2013 Spring Turkey!!!

ya im wondering if that is my problem. this is my first turkey hunt and out of all the days ive been out i have only heard a gobler 1 day. i saw a hen run that way and he was not heard from since. i have been out quite a bit and dont seem to be having any luck.
 
Yacup said:
ya im wondering if that is my problem. this is my first turkey hunt and out of all the days ive been out i have only heard a gobler 1 day. i saw a hen run that way and he was not heard from since. i have been out quite a bit and dont seem to be having any luck.
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You need to go at night without a gun, no calling just sit and watch in the trees for the gobblers heading back to roost, once you find what trees they Roost in, when you go in the morning sit like 75 yards from the trees and do a couple soft purrs or clucks and you will maybe have better luck. Also look for dusting areas, wing drags from strut zones and dusting areas
 
Yacup said:
ya im wondering if that is my problem. this is my first turkey hunt and out of all the days ive been out i have only heard a gobler 1 day. i saw a hen run that way and he was not heard from since. i have been out quite a bit and dont seem to be having any luck.
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Sign will tell you, No tracks, No fresh scratching's , No dust bowls, No hearing any gobbling or any turkey talk, No sightings in fields for miles and better yet No other hunters tells you there is a problem. A lot of Northern States and Ontario has population problems this year.

A hunter may have a hunting property with birds and believes what he see's is how it is, but that is far from the truth, he's lucky to have birds in his places. I thank the second bird tag in Ontario, my opinion has never changed, it was brought out to early and need to be controlled with the WMU's with the population...
 
Adrian J Hare said:
Sign will tell you, No tracks, No fresh scratching's , No dust bowls, No hearing any gobbling or any turkey talk, No sightings in fields for miles and better yet No other hunters tells you there is a problem. A lot of Northern States and Ontario has population problems this year.

A hunter may have a hunting property with birds and believes what he see's is how it is, but that is far from the truth, he's lucky to have birds in his places. I thank the second bird tag in Ontario, my opinion has never changed, it was brought out to early and need to be controlled with the WMU's with the population...
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I have the opposite on my property, there are still 7 mature toms I see every day
 
Adrian J Hare said:
Sign will tell you, No tracks, No fresh scratching's , No dust bowls, No hearing any gobbling or any turkey talk, No sightings in fields for miles and better yet No other hunters tells you there is a problem. A lot of Northern States and Ontario has population problems this year.

A hunter may have a hunting property with birds and believes what he see's is how it is, but that is far from the truth, he's lucky to have birds in his places. I thank the second bird tag in Ontario, my opinion has never changed, it was brought out to early and need to be controlled with the WMU's with the population...
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I think the exploding coyote population in southern Ontario has more to do with the declining turkey population than the second tag system.
 
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Got this fella a while ago, just found the camera that had the picture on it... 16 3/4 lb and -1/2 spur.. And he was delicious...
 

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Got mine on Monday morning. Took some advice from here, figured out the travel routes of these birds, set up and waited for them to come by. Was done at 630am. Bird was 16lbs, 6 inch beard and 1/2 inch spurs. Seen and heard multiple gobblers every time we were out, had a hard time getting them in close enough this year. We got another bird last week, my uncle shot it, I called for him. His first turkey ever, it was a great day for us both.
 
Me and my boy got a Tom this morning! 21 lbs 11 oz and some will call me a liar but I took it at 48 yards using a 3 inch 2 oz #5 Winchester Double X magnum turkey load using a jelly head choke threaded into a 870 Remington with a scope mounted on a Cantlever barrel.

