to honor the LONG wait....

[sswv]

well, another WV deer season has come and gone for me as of Tuesday the 31st. I was very blessed with another good year and another taxidermist bill. I have traps set and some inside "honey do" things but I just can't get gobbler season off my mind. Ours starts April 21st so I have that LONG wait ahead so, in honor of the upcoming season I just bought another 20ga turkey gun to tinker with. The traps, honey-dos, a new gun, grandkids and whatever else pops up will help with the wait so my question is....what do y'all do to pass the time waiting on gobbler season.

[Brian Fahs]

Work.......for now.

I'm set to retire this summer with a good amount of time off to hunt turkeys this spring in multiple states.

[Tom007]

Enjoyed my deer season also. I spend time scouting new stand spots for deer, setting them up this winter in the off season. Snow tracks, this years rubs give me clues here. I'm always tinkering with my deer and turkey guns, getting ready for this spring. Taking a few vacations with my honey, then I'll start turkey scouting. Plenty to do for sure....

[Lcmacd 58]

I waterfowl hunt ..
Then crappie fish ....
And I'm always looking for turkeys..

[YoungGobbler]

I do snowshoe hare hunting during winter... But I'll mostly work, do side jobs if possible, do a few things on the list here and there... And keep an eye open for turkeys until opening day!

[Greg Massey]

Just finished a great deer season myself and now it's back to getting ready for spring turkey season. I play calls year round, so I will continue to enjoy those and probably buy a few more new calls.


Also I plan on doing some more frost seeding of clover in the next couple of months ...


Also spend time with my friends on Old Gobbler chatting ...

[Bowguy]

I do snowshoe hare hunting during winter... But I'll mostly work, do side jobs if possible, do a few things on the list here and there... And keep an eye open for turkeys until opening day!

Young gobbler idk why but I assumed you were from more southerly states. Do you travel or live with the hares?

[Bowguy]

Idk as I age none of it seems long anymore. To me it's all a lifestyle and all I know. That and the fact libs are strange to be polite.
I like the "off" season. Our deer season ended Jan 1. I was mentally done in Nov after I'd shot enough deer for the freezer.
Got a new turkey gun again, ordering parts now, making mouth calls, got another bird dog pup I'm working, running rabbit dogs, about to start ice fishing, etc it never ends.
I like the scouting, patterning, videoing before season. Getting ready for youth day and early season. All an enjoyable part  of the processes to me.

[Yoder409]

Trapping right now.  Probably start filling my 3 doe tags tomorrow with my flintlock.

Our season doesn't come in til May 3rd.      But, I think there's an Osceola trip in the works around the 3rd week of March.

Retirement is nice.  I fill my time with WHATEVER I WANT.   

[GobbleNut]

Retirement is nice.  I fill my time with WHATEVER I WANT. 

  Yep, but there are unforeseen drawbacks. For me, at least, I was expecting to spend a lot more time doing outdoorsy stuff...hunting, fishing, camping, etc....but as I have begun to "age out", I find that my mentality on all of it is changing, not to mention the obvious physical changes that occur over time.

Mentally, I just don't have the same drive to succeed that I did up until my mid-sixties. I find myself just being more content to be "out there" rather than pushing myself to kill a gobbler, buck, or whatever. Up until those mid-sixties, there was no debate about whether I was going to climb that mountain or walk those few extra miles to get to where I needed to be. That debate occurs on a regular basis now.

...Not to mention the physical "deterioration" that has taken place over the last several years. The old body really started going downhill about the same time. Now, don't get me wrong. I am not decrepit in any sense of the word...just ain't the same as just a few years ago.

In summary, getting old (which generally comes right alongside of retirement for most of us, I think) is a real "bee-ach".  The end result of that is that I actually do about the same amount of the outdoorsy stuff I did during my working years. ...But At least I do it on my own terms nowadays.   

[Gooserbat]

I'm going to be frying bacon unless I cut the end off another finger.

[GobbleNut]

I'm going to be frying bacon unless I cut the end off another finger.

Been there, done that...more than once. It hurts. Hope it was only the tip...
You do that making turkey calls? 

[YoungGobbler]

I do snowshoe hare hunting during winter... But I'll mostly work, do side jobs if possible, do a few things on the list here and there... And keep an eye open for turkeys until opening day!

Young gobbler idk why but I assumed you were from more southerly states. Do you travel or live with the hares?

That's funny 'cause it's quite the opposite actually! I live in Canada. Here it's not rabbit, it's hare. I hunt them on snow...

[Bowguy]

I do snowshoe hare hunting during winter... But I'll mostly work, do side jobs if possible, do a few things on the list here and there... And keep an eye open for turkeys until opening day!

Young gobbler idk why but I assumed you were from more southerly states. Do you travel or live with the hares?

That's funny 'cause it's quite the opposite actually! I live in Canada. Here it's not rabbit, it's hare. I hunt them on snow...

I know the differences. We are about the start of hare range.
You run em w dogs?

[Happy]

I am constantly busy trying to be unbusy during turkey season.

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