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Title: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Bowguy on April 21, 2025, 02:58:17 AM
Well it's 2:50 and I've been waiting on a bud to get here. I'd have been in already.
Got some birds roosted. He's never shot a bird so plan is to let him take the first.
My youth hunter missed a shot at about 15 feet Sat.
Best of luck and be safe boys
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Tom007 on April 21, 2025, 03:25:54 AM
Ditto
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: NJGobblerHunter on April 21, 2025, 05:06:36 AM
Good luck!
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Bowguy on April 21, 2025, 09:07:15 AM
Marks first bird. First time w mentor. Only tried couple times previous


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Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Greg Massey on April 21, 2025, 09:39:46 AM
Good luck everyone

Congrats to him ...
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: NJGobblerHunter on April 21, 2025, 09:59:23 AM
Congrats to him!
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: zelmo1 on April 21, 2025, 10:13:49 AM
Congrats to him, he is hooked now.Z
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Bowguy on April 21, 2025, 10:28:53 AM
Mark went home I stayed


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Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: NJGobblerHunter on April 21, 2025, 11:24:00 AM
Awesome!
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Post by: nyturkeyduster on April 21, 2025, 01:50:47 PM
Tough day to beat. Congratulations.
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: TrackeySauresRex on April 21, 2025, 06:32:33 PM
WTG! Congrats to You and Mark!  :happy0064:
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Tom007 on April 21, 2025, 06:34:07 PM
Quote from: Bowguy on April 21, 2025, 09:07:15 AMMarks first bird. First time w mentor. Only tried couple times previous


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Nice job, congrats!
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Tom007 on April 21, 2025, 06:34:59 PM
Quote from: Bowguy on April 21, 2025, 10:28:53 AMMark went home I stayed


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Great job Mike, beauty!
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Bowguy on April 21, 2025, 07:27:27 PM
Appreciate it fellas
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: JeffC on April 21, 2025, 07:44:47 PM
Congrats to the both of you and thank you for taking the time to share this wonderful addictive thing we all love! Looks like a nice rope on your Tom. 
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Ross R on April 24, 2025, 09:20:03 AM
Congrats on his first bird! We hunted my inlaws farm property for youth and opening day.  Had him fly down just behind some junk and my son couldn't get a clean shot.  He disappeared with a hen after that.  2nd morning he was somewhere else and came back at 2:30 of course.  We drove around quite a bit looking at fields and it is crazy the lack of birds.  Would love to know what's going on with the population there. 
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: GobbleNut on April 24, 2025, 09:34:26 AM
How's that fire that is going on impacting the hunting there?
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: mountainhunter1 on April 24, 2025, 09:45:37 AM
That's awesome Mike. Looks like you got busy in a hurry after he left with his turkey. Very nice - Congrats brother!
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Bowguy on April 24, 2025, 06:44:35 PM
Quote from: GobbleNut on April 24, 2025, 09:34:26 AMHow's that fire that is going on impacting the hunting there?
What fire is that?
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Turkeybutt on April 26, 2025, 07:55:19 AM
The New Jersey wild fires. I was watching that on the news yesterday and thinking about how the fire is going to affect the turkeys and the guys chasing them. Be safe!
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: JeffC on April 26, 2025, 08:53:27 AM
Hunted Monday, I could smell the smoke all morning, not a lot of gobbling. Hunted yesterday and wind was different direction, heard a lot more gobbling. Saw more vehicles at gates than usual. 2 big WMAs are shut down do to fires. Don't know if they are all related to fires. Thankfully we are getting rain today.   
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Ol Timer on April 26, 2025, 09:02:46 AM
Bowguy Congratulations to both of you. It's great you took the time to help that hunter get his first turkey something that he will remember for a lifetime.
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: Badger on April 26, 2025, 11:41:26 AM
NICE!
Title: Re: Good luck to the Nj guys
Post by: TrackeySauresRex on April 26, 2025, 08:55:28 PM
Quote from: GobbleNut on April 24, 2025, 09:34:26 AMHow's that fire that is going on impacting the hunting there?

  G.N.... I'm close to that are. That zone does hold some birds. But I won't hunt it.

  I'm not sure if you saw one of my posts. I was returning home from hunting, driving through the burn. We spotted turkeys feeding in it. It was still smoldering! Craziest thing I ever saw. I never thought I'd see something like that happen that fast.

It will recover for the better, I believe.