Having one 20 yards to your left behind bushes drumming for a solid hour. I thought I would have a heart attack before he got to a place that I could shoot him. reflexl
Had one 10 feet away once. There was a mosquito sucking juice out of the corner of my eye and I could not move. My buddy thought it would be fun to make a soft call and the bird gobbled right in my face. By far the most intense moment in the turkey woods for me.
What about sitting there and not hearing anything,so you decide to hit a call and low and behold there is one standing 5ft behind your tree and he gobbles? If that doesn't make your bowels nearly release I don't know what will! Had that happen to me on a few hunts over the years! It never gets old!
First time I had one spit drum 3 feet from my blind. Then he gobbled at the sound of the blind zipper coming down. He ain't gobblin no more.
spittin and drummin when he is within range but you can't see him...you just hope you have your gun pointed where he pops out!
Quote from: TN Beard Buster on March 01, 2013, 07:18:01 PM
What about sitting there and not hearing anything,so you decide to hit a call and low and behold there is one standing 5ft behind your tree and he gobbles? If that doesn't make your bowels nearly release I don't know what will! Had that happen to me on a few hunts over the years! It never gets old!
I know exactly how that feels! Year before last I had sat right in between two hens that I didn't know were there. They saw me move and started all manner of non-sense before flying down in the field behind me. I called a little then decided to cool it and let things settle down. How the two gobblers got behind me I dont know. I finally decided it was time to try it (calling) and they gobbled and rattled my fillings. Scared the fire out of me. Fortunately I didn't jump. They came around to me left and out in the field a t which time I lowered the boom on one of them. Turned out to be a double beared 3 year old.
When you have one hammering and he is getting closer. That's my favorite part when I know they are coming and the anticipation of see him.. Nothing like it!
Having a tom spittin and drummin and you cant see him yet
Having 3 long beards gobble heir heads off within 30 yards and not wanting the show to end so you just wait....and wait.....and wait. Then shoot one in the face at 10 steps. Had them all dead to right for 5+ minutes. Coolest thing I've ever seen in the woods.
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Having a bird roosted and a perfect set-up. Watching him gobble and strut on the limb waiting for him to pitch down.
Then lowering the boom on him as soon as his feet touch the ground!!!
When you're in the woods and a bird gobbles within twenty yards of you and you can feel it.
There's something about being close to a strutting gobbler on a spring day. It's like being in the presence of a ghost.
Quote from: TN Beard Buster on March 01, 2013, 07:18:01 PM
What about sitting there and not hearing anything,so you decide to hit a call and low and behold there is one standing 5ft behind your tree and he gobbles? If that doesn't make your bowels nearly release I don't know what will! Had that happen to me on a few hunts over the years! It never gets old!
this for sure. This is what got me addicted to turkey hunting since age 13. I did not see or hear one coming to my inexperienced calling & was packing things up when one cut loose with a gobble that scared the living crap right out of me. I was lucky & after taking that gobbler, I was hooked for life......
Hearing him cut the distance to your set up and that first moment when you see him....
Dropping one dead. Best part, hands down!
The rush of a big old gobble 15 yards in front of your gub barrel! :gobble:
Just as you lay eyes on him for the first time at 25 yds after hearing walking and wings dragging in the leaves for 5 mins
Having one gobble real close, but just out of sight, and you hear his footsteps in the leaves as he is about to show up. It is so intense when your setup will have him appear within 15 steps or so and you don't know exactly where it will be.
When he's getting close, but you still haven't seen him and he lets out a big old gobble and it feels like the ground shakes...man I love turkey hunting!!!
The night before opening morning.
when one gobbles closer and closer and you see that grin on a kids face that's never killed one.
For me....when he gets inside the kill bubble and somebody whispers "I see him!"
Using breaks in terrain, natural cover, shadows, the sound of the wind, crawling, creeping, sliding, rolling, running, watching the birds every action to know when to move and when to freeze, applying my knowledge of the land I hunt and where and when the birds will be, to flat out stalk and take them down one on one. Definitely not your traditional call and wait style turkey hunting nor something to do on public land, but it's a huge rush for me to take a bird this way and I just plain love it.
just being able to play the "GAME" with them every year
win or lose,if I get to play the game,then as far as I'm concerned, I've won
Standing on his face!
