Any Ontario turkeys yet?

[FishDoc]

If hunting was just about the meat we'd just go to a butcher, it's way cheaper. You just can't explain the experience and high you get from being out in the bush, watching the sun rise, taking in all nature has to offer, and hearing that gobble in a distance. Then to be able to call that Tom in to range and harvest that bird. It just doesn't get better than that. Can't wait to introduce my 2 boys to this experience.

BINGO! my two boys are 2 and 4 - but I got them wanting to go out after bagging a 21 lb'r with a 9 inch beard heh heh

 

[Tom_f]

 

[Doug]

Got my first bird of my turkey career yesterday. Third time I was out, 0700 hrs, near North Augusta (near Spencerville), Eastern Ontario. It was a smaller Jake, with a modest beard and hardly any spurs, but running and gunning with a local guide, and a new shotgun, made for an awesome day. In the end I got 5-6 pounds of breast meat, and learned some new turkey tactics. As for the new gun, a Benelli Super-Nova, awesome !

Were you in the County forest, or out in the agricultural lands? I had a hunt camp back by the forest and we never saw turkeys after the snow melted. Lots of them in the late fall and winter, but once there was new plant growth they went to the crop fields.

Doug

 

[Winchester-1897]

Got a Jake yesterday morning,only about 17 Lbs though. I was only set up about 10 minutes when three Jakes came in together so close I didn't take a shot for a full minutes until I got the one isolated from the rest.