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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: jasnt on April 15, 2023, 04:02:07 AM
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Good luck everyone
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Got the old boys their birds. One is 81 and the other is 79.
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Opening morning double
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Congrats, you're lucky to have a good hunting mentor. :chuckle: I'm glad the plan we discussed worked to perfection.
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Called this nice 2 year old in for a friend this morning
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Good looking birds.
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410 laying the hammer down. Last night scouted and put a gobber to roost. Got in way early and set up about 80 yards from them. They had 2 routes to go. Two gobblers chose to take the other way. So circled them and had one walk a game trail to 15 yards. Smoked it within the first hour of season. Then got onto 3 different gobblers mid morning. Kept working around on them and couldn't get into the position I wanted. So left them knowing they would stay there. Checked out more new country. Saw some different areas that had a lot of pressure so headed back to where I left the gobblers. Knowing right where I wanted to set up. Got into position. And within 20 minutes 2 gobblers going off. Within a couple hundred yards. One on each side of me. A few calls and it was game on. Watched a nice tom strut all the way to 28 yards. But had a slight technical difficulty with a branch grabbing the gun. Didn't want to spook the bird by moving so played the patience game. He walked over the edge. Cleared the obstruction. Hit the call 5 minutes later he popped up in tall grass at 23 yards. Rest is history. 2 nice toms opening day and tagged out ready to go home. First spring season for me. And all on public ground. Feel very blessed to have the success I did. These birds were harvested with #9 tss 3 inch hand loads. They worked great. CZ Drake over under. Improved cylinder choke and modified.
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Opening morning, runnin & gunnin…
Heard these guys gobblin around 9 and got to within 80 yards…
They had a couple hens with them so they were struttin and spittin…
Called the whole group to within 30 yards before having a clean shot. Dumped the tom in his tracks and the group scattered. Hit them with a few yelps and eveyone settled down… Threw out a few more yelps and the jake gobbled back, turned around and started coming my way… 15 yards out and laid him down…
Now I’m the designated caller for my son…
😀👍
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Our 4 year old got to go on her first turkey hunt and we managed to double up, she was pretty excited.
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Congrats everyone. Being on call for work on the opener has me with a serious case of FOMO :chuckle:
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Opening day Eastern!
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Son got his today!
Decent bird.
Going in the frying pan baby.
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Well done on the Eastern.
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Opening day Eastern!
Wow, what a trophy!!
Got the hard one done early.
What a beautiful bird.
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My one and only mentor hunt for the year. Merriam jake same property that a bearded hen was shot last spring with same colors.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230416/5adb2df8ca480e1304b1f186400592f9.jpg)
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Got the old boys their birds. One is 81 and the other is 79.
Great work.
Their smiles say it all. :chuckle:
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My one and only mentor hunt for the year. Merriam jake same property that a bearded hen was shot last spring with same colors.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230416/5adb2df8ca480e1304b1f186400592f9.jpg)
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Fantastic!!!!!
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Nice birds everyone. Great Eastern Tye.
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Opening day Eastern!
That is awesome, nice work!
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My one and only mentor hunt for the year. Merriam jake same property that a bearded hen was shot last spring with same colors.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230416/5adb2df8ca480e1304b1f186400592f9.jpg)
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Good on you, super cool bird, congrats to the hunter!
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I was fortunate to get a double this morning!
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My one and only mentor hunt for the year. Merriam jake same property that a bearded hen was shot last spring with same colors.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230416/5adb2df8ca480e1304b1f186400592f9.jpg)
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Very nice... great job!
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Awesome
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Beautiful day today. Still plenty of birds around
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From the youth season. PathfinderJR's bird. Best tom yet. Beard just a hair over 11" and 1 1/2" spurs.
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Great job everyone!!! Nice birds!
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Pathfinder Jr harvested one heck of a bird. Congrats to the young man!
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Got an elusive Okanogan bird... only saw 6 in 3 days, got this one in the afternoon on Saturday.
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Opening day Eastern!
Wow, what a trophy!!
Got the hard one done early.
What a beautiful bird.
My thoughts exactly
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Pathfinder Jr harvested one heck of a bird. Congrats to the young man!
Thanks. He's pretty tickled pink. Probably should have taken that one to the taxidermist... :P
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Called them in separately from private to public 30 minutes apart. One died in a mud puddle what a mess.
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Opening morning for me was today. Got a little lucky.
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Only took me an unbelievable number of attempts but I finally got one! 9” beard and 22lbs! 1” spurs! Not huge but I’m proud! (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230420/29fbebc461014f6757cae1910d604032.jpg)
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Only took me an unbelievable number of attempts but I finally got one! 9” beard and 22lbs! 1” spurs! Not huge but I’m proud! (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230420/29fbebc461014f6757cae1910d604032.jpg)
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Congrats Hillslick! Is that a westside bird?
Congrats to all! Looks like a lot of doubles so far! :tup:
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Only took me an unbelievable number of attempts but I finally got one! 9” beard and 22lbs! 1” spurs! Not huge but I’m proud! (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230420/29fbebc461014f6757cae1910d604032.jpg)
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Congrats Hillslick! Is that a westside bird?
Congrats to all! Looks like a lot of doubles so far! :tup:
Yes sir! :-)
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Only took me an unbelievable number of attempts but I finally got one! 9” beard and 22lbs! 1” spurs! Not huge but I’m proud! (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230420/29fbebc461014f6757cae1910d604032.jpg)
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Congrats Hillslick! Is that a westside bird?
