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1st off, Sorry you guys won't be getting those nice new guns but you can continue dreaming!
I went out Saturday morning turkey hunting. I no sooner get out of my SUV and here a turkey gobble across the street so I hurry to get ready then heard it gobble again and one more time followed by BOOOOOOOOOOMMM! Well someone got lucky so I headed 1/2 mile to my spot in a open field bordered by woods and fencerows. I set up in the fence row and call a few times nothing but I sat there regardless after about an hour of silence I hear a lone gobble off in the distance so I call he gobbles and we do this for quite awhile as he's making his way to me. All the while I'm sitting in a fence row bordering land I can hunt and land I can't. So about 30-45 min. in the turkey is just across the field from getting ready to make his appearance for the 1st time and I make one last call and he makes one last gobble and then everything went to HELL he gobbled and BOOOOOOMMMMM! I just about cried! I called this turkey into another hunter that had been sitting behind me across the field from me and he shoots what was going to be my turkey! 4 years turkey hunting without any success many of close calls but no success and as I'm about too, for what I see bag my 1st turkey my dreams once again come to a crashing halt!
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Dcast, Look me up next Spring and I'll put you on birds where nobody else will be around.
Also, while turkey hunting, I only shoot birds I call in and not birds that randomly walk by. The fun is the calling part.
Yes, I can't imagine shooting a gobbler someone else is calling in. But, of course, he might not have known you were calling if you're real good at it. Reminds me of the jerk two years ago who hid in the trees between the river and my field deeks to shoot at the geese coming in thirty yards above the treetops. Hollering at the clown did no good so I finally went over and humiliated the old goat in front of his two grandkids. I usually don't hunt the weekends to avoid the slob hunters as much as possible but that day was the first anniversary of my wife's death. I had in fact been out goose hunting when the car accident happened.
At least you're in the thick of it Dcast. That's better than nothing.
Buckhunter, If you're serious about the offer consider me in! The close calls seem to be getting more frequent yet never pan out on my behalf! I had a tom three weeks ago 20yds away from me in southern Ohio as I came over a crest in the hill as myself and friend were walking to where we were going to set up. It had its head down facing the other way so I didn't shoot not knowing the sex, by the time I got my friends attention to stop the tom spotted him and ran for cover.
OH, where I live and hunt in NW Ohio the turkey are few and far between, however a couple of my hunting spots have turkey in the area. Not ever being taught how to hunt turkey and/or call I think my calling is good enough for the turkey in my area yet bad enough for a fellow hunter to notice my bad squeaking (here and there) on my slate and the occasional squeak with my diaphragm. He/she no doubt new I was there, I had to walk across an elevated field and they were less than a hundred yards from me. They probably heard my stomach gurgling from Friday night hot wings and a couple draft beers, heck my stomach and other gaseous noises were louder than my calling at times! I'm not upset at them, I'm more depressed that it was going to be my 1st actual chance because that bird was coming in on a string so to speak, he was closing the distance at a very good rate and I no doubt know he would have came directly to me. It is what it is the other hunter got lucky and my lack of luck continues.
On the bright side of all this I remember 1st starting deer hunting. I started when I was 19 I am now 31 my first year I passed up every doe that walked by waiting for my trophy buck. The 1st year I didn't take a deer, my 2nd year I decide I would take a doe and missed 2 different deer, my 3rd year I finally connected with a doe and that feeling was so great I haven't looked back since. Every year since I realized a doe is a trophy, I have filled the freezer and fed my family for a year. I know my time will come for a gobbler so I'll continue going out and trying until that one day comes. I should mention I have not yet taken a buck to even sneeze at, and I'm just as happy as I have ever been.
Dcast, your story of hunters bagging turkeys in your area, reminds me of those horrible days from the past, when I hunted on public land.
The only species I will hunt on public land today is the black bear and I walk in the woods deep to get away from the masses.
to have not bagged a turkey in 4 years you must be doing something very wrong!!!!! as far as having a turkey shot out from under you, though not out of the realm of possibility, i dont think its all to common, thats just real chitty luck!! ive never actually seen another turkey hunter in my neck of the woods in MI. lots of birds, and no hunters.
Dcast, I'll bet most people on this site have had similar days. Keep at it, you'll nail your gobbler one of these days.
Scratchgolf & Gary, I live in a semi rural area, with a patch work of farms that are owned by different people. It's not like in the Midwest where there are a few houses over vast swaths of land, it's more like everyone owns 10,25,30,50 acres here and there. This makes hunting very difficult and causes a lot of grief among hunters. It isn't as bad as public land but close. Many times you'll be hunting within earshot of other hunters and it's the luck of the draw which way the deer go. I have one spot that is 100 acres of farm land with two fence rows dividing the land of three different owners, I sit right on the corner of 3 of those properties sometimes the deer walk on the side I'm allowed and other times they do not. The one good thing I have on my side here is the deer always come right down that fencerow. I have taken deer every year for the last 6 years there.
