For this spring turkey season. I got 2 different birds that put the slip on me more than once last year so I would really like to introduce them to some nitros.
Stopped setting goals years ago. I go and enjoy the outing and if it happens it happens. Learned I would enjoy myself more if I don't put pressure on myself. I just listen to the woods and react and see what happens. I don't practice calling any more either. I realized I wasn't getting any better for it and occasionally I fooled a turkey with what I could do.
I am taking a kid hunting on the youth hunt from St. Jude's . I really hope to exceed his expectations and get him away from his disease for a weekend
Enjoy the great outdoors and enjoy the gobbling.
Quote from: Skeeterbait on February 19, 2015, 10:19:34 PM
Stopped setting goals years ago. I go and enjoy the outing and if it happens it happens. Learned I would enjoy myself more if I don't put pressure on myself. I just listen to the woods and react and see what happens. I don't practice calling any more either. I realized I wasn't getting any better for it and occasionally I fooled a turkey with what I could do.
excellent post
I feel the same way, I use to carry all kinds of pressure and expectations with me to the woods until it wasn't fun any more.
I quit that and now I sit back and enjoy the mornings that the good lord gives us and as you said "if it happens, it happens"
To hunt longer when the birds aren't talking.
Its hard to do when you pass a stocked pond on the walk to the woods!
Tag out. Call birds in for friends.
I've been skunked for the past two seasons. I was only able to go out a hand full of times due to being a Drill Sergeant working hellacious hours. My goal is to simply get out into the woods more and hone my turkey technique.
My goals are different this year. I just want to enjoy myself and learn something new every trip.
I really don't set any goals,too old for all that, I really just try to enjoy every minute of the spring. That being said, I do have a score to settle with a bird that I have done everything but kill!!! for the last 3 yrs, other than that, just enjoy!!!
I would like to call a gobbler in with a wingbone call I made. I don't use it much because I am so used to my other calls.
I really should have more confidence in it seeing as I have used it to call hens into range.
Quote from: surehuntsalot on February 19, 2015, 11:18:51 PM
Quote from: Skeeterbait on February 19, 2015, 10:19:34 PM
Stopped setting goals years ago. I go and enjoy the outing and if it happens it happens. Learned I would enjoy myself more if I don't put pressure on myself. I just listen to the woods and react and see what happens. I don't practice calling any more either. I realized I wasn't getting any better for it and occasionally I fooled a turkey with what I could do.
excellent post
I feel the same way, I use to carry all kinds of pressure and expectations with me to the woods until it wasn't fun any more.
I quit that and now I sit back and enjoy the mornings that the good lord gives us and as you said "if it happens, it happens"
words of wisdom. The only real goal/wish I have is to be able to see my dad take his first 20 guage bird this year and me get to be there and witness it. Other than that, I hope I can slow down and thank god for how he has blessed me with another opportunity to go
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My goal is to teach my girls more this spring and to put birds in front of them. Watching them hunt and seeing them kill turkeys makes me completely happy!
Quote from: Skeeterbait on February 19, 2015, 10:19:34 PM
Stopped setting goals years ago. I go and enjoy the outing and if it happens it happens. Learned I would enjoy myself more if I don't put pressure on myself. I just listen to the woods and react and see what happens. I don't practice calling any more either. I realized I wasn't getting any better for it and occasionally I fooled a turkey with what I could do.
Pretty much this^^^ I learned it made it more work than fun trying to reach a "goal". I'd say if I had one at all it would be get my son his first spring bird.But if we turn it into work by pressuring ourselves to get it done instead of having fun enjoying the experience,havent we missed the point of turkey hunting altogether?
I'm not saying a person shouldnt set goals,but I think way too many people set the bar to high then end up not happy by not reaching them,totally missing all the good things that happened along the way. :z-twocents:
To call in more turkeys for my wife to kill using her faithfull 20 ga. Rem. 1100 (Ol' Nellie)!!!
And, to make another trip back to the N. GA mountains to hunt with Herb McClure!
