Anyone hunting this fall anywhere? Pennsylvania's season starts around the beginning of November. Hopefully harvest my buck with a bow before then, so I can concentrate fully on the birds.
Like trying to heard butterflies down there... entertaining to do a turkey drive in kansas lol.We usually go out to Kansas for some fall turkey! It is a good time but hunting them is way different than in the spring!
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You made me laugh, reminded me of my father-in-law. He had 19 Turkeys that started roosting on his front yard deck rails a few years back. He thought it was a pretty cool thing, he let them be for a week or so, went out and looked at the mess and suggested I take up Turkey hunting.those dang nuisance birds are vocal year round here.
So I had chores to do at the house on sunday. I have not been home during daylight hours and we have lots of nuisance birds around me. So putting the deck furniture away for the winter and low and behold, my deck is full of turkey feces. Not just one or tow piles but dozens off them.
in Idaho you are allowed 5 a year. For me the tags are to expensive and the birds to easy to deal with.
Oh man. Bust up a good sized flock and get in the middle of them. That will get ya excited!Missouri archery deer tags include 2 turkey tags, so I'll stick a gobbler if he happens to walk by while I'm bow hunting. But, I never buy fall turkey shotgun tags, and go exclusively after them.. I don't find them very much fun to hunt when they aren't gobbling.
FYI- Turkey loads will roll a coyote out to about 50 yards. I have done it several times with DRT results. I shoot 12ga 3" mag #4s typically. Not sure how 6 shot would do but the number 4s or larger in a tight pattern put dogs down.Was able to harvest a gobbler with an 8" beard on Saturday. 2 hours later my father got into another flock and harvested a jake of the year. Had a decent 4 point buck walk up to 15 yards of us and jumped 2 coyotes but could only watch them look at us as we didn't have the .223 with us. Great day in the woods. Hoping to harvest a rut-crazed buck the rest of this week. Looking like my sister will have to wait to try to get a Thanksgiving day bird as our season comes back in for the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. Good luck to the rest of you looking for a fall bird!
He was at around 100 yards in the woods. If he was at even 60 I would have been putting it on him. I killed a gobbler at 62 a couple years ago, but I like to have them a lot closer. We use Hevi-Shot Magnum Blend.FYI- Turkey loads will roll a coyote out to about 50 yards. I have done it several times with DRT results. I shoot 12ga 3" mag #4s typically. Not sure how 6 shot would do but the number 4s or larger in a tight pattern put dogs down.
Yeah 100 is too far... Just hate letting them go lol. Nice job on the toms. Have pictures?He was at around 100 yards in the woods. If he was at even 60 I would have been putting it on him. I killed a gobbler at 62 a couple years ago, but I like to have them a lot closer. We use Hevi-Shot Magnum Blend.
No doubt, the population is growing like wildfire around here. Nobody trapping + less hunters in the woods + smart creatures + mostly treed / mountainous landscape = recipe for disaster.Yeah 100 is too far... Just hate letting them go lol. Nice job on the toms. Have pictures?
those dang nuisance birds are vocal year round here. QUOTE
Had a gobbler gobble on Saturday on top of the mountain while deer hunting. It was about 25 degrees and windy. It was first thing in the morning and someone must have scattered them heading to their treestand. It was nice to hear!