2023 spring turkey
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naktabar72
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Freedom: freedom to choose what YOU want: what do you want ? looks like you wanted a Beretta 1301, thats a start, whats next ?
What works for you, is not necessarely working for me.
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Runningfool
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- SW Ontario
I have to admit, once January hits I start counting down the time till turkey season as well.
I am intrigued by you Quebec folk using electronic calls...even if they were legal for turkey in Ontario I don't think I would ever use one but it still makes me wonder what the rationale is behind the differing rules.
I am intrigued by you Quebec folk using electronic calls...even if they were legal for turkey in Ontario I don't think I would ever use one but it still makes me wonder what the rationale is behind the differing rules.
I've taken many with xbows. Mostly in the fall. Spring it's to hard to find the arrow in the alphalfa and winter wheat fields or the tangles of wild strawberry. Now I like to take a different gun each year. I love shotguns
cdn1canhunt
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- southwestern ontario
Real turkey hunters don’t sit in blinds or use electronic calls. We wear full camo, sit still at the base of a tree taller than our head and wider than our backs, we become calling masters with mouth call/diaphragm, peg and slate/pot calls, box calls and wingbone calls. We roost birds the night before and we might move 10 times on a gobbling Tom to try to kill him. We walk sloughs and swamps ridges and valleys getting eaten by mosquitoes and black flies all for the thunderous google of a strutter and a chance to shoot em “ in the face!”
Cameron SS
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Yup. I'm looking forward to doing better this year than last, which would easily be achieved by actually making it into the bush at least once.
Going to stick with my tried tested and true remington 870 pump. Because it ain't broke.
Cameron SS
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Not to mention Quebec will let you fill two tags in one day.... Not sure I'd want to even if I could. Just to extend the hunt a little longer.
You're allowed a second on the same day but only in certain zones. I believe it used to be a second on another day, but I am not sure.
In my zone, there is no fall hunt permitted. I'd be happy to just get one.
I used to move around more and and sit at the base of a tree, but have had too many close calls with imbeciles trying to hunt me. This year I want to sit in a blind, with a comfortable chair, and have a huge yellow sign close by that says "DANGER, HUNTER HERE". Quebec is pretty adamant against stalking turkey because you are in full camo, no orange required, and too many hunters are getting shot by other hunters.
I have several types of calls, and just bought a push button box call. The idea to try the electronic call is two fold; 1) to see if it works better than my calling, which would at least tell me if my calling is bad, and 2) to learn from the caller. I find my slate caller also stops working all the time, I am constantly sanding it to get the sound back. I am still not sure if I will buy one or not... when you've been out there for 3 years in a row with no success, you have to mix things up every year and try different tools, see what works and what doesn't. I would often go out to random spots with my crossbow, then sit in a small chair blind the following day. All depending how I felt, how tired I was, if it was raining or cold. Some people are funny saying "I am a real hunter"... unless you are running after them and wringing their necks by hand, I see no difference being in a blind or any other method. Consider not everyone is as mobile as everyone else, just getting out there and enjoying nature is already awesome.
In my zone, there is no fall hunt permitted. I'd be happy to just get one.
I used to move around more and and sit at the base of a tree, but have had too many close calls with imbeciles trying to hunt me. This year I want to sit in a blind, with a comfortable chair, and have a huge yellow sign close by that says "DANGER, HUNTER HERE". Quebec is pretty adamant against stalking turkey because you are in full camo, no orange required, and too many hunters are getting shot by other hunters.
I have several types of calls, and just bought a push button box call. The idea to try the electronic call is two fold; 1) to see if it works better than my calling, which would at least tell me if my calling is bad, and 2) to learn from the caller. I find my slate caller also stops working all the time, I am constantly sanding it to get the sound back. I am still not sure if I will buy one or not... when you've been out there for 3 years in a row with no success, you have to mix things up every year and try different tools, see what works and what doesn't. I would often go out to random spots with my crossbow, then sit in a small chair blind the following day. All depending how I felt, how tired I was, if it was raining or cold. Some people are funny saying "I am a real hunter"... unless you are running after them and wringing their necks by hand, I see no difference being in a blind or any other method. Consider not everyone is as mobile as everyone else, just getting out there and enjoying nature is already awesome.
I use to sit on the ground a lot but way too many ticks nowadays! I've never felt the need to roost birds. I always get my turkeys and I hunt publc land with crazy hunting pressure.
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cdn1canhunt
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- southwestern ontario
Just teasing about the blinds they work well. I spray my gear down with Sawyers permethrin. Haven’t seen a tick on me in the last 7 seasons. ( gotta get it over the river ). I don’t always roost but I never sit in blinds. I wouldn’t say I run and gun but I do the “ get as close as you dare” to a gobbling Tom and I like to move if needed to kill him. Yeah I bump a Tom or 2 from time to time but it beats trying to stay awake in a chair, staring out the window, eating peanuts waiting for a turkey to walk passed me. Just the way I like to hunt. I like to call a lot as well. I want a fired up strutter to come in gobbling his fool head off. But you gotta feel out the day sometimes they don’t want to play the game my way. So I either head off to a new spot or hunt another day.
cdn1canhunt
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- southwestern ontario
Rather read the cornfield coyote novel than read your crapy comment about them. Just saying…since you did.
Runningfool
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- SW Ontario
I agree. Some people enjoy reading that coyote stuff and comments like the one you quoted reveal arrogance, plain and simple.
Opening day last year I put my blind up directly under a tom roosted. An hour later when sun starts rising he flew away, I didn't even know he was there! I still got him I waited 2 hours before starting to call, finally got him at 11.20.
I hunt with buddies who use calls that sound almost nothing like a turkey and yet toms will run across fields to the sound. I killed alot more toms when all I took was a gun or bow and sat over watching known areas they walk in the afternoons. Last few years I carry great looking decoys in and out and a couple calls and I end up shooting more coyotes and turkeys.
Hunting from a blind with a 5yo will be a new experience for me and I'm guessing success rate will drop but it's time well spent with my daughter. That's the important part
Hunting from a blind with a 5yo will be a new experience for me and I'm guessing success rate will drop but it's time well spent with my daughter. That's the important part
cdn1canhunt
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- southwestern ontario
Blinds are the only way to fly when your are taking the youngsters out. Bring lotsa of snacks and keep it fun.. the successes will come and you will gain the best hunting buddies you will ever get for your lifetime.
I look forward to turkey hunting the second it is over... I'm going to try and get a tom this year with a recurve bow... I recently got back into recurves after a 30 year hiatus. I have taken half a dozen or so with a compound, but this spring, I am going to do "bears & birds" with the recurve.
1963beretta
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