You walk 6 miles scouting see one track and you still had a good day.
When you are awake at 10:30 thinking about opening day and its 2 weeks away.
Two weeks? You lucky dog, I still got a month and a half!
You look forward to chasing turkeys all year long.
When you wake up to find yourself roosting on the bedpost. :gobble:
Go listen everyday 2 weeks before season.
When it's the last day season and you can't wait for the next year!
You get up at 5 am every morning before season and log on to the internet cams to see and hear the wild turkeys.
I have the affliction
Gman
You go to the zoo and when you walk by the Turkey exhibit you pull out your call and work it and embarass your wife.
When you start viewing everything in life as a pattern and wander where to screw in a choke to change things. reflexl
You're sitting in Cracker Barrel waiting for your dinner and hear someone begin laughing, but swear it sounded like a hen yelp.
When you call your dad every night on the phone to check on him and mom and 89% of your talk is about Turkey hunting and the other 10% is about making turkey calls 01% is about your mother.
:OGturkeyhead: :OGturkeyhead:
You hang out in the livestock tents at the state fair just to yelp and cluck to the caged gobblers. :funnyturkey:
When your walking around whistling the kee kee or whistle....and don't realize it !!
:gobble: :z-dizzy:
when you wish your girlfriend wasn't in the car so you could break out the calls.... :help:
When you tell your family and friends no plans between march 15 and April 30
You tell the wife to be she's got 11 months of the year to plan a wedding and April ain't included.
Quote from: trippsims on March 05, 2013, 01:06:59 PM
when you wish your girlfriend wasn't in the car so you could break out the calls.... :help:
You break out your calls whether she's in the car or not!
You must be a young fellow, so we'll let it slide this time. ;)
When you think about turkeys/turkey hunting 365 days a year.
No camping trips during turkey season ,unless I have pre-scouted the area we are going. :fire:
Quote from: CASH on March 05, 2013, 02:17:14 PM
When you tell your family and friends no plans between march 15 and April 30
This one!
Quote from: barry on March 05, 2013, 02:37:16 PM
Quote from: trippsims on March 05, 2013, 01:06:59 PM
when you wish your girlfriend wasn't in the car so you could break out the calls.... :help:
You break out your calls whether she's in the car or not!
You must be a young fellow, so we'll let it slide this time. ;)
X2!
When you eat, sleep & dream about turkeys constantly. When your kids and wife don't want to be near you b/c they are tired of hearing turkeys constantly in the house, car, bathroom etc. I have even resisted my wife's lovings sometimes early in the morning or late at night (which isn't easy :toothy12:) knowing that I will be denied later...... All b/c of some stupid bird (as my wife calls it). Now that's addicted.
When you get home from work before your wife and you're setting on the couch practicing with your mouth call and you don't notice she is home until she smacks you in the back of the head.
You are setting in your cold 46 deg house checking the forum before you build a fire to see what other real turkey hunters say about this question.
(true story!)
When your are sitting in a fast food joint and you pull out your straw and start yelping on it like you would on a wingbone or trumpet yelper!!! Don't laugh cause you know there's some of you who have done it!
Every time a crow sounds off, you do a gobble under your breath. 365 days/yr, no matter where I am. And then your friends start doing it. 4 days to yuut season! Bring it!!!
When 6am comes waaaaaaaaay to early to get up for work..............but 4am doesnt come early enough to get up to go turkey hunting :funnyturkey:
When your wife leaves you and the first thing that comes to mind is how many turkeys are going to die.
When you stop and listen whenever a crow sounds off....regardless of where you're at when it happens.
When your at bass pro and walk by the people running the turkey calls on display and you ring out a loud gobble.Which causes everyone to go quite and look at you like your some kind of werido. And you dont know why everyone is looking in your direction. :TrainWreck1:
When the radiator in your pickup is leaking and needs to be replaced, but you choose to fix it with some epoxy that may or may not hold so you can instead buy a new pistol grip stock for the turkey gun.
When you carry your 5 yr old and your 20 month old with you scouting. All by my self Yep! I really needed to go.
When getting up at 5:30am for work is sleeping in.
Quote from: jakesdad on March 05, 2013, 08:49:48 PM
When 6am comes waaaaaaaaay to early to get up for work..............but 4am doesnt come early enough to get up to go turkey hunting :funnyturkey:
My new hero!
During hunting season, I wake the alarm clock up - the rest of the year I punch it when it wakes me up!
