Hunted them hard in Missouri and didn't have anything to show for it. Had an excellent hunt this morning, the last morning of season. If I would've stayed put for another 15 minutes I would've killed a bird I'm sure of it. I went to make one final adjustment before I had to leave and there was the bird, coming in quiet once I knew he was on the way. I took a poke at him probably 65ish yards, because ya can't kill em if you don't try. I watched him run to the next county, and will schedule a rematch for next season.
That sucks! Finish what you're doing and get back out there. You have two hours left!
Only if he doesn't die of ganggrene from some of the pellets that did hit him from that distance :z-twocents:
LOL Can't kill em if you don't try so let's just take a poke at him at 65 isssssssssssh. Thats the spirit
Ya , way to go young man you sure showed him.
65 yards away, come on now ???
65 yds huh. shame on you buddy. >:(
I just read a post noting that if we'd have just stayed another 15 minutes, what a difference it would have made in our success rate! I know that I've given up when just a few more minutes would have put game in my pouch. Oh well...that's why they call it "hunting".
It was freakin tough in the southern part of Mo with all the flooding. Took me 3 weeks but managed to finally put one in the ground this morning. Besides my wife's bird opening morning, this is only bird I could really get to play the game.
Quote from: turkey harvester on May 07, 2017, 04:33:26 PM
It was freakin tough in the southern part of Mo with all the flooding. Took me 3 weeks but managed to finally put one in the ground this morning. Besides my wife's bird opening morning, this is only bird I could really get to play the game.
Congrats to you Sir :icon_thumright:
Odd season in South Central Missouri for sure. I hope that with the 15+ inches of rain last weekend that the majority of the hens will attempt to raise another brood.
Yes, Southeast Missouri was a tough one. Least amount of gobbling I've ever heard and that's counting listening before season as well. Heard 2 this morning. One would have taken a boat to and he only gobbled 5 times on the limb. The other one gobbled twice on the limb. Finally found him and got him to gobble two more times on the ground. He was just about on private and probably ended up there.
A lot of my spots still have a ton of water. Late morning I drove to an old spot I've killed a few birds and a guy had his beagles out running deer. I think they were the same dogs that ran in on the one gobbler I got to work this week.
I just can't sit and call and wait for birds to come in quiet, I don't enjoy that style of hunting. I got to be walking and looking for a bird that wants to talk. Other than the first week (opening day) those birds just seemed non existent. From most hunters I've talked to they ran into the same thing. I can't complain too much though, I got to go quite a bit and got to tag one opening day. Even if it was a rough year, I'm still thankful.
Well momma said it would be that way sometimes...I am sure you had a great experience and made some memories regardless
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Quote from: owlhoot on May 07, 2017, 02:25:24 PM
Ya , way to go young man you sure showed him.
65 yards away, come on now ???
Showed his buddy a few years ago at 58 yards. Knocked him flat. I didn't expect to kill that turkey either.
Spent a week there this year myself we did ok made some fond memories I know that and had some great hunts.
I managed to tag out here in MO on Friday of the second week with a rainy day bird that I located gobbling at the thunder. Otherwise, I would have never gotten out of the Jeep! I just checked the telecheck numbers, 39,215 birds tagged during the regular season.
Quote from: HookedonHooks on May 07, 2017, 10:27:41 PM
Quote from: owlhoot on May 07, 2017, 02:25:24 PM
Ya , way to go young man you sure showed him.
65 yards away, come on now ???
Showed his buddy a few years ago at 58 yards. Knocked him flat. I didn't expect to kill that turkey either.
If a person doesn't expect to cleanly kill a turkey when they shoot that should be a key indicator not to shoot. It's not worth crippling one. I hope your season goes better next year. The challenge is what makes the sport so great and has kept me interested all of these years!!
Got the Benelli all cleaned and put away till next spring. Time to start flinging arrows!
Quote from: HookedonHooks on May 07, 2017, 10:27:41 PM
Quote from: owlhoot on May 07, 2017, 02:25:24 PM
Ya , way to go young man you sure showed him.
65 yards away, come on now ???
Showed his buddy a few years ago at 58 yards. Knocked him flat. I didn't expect to kill that turkey either.
Why would you even shoot at a turkey you don't expect to kill? This is at least the 2nd post I've read about you "taking a poke" at long range.You may as well go find a nest and stomp the eggs.
