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Post by dadfsr on Apr 26, 2011 15:55:36 GMT -5
Good Luck to all of the brave souls (maybe foolhardy??) thunder chicken pursuers tomorrow!!! Weather forecast certainly looks like it will be a wet day. Just came back from moving my blind set up to this side of my creek-it's come up enough now that a little bit of rain tonight/tomorrow will make it very stupid to try to cross..let alone at zero-dark-thirty in the AM Blind is at least where I can get to it, even though it's not in what I would call a primary spot-in fact I've never set up in this little area before. We'll see how it works PS...Dan-I'm set up west and on top of the rise from the old gravel pit in case your wanting to know
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Post by ski on Apr 27, 2011 2:34:42 GMT -5
Leaving in a half-hour... best of luck to all that are going.
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 27, 2011 3:14:54 GMT -5
Leaving in a half-hour... best of luck to all that are going. Yeah, me too.. Raining now and looks to be rain all day here.. You all have fun, stay as dry as you can and above all be safe..
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Post by featherduster on Apr 27, 2011 3:52:15 GMT -5
Looked at the radar and it appears that it will be raining in about 1 hour or less and it looks like it will last awhile. I will be leaving in 1/2 hour, short drive,long walk. Wet turkeys make for terrible photos.
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Post by dadfsr on Apr 27, 2011 4:20:39 GMT -5
Raining now and will be for awhile but with a very short drive (only because it's raining) and a pretty short walk, I'm ready to head out.
Won't be the same without Dan sitting in the blind with me....
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 27, 2011 4:50:00 GMT -5
We are at our spot. Just dropped Woodmaster off for his walk in. He likes to get in real early as his blind is backed up o a set of pines that turkeys some times to roost in. I'm sitting in the truck killing a little time before I walk in. I do have a small (hopefully still small) ditch to cross. I had to make a detour when I left homes my normal route had water over the road.
What a way to start a season!!!
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Post by HighCotton on Apr 27, 2011 6:23:07 GMT -5
Y'all are tougher than me. I woke up a bit before 4. Looked outside and pulled up the radar. Went back to bed!
I kind of hate that disappointing feeling once I've had a little coffee and start thinking..."Man, I wish I had gone out." Oh well, tomorrow is another day.
Good luck guys!
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 27, 2011 6:29:32 GMT -5
Believe it or not - it has quit raining here for now.
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Post by dadfsr on Apr 27, 2011 7:39:17 GMT -5
It quit here for about 20 then started in again. When I have enough reception to pull up radar though it looks like it might be quitting in another hour for awhile. Nothing but birds and squirrels so far....
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Post by drs on Apr 27, 2011 7:55:58 GMT -5
Believe it or not - it has quit raining here for now. It was quiet last night, with little rain. But there was lots of lightning north of my area. Got some heavy rainfall this morning but has slacked up a bit.
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 27, 2011 8:27:42 GMT -5
No rain here for now. I even saw some big bright object upinthe sky a couple times.
I've seen2 hens and 1 Jake so far. They wereway across a 30acrefield. They would pop their heads up when I called butdidnt seem interested in coming tojoin my decoys
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Post by tickman1961 on Apr 27, 2011 8:29:23 GMT -5
Keep after em, don't forget to post pictures
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Post by drs on Apr 27, 2011 8:34:39 GMT -5
No rain here for now. I even saw some big bright object upinthe sky a couple times. I've seen2 hens and 1 Jake so far. They wereway across a 30acrefield. They would pop their heads up when I called butdidnt seem interested in coming tojoin my decoys Haven't seen the sun here in days! My Brother he thinks the Government is fooling around with H.A.A.R.P.!!! He claims he saw strange lights in the north sky before all this rain hit the area. I saw a Turkey Hen yesterday afternoon near our home (we call her the "Field Chick") but have not seen very many or heard gobbling here for the past two weeks, other than just four in our back field with only one Tom.
