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#61

Category: 2024 OLD GOBBLER TURKEY HUNTING TEAM CONTEST / Re: Team Running Scores

Last post by wvhoyt19 - May 07, 2024, 07:21:04 PM

Congrats Killer B's !!


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#62

2024 Killer B's / Re: I love it when a plan come...

Last post by Bottomland OG - May 07, 2024, 06:43:29 PM

Congratulations and what an awesome story!!

#63

Team GOATS 2024 / Re: Avid's Hunt Log

Last post by avidnwoutdoorsman - May 07, 2024, 06:40:05 PM

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#64

Team GOATS 2024 / Re: Avid's Hunt Log

Last post by avidnwoutdoorsman - May 07, 2024, 06:35:25 PM

4/28 - I park at the timber gate up from my property and set up on the logging road. I thought the birds were roosting off the road when I get to about where I think I should set up and a gobble echos up the hill from me. That's fine I'm in a good place and maybe they will pitch to the road. The bird gobbles his brains out before the sun breaks the hills. The first bird pitches but instead of to the rd I am on below it is flat to the bench above me. I had wondered that this would not be the outcome. Once I am sure they are all out of the trees and that the are working indeed the bench away I slip back down the hill and around. After a slog of a climb up the hill to get in front of them as I reach the top, with a soft yelp, I am greated with a gobble 100 yds "behind" me toward the roost they flew out of. This meant they had covered a couple hundered yards and I had indeed got in front. Calling infrequently it was apparent they were going to work down the hill and around me out of range. So I mad ethe move to slide over to stay above them but also get more level with there path. After some joking I get a to place where a gobble is close. As I'm sitting in to get ready for  a shot he pops out first and starts to put/walk away/freak all at once. A second one walks in right where he was and I squeeze off. It runs up the hill away towards the first. With my face mostly in my hands a third walks out and stops. Not expecting this I can no sooner get my gun back up when the bird has made haste to join the others.

I head back to my truck and go for a little jaunt. I cruise around a little to see what the numbers look like, how the flock sizes are, and where can I see birds. All looks relatively good. This are I am in we called the pink. It was the wrong way from the airport to Idaho but I felt I knew the best. There was another area the Yellow that I might know second best and if I could turn up some birds there that would be more on our way from the airport, through WA, to Idaho. So I cruise over there checking some spots, looking at other private fields etc. There are no real promising leads.

I pick up my hunting partner from the airport at 1130am. We get fuel and settled and take off for the pink. Again this is a 1.5hr detour but we will probably save 3 hours hunting it because I am that much more familiar with it. We stop in a spot I haven't looked in yet this year where we find lots of sign but cant scratch a gobble. We then get more up and into the pink. I have a kind of loop planned if you will were we will park at a gate, walk in a quarter to half mile calling sporadically and move to the next, looking for a hot bird. As we are getting nearer to the ranch I tell Bennet to look over the handrail in this field below the road. 1/20 times I pass this field there is a bird in it. (Those are terrible odds for where I hunt). Sure as heck there in the field is a big ol Tom. WE run up to the land owners door to confirm pre-acquired permission. He is trying to load some calves up to get them to town. B is itching to get on a bird. He gets a break and reassures us we are good to hunt the "Dam" Field. We ease our way to the edge of the field and give some sweet talk to the old boy. He has a jake with him and not to be stood up he charges ahead of the jake to within range where B makes a nice kill shot and is on the board in state one a little over 3 hours from landing.

We make it to our next state and the weather aint the best. Clouds have continued to move in and its windy. We come across a flock in a brown field and as we drive up to ask permission we bugger them straight to the woods. We back out and get a good lay of the land walking and calling over both public and private ground. Unfortunately as the sun went to bed so had the turkeys in silence. We did not have a single bird roosted. Not common for Merriam's out west. We elect to sit on the brown dirt bird in the morning.

#65

General Forum / Re: I’m a spurs guy

Last post by Happy - May 07, 2024, 06:25:24 PM

Spurs are cool, but I am a beard guy.

Good-looking and Platinum level member of the Elitist club

#66

Team GOATS 2024 / Re: Avid's Hunt Log

Last post by avidnwoutdoorsman - May 07, 2024, 06:13:23 PM

4/27 - My birthday -
I arrive at the Ranch at about 9 or 10am. I stopped in on a few place while on the way in. Left the night before from my home around 10pm or so. 6 hr drive plus a little sleep and scouting some new turf I get to the ranch at mid-morning. The ranch is my coworkers place that is more developed with power and a place to sleep. My property is over the mountain, maybe 5mi as the crow flies but 20min or more in the car. I spend the balance of the day getting my truck fitted up for a cab over camper. My buddy gave it to me as long as it leaves his property. Fair deal if you ask me. Seen lots of birds on the drive in but the weather is ugly. Rain, sun, sleet, sun, rain, rain, drizzle, hail. All day long. Finally about supper time we finish up. I eat a bowl of whatever the misses made and head out to roost some birds. I really want to check on the birds by my place so I head over. To my pleasure there is one roosted in the middle of my property, one two the west on the timber you cant hunt, and a new roost to the east on the timberland you can hunt. I decide I'll make a play for that bird in the morning. Head back to the cabin and get some rest. (The next three days would be wildly good and long).

#67

General Forum / Re: Turkey adventure 24

Last post by WV Flopper - May 07, 2024, 06:02:56 PM

2FlyFish4. The way you worded the question. Blind

I know no one in any of those states TMK! I have no pins from anyone but myself from my E Scouting.

E Scouting, DNR reports. Words on this forum. Confidence in self, and a desire to go.

#68

General Forum / Re: I’m a spurs guy

Last post by WV Flopper - May 07, 2024, 05:57:11 PM

Spurs

#69

General Forum / Re: Heavy Lifting

Last post by WV Flopper - May 07, 2024, 05:54:58 PM

Cody WC slate and a Gooserbat Gold Digger.

#70

Push Pin Turkey Calls / Re: Snakewood Mail Day

Last post by SwampRooster17 - May 07, 2024, 05:43:51 PM

Beautiful caller!


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