Quote from: Gobblestopper on March 03, 2013, 02:10:58 PM
Using breaks in terrain, natural cover, shadows, the sound of the wind, crawling, creeping, sliding, rolling, running, watching the birds every action to know when to move and when to freeze, applying my knowledge of the land I hunt and where and when the birds will be, to flat out stalk and take them down one on one. Definitely not your traditional call and wait style turkey hunting nor something to do on public land, but it's a huge rush for me to take a bird this way and I just plain love it.
If you don't me asking what state are you hunting in? Stalking is illegal in my state, Pennsylvania and it should be it's a dangerous practice.
Nothing beats seeing one strut while the warm spring morning sun hitting him. I still remember seeing my first one top the hill and go into full strut. The sun hit him, he was spitting and drumming and my heart literally skipped. Never will forget it. My buddy was going to let me shoot but I was so caught up in how awesome he looked that I forgot to get my gun ready. He shot the bird but it was what lit my fire for turkey hunting. I haven't stopped since.
When it is still kind of dark out and that first gobble shatters the morning silence!! Gets the blood flowing and starts out the day right, everything else is icing on the cake.
the GOBBLE, i don't care about distance, worry about that later, just let him gobble!
When you are working a bird, he's getting closer and closer.. then he shuts up. I just love the anticipation of knowing he's on his way.. or is he done? That's a good feeling.
Quote from: derek on March 04, 2013, 07:53:15 AM
When you are working a bird, he's getting closer and closer.. then he shuts up. I just love the anticipation of knowing he's on his way.. or is he done? That's a good feeling.
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Quote from: longspur on March 03, 2013, 06:08:53 AM
when one gobbles closer and closer and you see that grin on a kids face that's never killed one.
I like that one!
I have had em so close stuttn, gobblin and drummn that I could feel my heart beat in my face and was afraid to breath or blink.
Quote from: WildTigerTrout on March 03, 2013, 10:21:18 PM
Quote from: Gobblestopper on March 03, 2013, 02:10:58 PM
Using breaks in terrain, natural cover, shadows, the sound of the wind, crawling, creeping, sliding, rolling, running, watching the birds every action to know when to move and when to freeze, applying my knowledge of the land I hunt and where and when the birds will be, to flat out stalk and take them down one on one. Definitely not your traditional call and wait style turkey hunting nor something to do on public land, but it's a huge rush for me to take a bird this way and I just plain love it.
If you don't me asking what state are you hunting in? Stalking is illegal in my state, Pennsylvania and it should be it's a dangerous practice.
That's nice that you feel that way but if its legal where he hunts, who cares?
Callin' birds in for my Dad and seein' the smile and pure excitement when he's holdin' em up by the legs.
When you've been on the same tree for so long and haven't moved with your gun up, past the point of tired muscles and butt/back pain. Then an ole white head comes poking around a tree and your so fast to put about 100 high-density pellets in that turkeys head, you don't even know what happened. Then, ahhhhhh, you stand up and all the blood rushes back to your butt cheeks, that's turkey hunting for you!
Just kidding, that's too literal, I like that first gobble to the hoot! It makes you feel like you just woke up a whole different world, and the games begin.
Quote from: Spring_Woods on March 02, 2013, 12:38:30 PM
Dropping one dead. Best part, hands down!
My sentiment exactly 8)
Killing the gobbler you've chased for 2 seasons and finally did everything right
It's simple, we turkey hunt because they :gobble:
The closer & louder the better!
Seeing a smile on my Dads face 2.5 weeks after he had a 5 bypass and we thought he was going to die. He thought he would never get to turkey hunt again and when he killed a 19.25 lbs, with an 11" beard 2.5 weeks after his 5 bypass heart surg. I built him a blind in the edge of a hay field and drove him right up to it before day light helped him get in a fold up chair and sit the decks. up. He was so week he had to shoot off of a shooting stick. He went on to kill another gobbler a week later, and never missed a beat sense thin. He lost his sight last year in in right eye and learned to shoot left handed and kill a nice on last year after missing the first 2.5 weeks with his eye. These have been the 2 most exciting things for me ever turkey hunting. With the bypass being first.
:OGturkeyhead: :OGturkeyhead:
Definetly for me seeing a kid take their first long beard.
Agree, seeing a kid or even a adult that's never had a bird close, much less shoot one.
The breathing gets faster, the gun barrel moving up and down, takes you back to that first bird. Good stuff.....