To hunt more states and and harvest at least 6 gobblers this season...that's my goal every year. I don't put any pressure on myself to accomplish. Also want to get my youngest grandson Taite started turkey hunting this year and grandson Tanner his second tom. And to FINALLY harvest a tom with my Ithaca turkeyslayer....I've owned it three years but usually hunt with a 935 or 3500 so will focus on this gun early season.
Most important goal for this season is to put my nephew on a gobbler and hopefully watch him seal the deal and get his first.
Just to be able to get out there & enjoy God's creation. If I do happen to get on a gobbler & call him up & kill him then that's just icing on the cake. Good luck to everyone this spring.
My main goals are not to get eaten by an alligator or bit by a cotton mouth during my first season in Louisiana . . .
Call my wife a bird
Call a youth hunter a bird
Call a wounded warrior a bird
after all that my season starts but it starts complete, anything me and buddy kill is icing on the cake as we've already worked a bunch of birds and seen some people with big smiles on their faces
Put a Tom in front of my 21 year old daughter that has said, for the first time in her life, that she wants to hunt with her Dad. She is a fishing machine with me, outlasts her Mom and brother easily when fishing. She has never had any desire to shoot anything, but this year wants to kill a turkey. She is darn near a vegetarian (doesn't eat a lot of meat, just not a fan of it, like her mom), but she likes fried turkey strips. I intend to keep it fun, teach her the spring woods and how to hunt. Cultivate a passion and keep the pressure off. Let her learn from day one that hunting is all about the pursuit. The squeeze of the trigger is a tiny bit of the experience.
And thank the Good Lord for every spring morning I get to enjoy in His creation!
Psalm 118v24:
This is the day the Lord hath made, let us rejoice and be glad in it.
My goals are to be healthy enough to enjoy another spring season.
Really looking forwards to it!
Point out the sound of the Cardinal, the Hooded Warbler, the Carolina Wren and the Tufted Titmouse to my grandsons. And if one of those male Wild Turkeys makes too much noise, well call him over so one of the grandsons can shut him up so that we can get back to the more important things like listening to the sound of the Cardinal, the Hooded Warbler, the Carolina Wren and the Tufted Titmouse.
To bag a mature Osceola on public land and get a couple of toms in front of my grandsons.
To make them all call shy.
1.) Have fun, every time.
2.) Come home safe, every time.
To kill a big tom over my new BadonkoDeke decoy :goofball:
Quote from: guesswho on February 20, 2015, 05:29:04 PM
To make them all call shy.
I don't even make that a goal anymore. Just happens naturally! :funnyturkey:
:thanks: I want to learn something every year. i don't think anyone will ever learn it all, but I want to learn and enjoy all my hunts. Most people will agree that you learn more from not getting a bird that walking out and tagging out early. Late season and hard hunted birds would be great to get educated on. In New England, just finding birds this year will be a success. 90+ inches of snow at my house and ridiculous cold has taken a toll on our birds. Learning to better read birds and call better each season. My young daughter wants to go this year, she can't hunt yet but she is willing to get up and come with me. All I can ask for is to keep her interested. She is psyched up to go and I do not want to dissappoint her. Good luck to all. Al Baker
.... just to go one more time. Strutter.
To kill more turkeys than bama turkey hunter
To enjoy time in the woods with, and to get my daughter a shot opportunity. I imagine her goal is to make the most of her shot opportunity :)
We'll we will just have to see about that Larry Haynes. :funnyturkey:
To kill my first!
Quote from: Izzyjoe on February 22, 2015, 09:11:58 AM
To kill my first!
you will get ur dun this spring :icon_thumright:
Youve been hanging out here with the guys! :welcomeOG: :fud: :fud:
1) Kill my first Alabama Long Beard
2) Kill a turkey with my ten gauge
I've got a few goals for this season.
- Gonna try to kill a bird with my Dad's A5. Carried on several hunts last season but didn't score.
- Gonna try to add a couple of new states to my list of places I've killed gobblers. My goal is in all of the lower 48 states before I die.