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Post by bigrutdog on Apr 27, 2011 8:49:23 GMT -5
Well i shot the one of biggest Toms I've seen with my bow this morning! However, my dad and I looked for almost two hours in the rain to come up empty handed. really sucks.. Thought I made a perfect shot but no blood, just a big pile of feathers. That bird was so hot he gobbled his head off all morning. It was tuff hearing him at only 100 yards with the rain coming down. This was my first hunt out of a blind and I learned a lot..
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 27, 2011 10:48:57 GMT -5
Well i shot the one of biggest Toms I've seen with my bow this morning! However, my dad and I looked for almost two hours in the rain to come up empty handed. really sucks.. Thought I made a perfect shot but no blood, just a big pile of feathers. That bird was so hot he gobbled his head off all morning. It was tuff hearing him at only 100 yards with the rain coming down. This was my first hunt out of a blind and I learned a lot.. Boy that is a shame. Turkeys don't leave too good of a blood trail to begin with and wet ground and rain sure doesn't help matters. Better luck next time.
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 27, 2011 10:54:31 GMT -5
I'm hunting about a 30 acre field. I've seen maybe 16 turkeys so far. About half and half hens to jakes.
NO longbeards!!
I had 4 jakes in at 30 yards to me. They didnot care for Bob the decoy and left the way theycame
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 27, 2011 11:06:01 GMT -5
Light rain now.. A little thunder thrown in too..
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Post by HillBillyJeff on Apr 27, 2011 11:48:32 GMT -5
Opening morning and there is a light drizzle. I head for my blind at 5:15 and I am glad I am set up under my deer stand as it gives me a bit of a roof from all the rain. I start seeing some birds fly down to the north of me.
Along the woods at the west edge of the 4 acres I see a lone tom. He is walking north. He walks a bit, goes into a mini display, then walks some more. I am all in position for him. He turns when he gets to the north end of the field and is coming right for me. Perfect. Then he goes into the brush. No!
Its all good, I still have birds to the north. I glance that way and oh my there are birds everywhere. Northeast of me there are three hens, they end up jumping the ditch and going south out into the Ateen acres. Out in the field north of me there are several birds moving around. Along the edge of the woods to the north walks a nice tom my direction. Please keep coming. He does. When he gets out of sight behind the tree my stand is against, I get all set up. Sure enough, he walks through the cut through between the corner of the ditch and the corner of the woods. Just a couple more steps. Boom, turkey down!!! 6:15.
I was so happy to see that all my scouting and watching has paid off. I put myself right where the birds were going to go, got my ten yard shot and dropped a pretty decent bird.
Only problem is that no one told the tom he wasn't suppose to get back up. He did, and he ran west into the woods with his broken wing hanging. I stared in disbelief. Moments earlier he was lying on the ground thralling about, and now he was out of sight. I go to where I shot him and there are feathers all over the place. I even find the wad right on the ground where the bird was. How in the world does he get back up. I was aiming for the neck and he must have stepped when I shot, but still, it was a ten yard shot with number four shot and I even hit him with the wad.
I go to where he went into the woods and find more feathers, a lot of feathers. I also find an old den. Into the woods there is a woven wire fence where there is only one spot he could get through at since I knew he didn't fly over. I didn't find any more feathers past the den. I am certain he is down in there hiding. I barricade him in, and continue searching the woods. Nothing. If he went north into the neighbor's place I can't find him since the neighbor is out there hunting on the vary north end.
I go to the house, get a shovel and proceed to dig him out of the den. Of course, he isn't in the den. How he survived is beyond me. He even he isn't mortally wounded, I don't think he can make it without being able to fly.
It is always an adventure when I go turkey hunting. The arrowhead I found didn't help. Buying the tail mounting kit several months ago is looking like the jinx I thought it might be by buying one before I got the bird. But I was there, I had a gift card, and I didn't need anything else. Dry my stuff off, and I will be heading back out noonish or so. My three straight years of an opening day bird is looking kind of shaky right now.
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Post by tickman1961 on Apr 27, 2011 12:08:25 GMT -5
Wow, two down with no recovery....keep after em
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Post by gwinnman on Apr 27, 2011 12:46:46 GMT -5
Thanks for the post guys. It almost makes me feel like I'm out in the woods even though I'm stuck at work and can't get out until Friday evening.
Keep them coming!!!
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