Hunting Updates!

[HillclimberWV]

Im on the board. If i can get tapatalk to cooperate i will get pics up this afternoon. Have to go to work for a while.

[Muzzy61]

Im on the board. If i can get tapatalk to cooperate i will get pics up this afternoon. Have to go to work for a while.

Congrats, good job.

[JeffC]

Congrats Hillclimber! If your able to get pictures up this afternoon of early tonight, I will get you loaded on the scoreboard!! Looking forward to your pictures!!

[HillclimberWV]

I went to a property i have had luck the past couple years and know typically what they like to do. I took a jake decoy with me because they like to run the fields and theres not much cover on the edges.

I wasn't able to roost them but had a good idea where to set up. So I got parked this morning and didnt make it 50 yards from the truck when i heard one gobble well before daylight on the ridge above me. They were in the group of trees i wanted to set up under. So i just sat down and waited for them to pitch out.

As it got lighter i could pick out several birds in the trees only 70 yards away but couldnt see any beards. There were 3 gobbling but one sounded like a jake. I didnt make a call just watched them pitch out into the field and work out of sight. I waited a couple more minutes and made some calls to make sure they were working away from me. Once verified i backed down the ridge and made a big loop to below the field they were in.

I got to a small knoll in line with where i thought the turkeys would go and set up my decoy jus lt so the head was poking over the knoll so they would have to cross it to see the full thing and would be within 25 yards of my setup. I was kinda out in the open but figured they would focus on the decoy.

After getting setup i made several series of calls over the course of 35 mins or so. The gobblers had gone quiet and i was debating moving up for a peak when i see a hens head pop up. Once she sees the jake decoy she starts clucking and makes a beeline for it. As shes clucking the gobblers cut loose jist on the other side of the knoll. I see another head pop up but its a hen. Then 3 white heads come over the knoll. One in full strut. I saw a full fan so i put my red dot on him and let them work fully into view. Once they did i think they knew something was up they turned like they were going to spook so i let the hammer drop.

All in all it was a fun hunt.  I still have a tag in WV and 2 in PA. Hoping to get back out this weekend.

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[JeffC]

Congrats again Hillclimber!! Great job with pictures and write up, will get you entered tonight.

10th Legion you and I need to upgrade our birds to get back on the board.

Good luck Hillclimber on getting another Tom, Safe travels and Happy Hunting!!

[10th Legionaire]

Congrats again Hillclimber!! Great job with pictures and write up, will get you entered tonight.

10th Legion you and I need to upgrade our birds to get back on the board.

Good luck Hillclimber on getting another Tom, Safe travels and Happy Hunting!!

Congrats Hillclimber!

I didn't think mine would hold up but that's good from a team standpoint that we could upgrade.

I think I mentioned earlier I have a couple out of state hunts coming up and can hopefully upgrade my score. We shall see.

[JeffC]

Okay Hillclimber you are on the board. Kaleb, Keith and I are on the clock to go find some big old Toms!!!
I will be heading out Saturday, probably heading back to area I started the season on.
We are having a great year, let's keep this going till the end       

[HillclimberWV]

Yeah keep at it. Best year we have had as a team.

[Kaleb978]

Haha, congrats! Talk about me feeling the pressure. Birds are henned up badly here but I still have lots of time and lots of birds. Congrats to all who have tagged out so far.

[lacire]

  yeah the team is on a roll this year. 

[ScottTaulbee]

Had a rough morning in Indiana yesterday, very cloudy, very humid, and was raining off and on. Heard 3 separate gobblers gobbling on the roost, they gobbled to a live owl from about 6:20 until about 6:22 or so and the owl quit and so did the gobbling. I was about a mile loop to get to the ridge it sounded like they were on and when I got there it was crickets, I walked about 5 miles and never heard a gobble, left that place after a hiker came through and went to another about an hour away and it was a jungle, weeds to my belly button and I'm 6'2. Walked about a mile in there and never saw any sign or heard anything. Then it started raining pretty good around lunch so I went on back home. I'll get em another day


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[notsure]

Congratulations Hillclimber!

[JeffC]

Turkeys are on STRIKE! Hunted yesterday, only heard 1 gobble at 5:50, way after 1st light, so far away I barely heard him. Usually hear 5 to 8 Toms gobbling in this area. Was very humid and warm. I headed into area where Ive heard a Tom the last 2 times I hunted this area, nothing, I was heading back to starting point when I hear Tom gobble, same one as earlier, moved closer, but I know where he will be going, he struts in front yard of a house. I am across a heavy traveled county road, behind private property from him, over 300yds. Nothing else to work, I try calling to him, gave him 1 hour, nothing. Moved to different area, very little sign, nothing will answer calls.
Headed back to different area tomorrow, rain in forecast. Will be looking at fields. Good luck to those still hunting!

[austinc]

I had a tough first 2 days of my trip, but killed this one on morning of day 3, 10 minutes after he flew down.

[JeffC]

Congrats austin, glad you were able to get on 1! Do you think it's an upgrade on your 1st Tom? Your 1st was a nice Tom.