Sorry John - I limited within 4 minutes of legal shoot on opening day ... would have loved to have another tag (or two or three or ...), but the state perfers that I wait until fall and then harvest hens only ...
    
Anyway, as long as you're having fun ... 

[BOWHUNTER45]

    it was like the world ended over there....no one anywhere ....hunters I mean ...

[shoot-em-dead]

I would have loved to go but with the cost of fuel and tags  watcha gonna do

[BOWHUNTER45]

Fuel  yeah this trip was $ 450 in gas  buddy of mine has a big jacked up expedition and it ate us alive  so here we have a $ 450 turkey  Now for those who have no Idea what money it takes to go and enjoy a weekend , here ya go ! all put hunters do not dump any money into the economy ....do they now 

[turkeydancer]

 I figure 50 gallons at an additional 40 cents/gal is about $20 more ... hhhmmmmm, nope that isn't keeping me home.
   
Besides when I die, I can't take any money with me so I might as well enjoy it now.  And I can never get the special memories and time with good friends back if I don't go create them ....
 
Nice pics of the bears and your friend with a nice tom .... in my book, priceless ....

[Wacenturion]

license and tags...........$$

camp food and drink.....$

Expedition gas..............$450

Photo of you and your buddy with Gobbler.......PRICELESS

[MerriamMagician]

Luckily for me, I was able to take my car instead of a truck for all my trips this season. Works out way better, each trip is under $80 for gas. Where were you hunting bowhunter to see all the bears?? I hunt around Gifford and Cedonia and did see some bear sign and stumbled across two dens but didnt see any bears.

[kevinlisa06]

I was out in the field chasin birds again with no luck this trip out them darn hens just kept pullin the toms back didn't matter and then spend the rest of their day on private land.

[turkeydancer]

Try something different like a gobble call and/or a full strutter ... if it doesn't get him in it very well may get the hens in and he'll be right behind ...
 

[kevinlisa06]

Yep had the gobble shaker out as well that didn't do any good. Its ok I accomplished what I wanted to do this year and that was get my wife her first spring long beard and spend time in the woods with her. So I'm very happy to eat tag soup this season. Lots of great memories this season!

[turkeydancer]

 
I use a tube call for the gobbles (just say "tucka..tucka...tucka..." extremely fast).

I also do turkey fights with good results using a couple of push pulls for aggrevated purrs while cutting on a month diaphragm and throwing in some hat slapping simulating the beating wings.

How about putting a deer decoy out with your dekes (ever notice that the thunderchickens will usually only come out after the deer are out and they are the first back into the woods when the whitetails start snorting).

Think outside the box ... you have nothing to lose ... I am a firm believer that if you do the same thing over and over, you can't expect there will be any different results.
 
Anyway, good luck .... glad to see you've made the wife happy ... because if the wife isn't happy, no one is. 

[BOWHUNTER45]

Yeah thats right AL ... sometimes those what seem dumb things will make the whole difference in bagging or not bagging ....But like I always say ....the peacock call always works for me and it did this time too !!  right at dark ...Gobble Gobble Gobble

[turkeydancer]

I agree ... peacock call is my favorite locator too and works great with both Merriams and Rios.

[Chesapeake]

Finally got my #1 bird this morning at 10. Worked on him from daylight till then. Tried every call in my pack.
Called in a bobcat about 8 and saw 1 cinnamon bear and a black sow with 2 little cubs. Was a fun morning.