- Gonna take an old friend turkey hunting for the first time. He's been hunting for many years, but has never turkey hunted.
- Gonna call and guide for a mobility impaired hunter.
Hopefully along the way I'll bag some good birds! :fud: :OGani:
Just to enjoy each day I get to spend in the woods..
Quote from: Skeeterbait on February 19, 2015, 10:19:34 PM
Stopped setting goals years ago. I go and enjoy the outing and if it happens it happens. Learned I would enjoy myself more if I don't put pressure on myself. I just listen to the woods and react and see what happens. I don't practice calling any more either. I realized I wasn't getting any better for it and occasionally I fooled a turkey with what I could do.
+1 on this right here. Just enjoy "the experience"; I have hunts lined up on about 10 pieces of property, and have good birds on each one of them. I'd love to tag out this year, but ... Honestly, if I get one bird in a season, I consider it awesome & am thankful for the kill... I've also phased into more of a "mentoring hunter" where I really get a kick out of introducing newbies to the sport, and watching THEM get jacked up; I get as much of a thrill out of that as I do taking a bird myself...
BGD
To wake up and enjoy every day I get to go into the spring turkey woods.
Going after a public land NE Merriam this year, so harvesting a nice tom there is the goal. Having said that, I'm going with three good buddies so the camping and conversations will be worth the trip alone.
My goal is to go west. I would like to get after a Rio or Merriam.. Location undecided.
I am an eye doctor by trade... I am wired to try and figure out problems and how things work...
Turkey hunting provides the perfect situation for a continuous learning opportunity... No doubt but that there are people on this forum that know a lot more than I do, but I would still hazard that nobody has figured it all out. I hope I will still learn something on the last turkey hunt of my life (hopefully many years from now).
I have already learned a bit on this forum, and last year some of that information was probably helpful in me putting one of my toms to bed... Heck, until yesterday, I had no idea what a "bubble-cluck" was...
I enjoy the learning process and trying to figure out what is happening and why. My goal is to learn a bit more this season... And, of course, to get a bit of revenge on the ones that got away last year.
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During the Fall 2014 season, my then 10 year old son took an interest in hunting. He is now 11 and the goal is to get him a bird but more importantly, teach him how to hunt and appreciate the game and time in the woods. He is super excited for the spring season which makes me 10 times more eager. I'd like to get one too.
Taking my son and daughter out / separately this year / taking my brother and his 10 year old out for their first time ever. Looking forward to this season for sure !
My goal is to be able to contain myself for the next couple weeks until I am hunting. Excited for March 20th
My goal is always to spend both tags I get in NC on mature gobblers.
I'd like to take one off the new land I got to hunt.
I'd also like to take one with my crossbow.
Jim
I found out in my sporting clays shooting: if you always shoot for a score, you don't always win. If you always shoot for fun-you win!
I've seen a LOT of turkeys in my time. I now hunt because I can, I have fun and the turkeys teach me something new every time I go!!
My goal for this spring and fall is to harvest a turkey ;D
My goal is just to enjoy every minute I get to spend in the spring woods. I love spring time.
To find their underground tunnel network on my farm. I know it is there I just need to find where.
I want to get my decoys but kicked :funnyturkey:
I want to take a bird off my own land.
Quote from: nativeks on February 26, 2015, 06:37:08 PM
I want to take a bird off my own land.
THAT is my ultimate goal. One day...
Quote from: jblackburn on February 26, 2015, 06:48:14 PM
Quote from: nativeks on February 26, 2015, 06:37:08 PM
I want to take a bird off my own land.
THAT is my ultimate goal. One day...
This year is looking promising for me
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To kill a big tom WITHOUT a blind, decoy, Hevi-13 or Longbeards, camo clothing and custom calls ;)
Quote from: KansasGobbler on February 28, 2015, 01:45:02 PM
To kill a big tom WITHOUT a blind, decoy, Hevi-13 or Longbeards, camo clothing and custom calls ;)
What else are FORDS for in Totoville???????????