When I spent all day in Seattle with my family and then drove 3 1/2 hours to get home around 11:00pm. And then I quickly threw my turkey gear and a cooler in my truck and drove about 4 hours to Idaho to hunt a couple of birds that had given me fits on a couple other hunts. And the best part is I finally killed one of them that morning around 11:20. My buddies thought I was crazy to do that, but that's how much I love turkey hunting.
When you have enough passion and respect for a bird that you won't give up no matter what obsticales come in your way.Perseverance ,dedication and a can win attitude are the tools of those who chose to pursue a majestic bird with the brain the size of a peanut.
Quote from: Shotgun on March 05, 2013, 09:24:38 PM
When your wife leaves you and the first thing that comes to mind is how many turkeys are going to die.
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TrainWreck1:
After 45 day's of scouting and watching turkey's and you pick you 2 birds out and harvest just the 2 turkey's you picked out and passing on so many others just to get the 2 you wanted
i had this guy in the decoys 4 days and passed on him
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll78/firstflight111/turkey%205-2-2012/5-2-2012turkeys003.jpg)
and this one
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll78/firstflight111/turkey%203/SAM_0012.jpg)
and be able to get this one
(http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/ll78/firstflight111/1111.jpg)
When your sister offers you a Trip to Hawaii that will only cost you Airfare in August .. and you try to get her to change it to March instead so you can find a place to Turkey hunt while there
The wife and sister didn't allow it, but I sure was trying.. :)
Your in the woods on opening day in newly camouflaged crutches fresh off of knee surgery.
When, you don't use a blind, decoy, or GPS. You don't have to roost a bird or get to him by using a golf cart.
When you wake up in the morning and realized you just dreamed about seeing turkey tacks. :OGturkeyhead:
When you blow your wad on an Osceola hunt only to return home and start selling off stuff to pay for a Rio Grande hunt.
Quote from: savduck on March 07, 2013, 05:02:26 PM
When, you don't use a blind, decoy, or GPS. You don't have to roost a bird or get to him by using a golf cart.
Amen, now pass the biscuits...
Quote from: StruttinGobbler3 on March 05, 2013, 03:11:37 AM
When you wake up to find yourself roosting on the bedpost. :gobble:
:TooFunny: :TooFunny:
When you darn near wear out your DVD player and all you DVDs over the winter.
Wife just can't understand how I can sit for hours and watch hunts, she just don't get it.
:fud: :newmascot:
When your 18 month old little boy knows how to owl hoot, work a box call, recognizes a turkey gobble and gets excited and can spot a turkey just as fast as I can when scouting. He owns all the same camo as daddy tells me to be quiet while watching turkeys.. That's when your a turkey addict lol.
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Quote from: birdyhunter on March 09, 2013, 10:30:22 AM
When your 18 month old little boy knows how to owl hoot, work a box call, recognizes a turkey gobble and gets excited and can spot a turkey just as fast as I can when scouting. He owns all the same camo as daddy tells me to be quiet while watching turkeys.. That's when your a turkey addict lol.
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Wow that is impressive. My daughter was 4 when I showed her my old slate calls & how to use it. People thought it was ridiculous that she could tell you what a box, slate, crow, & owl calls were and how to use them. When she is 6 I hope to take her out with me (she doesn't have the patience to sit with me right now). Looks like your little one will be ready much sooner........Awesome....
Quote from: tomstopper on March 09, 2013, 03:15:50 PM
Quote from: birdyhunter on March 09, 2013, 10:30:22 AM
When your 18 month old little boy knows how to owl hoot, work a box call, recognizes a turkey gobble and gets excited and can spot a turkey just as fast as I can when scouting. He owns all the same camo as daddy tells me to be quiet while watching turkeys.. That's when your a turkey addict lol.
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Wow that is impressive. My daughter was 4 when I showed her my old slate calls & how to use it. People thought it was ridiculous that she could tell you what a box, slate, crow, & owl calls were and how to use them. When she is 6 I hope to take her out with me (she doesn't have the patience to sit with me right now). Looks like your little one will be ready much sooner........Awesome....
well through no doing of my own he has advanced insanely fast. Not sure where he got his intelligence but it is unbelievable the things he can do at his age. I have however had him in the woods since he was born. Carried him on my shoulders to scout for deer, take him with me to hang stands, scout turkeys, fill feeders, set up blinds etc. We will be in a blind in the a.m watching flydown from a distance and he loves every second of it. 3 weeks old here.
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