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Title: 1st turkey hunt
Post by: Rich54 on April 15, 2012, 02:16:16 PM
Hello to all. Im a new member and after a lifetime of hunting Im going on my first Turkey hunt tomorrow. :happy0064:

So wish me luck and best wishes for your hunts this spring. :anim_25:
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Post by: a-j calls on April 15, 2012, 02:37:01 PM
Have fun Rich..
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Post by: FANMAN on April 15, 2012, 03:40:25 PM
Good luck Rich,    :welcomeOG:
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Post by: Turkey Havoc on April 15, 2012, 07:39:40 PM
 :fud: :OGani: Good Luck and WELCOME!

:welcomeOG:
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Post by: guesswho on April 15, 2012, 08:07:29 PM
Good luck, and enjoy.  Nothing like it!
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Post by: surehuntsalot on April 16, 2012, 09:39:09 PM
welcome,good luck,and above all enjoy yourself
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Post by: tomstopper on April 16, 2012, 09:44:51 PM
 :welcomeOG: Good Luck
Title: Re: 1st turkey hunt
Post by: Rich54 on April 20, 2012, 07:09:35 AM
Thanks to all for the encouragement. The Turkeys Gods listened and I killed my first, a nice fat eating Jake on the 2nd day of our hunt. I called in 3 and they came running into my decoys so fast I never saw them coming. And then I had a nervous 5 to 10 mins, heart beating, while I waited to be able to move and for them to separate long enough to get a clean shot at one. The Browning Gold/Jelly choke/Hevi 456s, did the rest. After my bird went down the other two jumped on him and started kicking the snot out of him. I had to get up and move to them to get them to leave.

My brother took a mature Tom the last hour of the last day. All in all it made me wonder why Ive gone this long WITHOUT turkey hunting. It was a great hunt. Im still high from it and I'll never miss another season if I can help it.

IL. wild turkeys have my heart now. :toothy9:
Title: Re: 1st turkey hunt
Post by: shootemintheface on April 20, 2012, 07:17:53 AM
Congrats. Your hooked now.
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Post by: archery1 on April 20, 2012, 07:47:50 AM
 :welcomeOG:
congrats
now ur a turkeyholic
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Post by: hookedspur on April 20, 2012, 08:22:08 AM
Yep your hooked !! Congrats  :icon_thumright:
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Post by: davisd9 on April 20, 2012, 09:01:22 AM
Congratulations!  Pictures?
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Post by: mikejd on April 20, 2012, 09:14:12 AM
Congrats, your done. Your now 1 or 2 call collection will escalate to hundreds you'll wake up at night hearing gobbling( no joke) you'll have a drawer full of chokes. Patterns will be on the mind day and night and when you introduce yourself you will begin with hello I'm rich and I'm a turkaholic. Happy to have you aboard. Good luck with it.
:welcomeOG:
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Post by: Hognutz on April 20, 2012, 10:13:20 AM
Congrats on your first bird.  Nicely done..
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Post by: scoot12 on April 20, 2012, 10:16:55 AM
Congrats Rich,  that is awesome,  you will eventually buy your first custom call and then suddenly you need another and another and soon you have 20-30 calls and you can't stop.  Scoot
Title: Re: 1st turkey hunt
Post by: Timmer on April 20, 2012, 01:50:53 PM
Let the unstoppable addiction begin! 
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Post by: Divenut2 on April 20, 2012, 06:10:33 PM
Congrats! I became an addict last year, and fed my addication again this week. I went from 3 calls last year to 10 this year.....Doh!
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Post by: mikejd on April 20, 2012, 08:11:00 PM
Divenut thats how it happens. I dont use a ladder to clean the gutters anymore. I stand on my stack of pot calls.
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Post by: SammyC on April 20, 2012, 09:31:40 PM
Congrats bud.  Welcome to the addiction
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Post by: Old Gobbler on April 21, 2012, 08:37:44 AM
Quote from: Rich54 on April 15, 2012, 02:16:16 PM
Hello to all. Im a new member and after a lifetime of hunting Im going on my first Turkey hunt tomorrow. :happy0064:

So wish me luck and best wishes for your hunts this spring. :anim_25:
Best of luck , have a safe and enjoyable hunt --Shannon