My hunting partner and I will sometimes switch off calling turkeys for each other. I was relatively new to hunting and my hunting partner would call turkeys in for me, but sometimes now call them for him if he asks because I have a mouth call and he doesn't use one. That situation is understandable to me. If somebody asked you to call in a turkey for them, I see no problem with that! But what that guy did sounds wrong to me. Setting up on a turkey that another is calling in? That just doesn't seem right to me. Sorry to hear about your bird! Hope you get one soon!
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Dcast, Look me up next Spring and I'll put you on birds where nobody else will be around.
Also, while turkey hunting, I only shoot birds I call in and not birds that randomly walk by. The fun is the calling part.
Yes, I can't imagine shooting a gobbler someone else is calling in. But, of course, he might not have known you were calling if you're real good at it. Reminds me of the jerk two years ago who hid in the trees between the river and my field deeks to shoot at the geese coming in thirty yards above the treetops. Hollering at the clown did no good so I finally went over and humiliated the old goat in front of his two grandkids. I usually don't hunt the weekends to avoid the slob hunters as much as possible but that day was the first anniversary of my wife's death. I had in fact been out goose hunting when the car accident happened.
At least you're in the thick of it Dcast. That's better than nothing.
Buckhunter, If you're serious about the offer consider me in! The close calls seem to be getting more frequent yet never pan out on my behalf! I had a tom three weeks ago 20yds away from me in southern Ohio as I came over a crest in the hill as myself and friend were walking to where we were going to set up. It had its head down facing the other way so I didn't shoot not knowing the sex, by the time I got my friends attention to stop the tom spotted him and ran for cover.
OH, where I live and hunt in NW Ohio the turkey are few and far between, however a couple of my hunting spots have turkey in the area. Not ever being taught how to hunt turkey and/or call I think my calling is good enough for the turkey in my area yet bad enough for a fellow hunter to notice my bad squeaking (here and there) on my slate and the occasional squeak with my diaphragm. He/she no doubt new I was there, I had to walk across an elevated field and they were less than a hundred yards from me. They probably heard my stomach gurgling from Friday night hot wings and a couple draft beers, heck my stomach and other gaseous noises were louder than my calling at times! I'm not upset at them, I'm more depressed that it was going to be my 1st actual chance because that bird was coming in on a string so to speak, he was closing the distance at a very good rate and I no doubt know he would have came directly to me. It is what it is the other hunter got lucky and my lack of luck continues.
On the bright side of all this I remember 1st starting deer hunting. I started when I was 19 I am now 31 my first year I passed up every doe that walked by waiting for my trophy buck. The 1st year I didn't take a deer, my 2nd year I decide I would take a doe and missed 2 different deer, my 3rd year I finally connected with a doe and that feeling was so great I haven't looked back since. Every year since I realized a doe is a trophy, I have filled the freezer and fed my family for a year. I know my time will come for a gobbler so I'll continue going out and trying until that one day comes. I should mention I have not yet taken a buck to even sneeze at, and I'm just as happy as I have ever been.
Dcast, your story of hunters bagging turkeys in your area, reminds me of those horrible days from the past, when I hunted on public land.
The only species I will hunt on public land today is the black bear and I walk in the woods deep to get away from the masses.
Dcast, I'll bet most people on this site have had similar days. Keep at it, you'll nail your gobbler one of these days.
Scratchgolf & Gary, I live in a semi rural area, with a patch work of farms that are owned by different people. It's not like in the Midwest where there are a few houses over vast swaths of land, it's more like everyone owns 10,25,30,50 acres here and there. This makes hunting very difficult and causes a lot of grief among hunters. It isn't as bad as public land but close. Many times you'll be hunting within earshot of other hunters and it's the luck of the draw which way the deer go. I have one spot that is 100 acres of farm land with two fence rows dividing the land of three different owners, I sit right on the corner of 3 of those properties sometimes the deer walk on the side I'm allowed and other times they do not. The one good thing I have on my side here is the deer always come right down that fencerow. I have taken deer every year for the last 6 years there.
My hunting partner and I will sometimes switch off calling turkeys for each other. I was relatively new to hunting and my hunting partner would call turkeys in for me, but sometimes now call them for him if he asks because I have a mouth call and he doesn't use one. That situation is understandable to me. If somebody asked you to call in a turkey for them, I see no problem with that! But what that guy did sounds wrong to me. Setting up on a turkey that another is calling in? That just doesn't seem right to me. Sorry to hear about your bird! Hope you get one soon!
to have not bagged a turkey in 4 years you must be doing something very wrong!!!!! as far as having a turkey shot out from under you, though not out of the realm of possibility, i dont think its all to common, thats just real chitty luck!! ive never actually seen another turkey hunter in my neck of the woods in MI. lots of birds, and no hunters.
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