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Title: Good luck at the spring dance tomorrow !
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on April 14, 2016, 09:47:01 PM: I am pumped ..have not went in a couple years due to work but I am excited about getting my wife on one for the 1st time ..She can kill deer so I figured I best give her a shot at feathers .. She learned that you can actually miss with a shotgun but after hours of practice I think she can get er done ... Good luck ! Can not wait to hear the stories when I get back ! Be safe and always be sure of your target !
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Post by: Jester052 on April 14, 2016, 09:51:24 PM: Leaving tomorrow after school! 330 can't come soon enough! Good luck everyone! :IBCOOL: :hunter:
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Post by: cowboycraig on April 14, 2016, 10:12:45 PM: Getting up rudely early to hit it. Looking forward.
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Post by: Mfowl on April 14, 2016, 10:36:04 PM: Good luck turkey hunters! This will be my 3rd consecutive opener I have missed, painful! I hope they're running to the calls for ya! :tup:
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Post by: GrampasGuns on April 14, 2016, 11:45:33 PM: Yeee haw!!

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Post by: WoolyRunner on April 15, 2016, 04:23:38 AM: What part of the state you guys heading for?.. ill be headed for Klickitat at around 1600 today. Cant wait.
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Post by: Buckewe on April 15, 2016, 10:27:37 AM: I'm heading out after work for 133 hope the birds want to play.
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Post by: turkeydancer on April 15, 2016, 10:56:15 AM: :bash: 2nd year I've missed because of the J.O.B. :yike:
Heading to San Diego for 3-1/2 months, but I'm retiring Mar 1, 2016 so no more missing my passion :drool: ....

Good luck everyone .... :tup:
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Post by: kevinlisa06 on April 15, 2016, 12:54:57 PM: Good luck everyone! Heading out May 5th can't wait!
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Post by: TheSkyBuster on April 15, 2016, 06:36:02 PM: Good luck BH45. Hope to see some pics of a Tom or 2
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Post by: PA BEN on April 16, 2016, 06:55:46 AM: not a lot of Toms taking a dirt nap yet???? :dunno:
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Post by: cowboycraig on April 16, 2016, 04:11:01 PM: In Davenport. Not getting a lot of action, but the birds are here. Early morning gobbles in reply to welps.

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Post by: Craig on April 16, 2016, 09:27:09 PM: wasn't easy but sealed the deal this afternoon.
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Post by: kodiak 907 on April 17, 2016, 11:00:45 PM: We roosted a few.
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Post by: kevinlisa06 on April 18, 2016, 11:29:47 AM: NICE!
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Post by: elkboy on April 18, 2016, 12:27:59 PM: Thanks to a very good friend of mine with family up in northeastern part of the state, I was lucky to take the first turkey of my life- a jake, 13 pounds, taken at 20 yards with an SKB 12 gauge (Federal "Mag-Shok" turkey load- nice shoulder punisher!). Our "blind" was a young ponderosa pine with dense ground-level branches. We had sat the morning in another location, watching 50-60 turkeys fly down at dawn from old ponderosas, the toms strutting and fanning. The flocks came close, but not quite close enough. Mid-morning we moved to a little flat right above a creek and placed a "wimpy jake" decoy where it could be seen from the creek bottom. We called lightly with a box call, and about 30 minutes later two jakes, one with a visible beard, showed up on the rim of the flat. "Take the one on the right- that's a good first bird," whispered my buddy. At the shot, the jake dropped immediately. And I was stoked!

My buddy shot a mature tom around 6 pm, when all the birds were returning down the creek corridor to the roost trees.

It was such exciting hunting- the gobbles, the purrs, yelps, and even the alarm putts when we were busted. All morning and afternoon we could hear and see birds, making it so different from deer hunting. And I never appreciate how exciting it could be to hear a gobbler coming from hundreds of yards away, closer, and closer, until the gobble sounded like it was right next to you!

Not sure I can handle one more addiction, but I guess I have little choice now!
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on April 18, 2016, 06:18:15 PM: Quote from: kodiak 907 on April 17, 2016, 11:00:45 PM
We roosted a few.
Hahaha that's why I had so much trouble !! You harvested them all !! lmao !