Congrats to all! Looks like a lot of doubles so far! :tup:
Yes sir! :-)
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Always crazy to see Westside birds taken. No easy task! Congrats
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Thank you! Hell only took me 8 years



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Dang that is one nice bird. So there are eastern turkeys out there somewhere on the westside. Congrats! -253sg
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Got my first ever turkey today!!! So fun
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Nice work. You're hooked now
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Got my first ever turkey today!!! So fun
Congrats!
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I am hooked!! My son in law came sooo close today as well.
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First Turk... stuck to my roots and made schnitzel... sehr gut!!!
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Harper kept her cool and made a great shot this afternoon when a group of turkeys snuck in behind us. They announced their presence with a gobble from ten yards behind us we about jumped out of our boots! They moved off about 20 yards behind some brush but a purr and a few yelps had them strutting and circling around into the open. Harper passed on a few marginal shots and the waiting paid off when this bird presented her with a good 25yard shot :tup:
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Great job Harper , congrats
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Opening morning did some walking and calling until I found this guy about four miles from where we parked. Called him in for a 20 yard shot.
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Got this on the 17th. Now I only need a Rio and Eastern to complete my slam.... Only..... ha!
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Lightweight 19.6lb, 9.25" beard, large fan for his body
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Great looking bird! I never realized how cool their feathers are, was a shame to leave all those beautiful feathers. Might have to do a full mount on my next one.
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First bird of the year
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4/17 @ 5:30 PM in Northern Idaho. Ambushed him in a saddle on his way to roost, about 200 yards from his roost
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Turkey #1 and #2 last week!
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Nice birds everyone!!! Congrats Harper!!!
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I’m finally on the board(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230428/6a3003438ad890038e3df1699acd1640.jpg)
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Finally on the score board. Weather has made a huge difference in their willingness to talk
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Nice birds everyone!!! Congrats Harper!!!
Fred, Thanks for the pointers on how to get it done BTW :tup:
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Yesterday was my opening day
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And today's bird
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On the board. BTW; I didn't shoot out his tail. He was like that when I found him. I think his gobble was writing checks his stubby little spurs couldn't cash... :chuckle: :chuckle:
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First spring bird in my 5th year of trying. Changed strategy on where to hunt and it paid off. Birds were very quiet and we bumped a ton of hens with no toms around. Finally found some toms with vocal hens and was able to bring this guy in by pissing off his girlfriends. Had to hike him out about 4 miles to get to buddies with a camera so he's a little beat up.
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Took my 6 year old son out for his first hunt. Even with him not being able to sit still we were able to get one bird down!
I think he is hooked!
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took this fella coming over the rise in the early morning hunt
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Bird number 2 this morning (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230513/f3d02cfd140fcc8d5b9442de618a3a9e.jpg)
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I'll post pics later but my 11 yr old son and I doubled up, 2 toms yesterday at noon. They walked up together at 33 yards over a knoll. I was waiting and waiting for my son to shoot and I finally got impatient as they were getting leary.. i shot then my son shot just after me...pretty special day.Thanks to my buddy for his expertise calling!
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Finally put the fishing poles down long enough to take a hike!!
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Finally found a bird willing to work.
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Got my first and second ever turkeys this year! How blessing it truly was. Good friends took me out and it only took 3 days to fill both tags. A addiction has now started :chuckle: I got experience mountain bird hunting and farm field hunting. So I got a taste of both hunting styles!
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Put together a quick video of the footage from my May 1st bird. Jump to 3:20 if you want to skip all the waiting and watching the birds come in and mill around. Clipped the camera on my vest last second so my arm blocks a lot of the action. Just happy to have the footage at all, filming was not the main priority!
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Well we were finally able to get our daughter out for a hunt this weekend because it's been hectic between school, sports and work. My wife also decided to mentor 4 other new women hunters this year on turkey hunts, which took up several weekends. At 10 years old she was cool calm and collected rolling this guy at 22 yards. This is her first harvest and I'm so proud of my ladies for getting it done this morning.
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Another pic
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Those are some great pics! Congrats! :tup:
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Here is one of the ladies together.
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And one of my wife with her turkey.
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Great Season -
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Great birds everyone!
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@yelp - is that a single shot 410? Looks like it would be awesome to pack around in the woods.
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@yelp - is that a single shot 410? Looks like it would be awesome to pack around in the woods.
I bought my son a rossi tuffy turkey in .410 and paired with TSS its a bad little unit. At 3lb it's like you aren't even carrying anything. He rolled his second bird on Sunday at 40 yards. Stone dead.
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@yelp - is that a single shot 410? Looks like it would be awesome to pack around in the woods.
I bought my son a rossi tuffy turkey in .410 and paired with TSS its a bad little unit. At 3lb it's like you aren't even carrying anything. He rolled his second bird on Sunday at 40 yards. Stone dead.
That sounds like an awesome setup
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@yelp - is that a single shot 410? Looks like it would be awesome to pack around in the woods.
I bought my son a rossi tuffy turkey in .410 and paired with TSS its a bad little unit. At 3lb it's like you aren't even carrying anything. He rolled his second bird on Sunday at 40 yards. Stone dead.
410 and tss is a deadly combo and very underated. A blast to carry in the woods. Congrats on your son filling the tag.
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@yelp - is that a single shot 410? Looks like it would be awesome to pack around in the woods.
Yes .410 Stevens SS extra full choke 3" 9.5 TSS with a Truglos Red/Green dot scope. Been a great gun for last three years.
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My son's .410 with tasco red dot
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My son's .410 with tasco red dot
Great pic :tup:
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We had a great season.
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My final bird and a buddies out of Spokane County. All my birds taken with .410 this year. My son's two birds also.
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Number 8 in 10 yrs