Gobblers!

Jimss

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Anyone counting down the days until gobbler season? I sure can't wait to hit the hills here in Colo and Nebraska. I saw another post with the title "it's that magical time of year" and thought it may have been referring to gobbler season. It can't get here soon enough. Good luck to all you turkey fanatics out there!
 
Sure am. I've got a better spot here in TN than I've had in a long time. Might actually have a chance to kill a couple this year LOL. Good luck everyone. Being from TN, a draw for a spring turkey tag seems foreign to me. We buy a hunting license and a gun hunting license and then you can kill 4 gobblers. We actually have a lot of birds on public land too, but they get a lot of pressure.
 
Sure am. I've got a better spot here in TN than I've had in a long time. Might actually have a chance to kill a couple this year LOL. Good luck everyone. Being from TN, a draw for a spring turkey tag seems foreign to me. We buy a hunting license and a gun hunting license and then you can kill 4 gobblers. We actually have a lot of birds on public land too, but they get a lot of pressure.

Same here in Texas, we have Rio Grands everywhere. You have tags on your standard hunting license, no need for a draw.
 
Already got a backpack hunt on the calendar for the last weekend of March, can't wait to get after it and I won't complain if we come across a few pigs too.
 
Definitely! Still a ways out from now (April) up here in Ontario, but I already have two areas identified. We are allowed to take two bearded birds in the spring, so long as they aren't on the same day. I am targeting a buddies farm for the first bird, followed by a public land backpack hunt for the second one about a week after season opens. I have roosted birds in about 5 different locations this fall, and anticipate that they will be within a mile or so by the time season opens. My bow skills are not likely to be proficient enough by then, so the Mossberg will get to bark a few times hopefully.

Was annoying the wife with some calls in the basement last week! haha
 
I've got a fistful of LE UT turkeys points that I have been accumulating. Not sure why I keep buying a point...because I choose to hunt the OTC season. I've had zero trouble getting turkeys to talk during the May hunt. Too many guys think the UT LE turkey tags are some big deal. If you know how to hunt turkeys (actually calling them in and not running them down), you should do just fine.
 
I've got a fistful of LE UT turkeys points that I have been accumulating. Not sure why I keep buying a point...because I choose to hunt the OTC season. I've had zero trouble getting turkeys to talk during the May hunt. Too many guys think the UT LE turkey tags are some big deal. If you know how to hunt turkeys (actually calling them in and not running them down), you should do just fine.
I like hunting archery turkey like elk. I'm not the serious about decoying or sitting a blind unless the kids want to go. I drew a southern tag two years ago and got snowed out of where I wanted to go. So yes sometimes the otc tags has better dates. It's only been a couple years since they have really expanded the otc to state wide.

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Wow, good to see there are a few other gobblerholics out there dusting off the calls, shotgun/bow, and decoys!
 
5 tags at home in Alabama, probably will do a Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota trip and possibly a Tennessee and end in Kentucky. 16 archery only tags.
 
I'm trying to find a place in Colorado to kill a turkey after my Nebraska hunt. I'm wanting to kill a Merriams in the mountains.
 
N2TRKYS, It's too bad you don't live a little closer to Colo and I'd swap easterns for merriams. I have a "secret" spot here in Colo that you'd have to put a pistol to my head to offer any details! Decent merriam spots tend to be hidden treasures.....any way it seems that way where I hunt here in Colo.
 
N2TRKYS, It's too bad you don't live a little closer to Colo and I'd swap easterns for merriams. I have a "secret" spot here in Colo that you'd have to put a pistol to my head to offer any details! Decent merriam spots tend to be hidden treasures.....any way it seems that way where I hunt here in Colo.

I can understand that. I wish I had private land that I could take you on here. All I have is public land around here. I hunt a diy outfiffed place in NE that has hybrids. If it wasn't such a good place, I'd stop going and finish my slam. Lol

Maybe I can luck up on a Merriam at some point.
 
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5 tags at home in Alabama, probably will do a Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota trip and possibly a Tennessee and end in Kentucky. 16 archery only tags.
Do you hunt the Peabody Property's in Ky? I'm planning on actually hunting turkeys this year. I've only shot at them while archery hunting for deer.

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N2TURKEYS, I bet you'll do fine on the merriams if you are willing to put in the time and boot leather! Since you're in Nebraska you may try heading over the border into Wyo. There are quite a few merriams in the NE corner.
 
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