Turkey success pic thread!

[SteveAndTheCrigBoys]

First spring bird in 5 years of trying, NE Washington. Tough conditions this year with quiet birds, tons of lone hens and hot weather. Eventually found some vocal birds and this guy's girlfriends led him right to me.

 

[UncleBone]

First spring bird in 5 years of trying, NE Washington. Tough conditions this year with quiet birds, tons of lone hens and hot weather. Eventually found some vocal birds and this guy's girlfriends led him right to me.

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Congrats man!!

 

[dtrkyman]

Got to share camp in Missouri with James Harrison, think he has feathers!


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[UncleBone]

Got to share camp in Missouri with James Harrison, think he has feathers!


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Where at in Mo? I grew up near springfield, and have family in macon. The turkey hunting there rocks!

 

[dtrkyman]

North east…Kahoka area.


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[bruno59]

Got this tom this mourning public land montana

 

[Carr5vols]

 

[Pankowsj]

 

[gonhunting247]

Finished up Monday with my third and final bird for the spring. Started slow with a Jake, but finished up with a couple Toms. Last one was in the Big Timber while looking for spring bears!!

 

[borntohuntforcedtowork]

Matthew and Curtis, along with the family, showed up yesterday. Curtis has a foot giving him trouble so he elected to stay in their Airbnb this morning while Matthew and his 5 year old went hunting with me. We found this bird around 9:30 and killed him around 10:30, calling him off of private and onto national forest 75 yards or so.

The kid sat beside me 20 yards behind his dad while we work the bird. Once in the right location it didn't take too long and we are pretty sure it would have went quicker if not for a coyote that got close.

The gobbler had went quiet for a couple minutes or so and had been 75 yards last time he gobbled. I'm assuming he was at the fence then and went quiet after crossing. He was going to pop up fairly close so I yelped hard to get a response and he fired back from 50 yards and out of site then I yelped again and he gobbled from 35 yards and Matthew could see him. I never did see the bird but Matthew killed him at 31 yards.

During both of the close gobbles I was looking right at the kid beside me and his eyes got huge while he whispered (as quiet as a 5 year old normally does) " He's really close.". We got lucky on the setup since the gobbler was not able to get to a point where he could see us without getting shot.

It was a fun hunt

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Beautiful bird congrats!

 

[Foldem]

Colorado tag #2 filled.

 

[Foldem]

My son’s first gobbler

 

[roosterdown]

Daughter’s first time hunting anything this morning turned out well!
She gave him a lead headache at 15 yards.
Will see about better photos later.

 

[kpk]

 

[Huntsalot]

Got this one this morning with a Ruger 22 Hornet. Southwestern Virginia in the mountains of Bland county

That's wild you guys can use rifles in the spring season. Is it the whole spring season or do rifles have their own special season? We can't even use rifles in the fall anymore in PA. My Ruger .22 hornet was always my favorite, it's now a dedicated groundhog gun.

 

[ShortMountain91]

Finally got on the board after a slow start this season. Missed one last weekend for the first time in many years. Redeemed myself yesterday on this one. Almost let him walk because the grass was so tall I couldn't tell if he was a Jake or a Tom. At the very last second I saw the full beard and let him have it. Turned out to be a double beard too!

 

[cnelk]

My first Wyoming turkey. Stayed in my cabin and hunted the nearby public land.

 

[Sierra Hunter]

Never really figured the birds out this season, felt like they were on a different rhythm than me but still got a couple in the bag. Jake and a tom

 

[FlyGuy]

My first Eastern. Made a 9hr drive from Houston to North Arkansas to hunt my uncle’s 180 acres. I thought it would be great since they see plenty of birds there each Fall and no one has hunted turkeys on his place in over 20 years. I worked the area hard my first morning but couldn’t turn up any sign of anything. So, I bailed on that and went to plan B. I drove another hour to a large piece of public land with a walk-in only area. This was the first weekend of the Arkansas season and there were plenty of trucks along the roads. I’m not a very experienced turkey hunter and it was my first time ever setting foot in these woods. In fact I’d only looked over maps while downloading them to OnX. All I know to do is outwork others and try to create my own luck. So, I picked a ridge, Ditched the day pack & loaded up my my Reckoning with camp and 3 days of food, and set out with a few hours until dark. By 10 am the next morning I’d covered over 7 miles and still hadn’t heard a single Goble. But, I’d recently found some J shaped scat so I was encouraged. There was a small clearing/food plot ahead of me and as I got close I spotted a turkey thru the brush that was just inside the field on my side, maybe 30 yards. It was walking away and didn’t seem to see me, but it passed through the opening before I knew what it was (Jake’s are not legal here). I spent about 30 minutes creeping the last 10 yards to get set up on the edge but no birds were in sight. I’d just gotten set up and ready to start calling when I looked up to see a Tom all puffed up in the field about 80 yards away. He was doing all he could to get this hen’s attention. I had a great time watching that display. Every time she’d look in his direction he would inflate like a pufferfish, but she wouldn’t pay him any mind and just go about pecking around in the tall grass. I decided not to call as they could clearly see my location and I didn’t have a decoy, so I decided to just wait and watch and not risk spooking them, but if they moved over the rise and out of sight I would do some soft calls. I guess it was the right call, that hen ended up feeding my way and passed in front of me at only 6 yards. The Tom followed and when he stuck his head up at 28 yards I let him have it. About a month ago I bought that Rossi Tuffy single shot, crack barreled .410 with TSS ammo and it really did it’s job! Barely a flop. And only 1 pellet hit the breast. I had about a 5 mile walk back to the truck, but I was able to do most of it on the gravel road. I can’t tell you how proud I was to be walking out with that Tom slung over my shoulder every time a truck full of hunters passed by.

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[Riflenut]

That's wild you guys can use rifles in the spring season. Is it the whole spring season or do rifles have their own special season? We can't even use rifles in the fall anymore in PA. My Ruger .22 hornet was always my favorite, it's now a dedicated groundhog gun.

Yep, whole season. I grew up hunting in Pa, moved here in 2006. I was amazed that we could use rifles in the spring. Sad to hear that Pa now no longer even allows them for the fall season.