I can't tell someone else how to hunt but if you take shots you don't expect to land.. don't expect us to want to hear about them
It's a shame.... Hope bird is OK. Makes me sick when I hear of these folks taking pop shots over 45yd-50yd. I've heard it time and time again. "Well he wasn't coming any closer, had to do something...." How about let him go and hunt him another day?
I'm sure the bird is fine.... At that range the only pellets that penetrate are the ones that count. And it only takes one to count. I guess I didn't make a single one count. I'll be completely honest in that I probably shouldn't have shot, but you can't carry a bird out if you don't pull the trigger. It was my final minutes of the season, and I know fully well that's a possible shot, just not necessarily the most consistent or confident one. Flame me all ya want, but I enjoyed my season bird or not. Yesterday morning was one of my best hunts this season, and managing to kill that bird would've just been the icing on the cake. Tagged out in KS, MO kicked my butt, but now I'll be on the way to NE.
65 yard shot? Sounds like our Mo turkeys lost. I'll callNE and let them know your coming
Quote from: SinGin on May 08, 2017, 05:34:05 PM
65 yard shot? Sounds like our Mo turkeys lost. I'll callNE and let them know your coming
Nothing about those turkeys were "ours" it was on private land that I guarantee you'll never have access too. So go ahead and complain about injuring birds and hurting populations of birds you'll never see. I know for a fact the bird I shot at 55 earlier in the season was a miss, I felt myself being high after the trigger squeeze, and yesterday's bird was just out of range I guess. When the birds on this property have done nothing but stay long even in the perfect set ups, you eventually have to take a poke at them. As I I said it may not be the most confident shot but one that I know the gun can make, the right choke, the right loads, and a little bit of luck it's a dead turkey at 65 every time.... It's not like I'm shooting TSS 100 yard shots people are actually connecting on nowadays, but to each their own. Will stand by my statement that you can't carry a bird out of you don't atleast try. But will also stand by my other statement in that I maybe.... PROBABLY... shouldn't have shot, but most turkey hunters would be lying if they told you they've NEVER poked at a bird over 50. In the heat of the moment, especially on a bird that's about to bust, it's a reaction and an instaneous decision to make whether or not your going to pull the trigger. I've definitely watched birds scream outta there at similar distances and watched them go one there way thinking I'll get them tomorrow. Well on the last day of season there is no tomorrow, you gotta make it count. I tried, I lost. I accept defeat, hold a little remorse at the very slim possibility of injury, but sleep easy at night knowing I'll get to meet him next year. I've literally dropped a bird cold at 15 steps, when I stood up to go get him I never pumped the slide on my shotgun and I watched him fly away. The next season we killed a tom with a few old pellets in him and small amounts of tainted meat that had been that way for quite awhile, so without a shadow of a doubt know the bird from yesterday sure had the heck scared out of him, but he was probably breeding an ol girl this morning. Good luck with your season, and if you're one to criticize a long distance shot, you yourself have better never taken one outside of 40, just to ensure full ethical responsibility.
2 things, first off paraghraps when you type that long winded, and 2nd if your taking shots that long I NEVER want to be anywhere near where you hunt.
I thought we weren't supposed to be posting about long shots of 40+ yds on OG ??
We lock threads about tss but this crap is free for posting....wth ?
Gods of Thunder
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Quote from: BowBendr on May 08, 2017, 09:22:05 PM
I thought we weren't supposed to be posting about long shots of 40+ yds on OG ??
We lock threads about tss but this crap is free for posting....wth ?
Gods of Thunder
He didn't shoot long distance, he simply "took a poke at it". Obviously doesn't see anything wrong with it either. Maybe he'll grow it of it as he matures.
Quote from: TheSportsman on May 08, 2017, 09:50:19 AM
It's a shame.... Hope bird is OK. Makes me sick when I hear of these folks taking pop shots over 45yd-50yd. I've heard it time and time again. "Well he wasn't coming any closer, had to do something...." How about let him go and hunt him another day?
Agreed.
Go home and pattern your gun at that distance...I'm guessing after you won't waste the shell on another shot that long...but you probably have one of those magic guns that out shoots everything in the world...even physics!!!
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I thought this thread was a joke after the initial post but apparently it isn't.
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Quote from: Neill_Prater on May 08, 2017, 12:17:15 AM
I managed to tag out here in MO on Friday of the second week with a rainy day bird that I located gobbling at the thunder. Otherwise, I would have never gotten out of the Jeep! I just checked the telecheck numbers, 39,215 birds tagged during the regular season.
43,342 for the youth and regular season combined.