 
Took a drive this afternoon and in a place that only Jay and I have seen a bird last year once there was a adult bird strutting in the edge of a hardwoods to one hen that I can see. 3:30pm I head home and get my stuff and back I go. I take down the far side of the hardwoods and then cut towards the field side that the bird was in and I get close to the edge I'm looking and can not see the birds. Sitting wondering if they busted me I just slowly looked around and at the bottom of the field some 150 yards away I spot the fan. I turn and get on the tree and set myself. I notice with the binos there is 5 hens and one with a beard as well. I start to give a series of subtle yelps and have learned NOT to cut to birds this season. The hens fire up and then a gobble. I wait a few seconds and yelp once again and he double gobbles and I see the hens all turn and start my way up inside the woods. I get the gun set and wait and watch as they make their way. I yelped about 4-5 times real soft and the hens speed up a little and the gobbler comes along behind with the tail fanned out. Closer and closer they work to the place I click off the safety and a second or two later I spot a hen on a slow run right at me. The hen makes it to about 10 feet and the crosshairs are on the gobbler as he makes to my guess of 45 yards. Suddenly the gobbler drops out of strut and throws the head up as I figure that the close hen made me, but its to late. This was the perfect time to have a gun that you know what is going to happen with the pattern when fired.

At 4:30pm the 20 gauge sent down a 20 ga, 3in #6 Hevi 13 sandwich that made contact perfectly and the gobbler drops to the ground with NO movement what so ever. My 2013 season is done, its been tough as the bird numbers are not much better then last and most of the properties I hunt are very low on birds. All across the northern USA is the same and it makes it tough to kill a bird if you can't find them. Over all I have done well and am very lucky to use up some tags.

Wolfsden weight - 20.84
spurs 7/8 matching
Beard 9 1/4




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Adrian J Hare said:
Took a drive this afternoon and in a place that only Jay and I have seen a bird last year once there was a adult bird strutting in the edge of a hardwoods to one hen that I can see. 3:30pm I head home and get my stuff and back I go. I take down the far side of the hardwoods and then cut towards the field side that the bird was in and I get close to the edge I'm looking and can not see the birds. Sitting wondering if they busted me I just slowly looked around and at the bottom of the field some 150 yards away I spot the fan. I turn and get on the tree and set myself. I notice with the binos there is 5 hens and one with a beard as well. I start to give a series of subtle yelps and have learned NOT to cut to birds this season. The hens fire up and then a gobble. I wait a few seconds and yelp once again and he double gobbles and I see the hens all turn and start my way up inside the woods. I get the gun set and wait and watch as they make their way. I yelped about 4-5 times real soft and the hens speed up a little and the gobbler comes along behind with the tail fanned out. Closer and closer they work to the place I click off the safety and a second or two later I spot a hen on a slow run right at me. The hen makes it to about 10 feet and the crosshairs are on the gobbler as he makes to my guess of 45 yards. Suddenly the gobbler drops out of strut and throws the head up as I figure that the close hen made me, but its to late. This was the perfect time to have a gun that you know what is going to happen with the pattern when fired.

At 4:30pm the 20 gauge sent down a 20 ga, 3in #6 Hevi 13 sandwich that made contact perfectly and the gobbler drops to the ground with NO movement what so ever. My 2013 season is done, its been tough as the bird numbers are not much better then last and most of the properties I hunt are very low on birds. All across the northern USA is the same and it makes it tough to kill a bird if you can't find them. Over all I have done well and am very lucky to use up some tags.

Wolfsden weight - 20.84
spurs 7/8 matching
Beard 9 1/4
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Great story. Nice bird!
 
Well my season has come to an end. Pretty happy for my first turkey season...first day, first hour I got my Tom...then I went out 10 more times (40 hours) and couldn't get a second! Actually that's not entirely true - I passed up on a good sized Tom so my nephew could have a shot at him and I also passed on a good sized jake because I didn't want my season to be over at that time. So all in all I'm one happy, hooked turkey hunter!
 
Like the Leafs....there is always Next Year!#=/+?!

As always I start looking forward to the next Turkey season June 1st of the previous year!!! This year was looking good scouted birds had 2 Tank Toms coming through my hunting grounds every 3 days.Opening day lined up they would be passing by on the 25th !! On the 21st got so sick thought I was gonna head to the big Turkey hunt in the sky!!! Needless to say missed opening day 2 so called fellow Turkey hunters noticed I wasn't out opted to walk through the back and allow themselves access to my area they deny it but i followed their tracks out to where only they parked 2 weeks later. Needless to say coughing and hacking didn't help hunting so this year everything was scared crapless by the time i got out.None for me but like the Leafs ......there's always next year!!!:(
 
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