Anyone going after spring Turkey

[mwc39]

#3904

Although it doesn’t seem like spring here in N. Texas Turkey season opens April 4th. I am more excited this year than normal. I have killed a few Turks with modern equipment in the past but I’m really looking forward to hitting it hard with my recucurve this year. I’ve finaly got my shoulder and elbows fixed and shooting alot. Just wondering if anyone else was as excited as am. I think season has already opened in a few states. Any Luck?

[MontanaFord]

#25895

I’m planning to try and secure permission on a couple pieces of property not far from where I live, here in NW Montana. One elderly couple I know allows hunters on their place, and a friend clued me into a fellow that allows 4 people per year on his property. I’m looking forward to trying to take a turkey with my recurve. We’ll see what I can get in the stew pot.

[kstout]

#25958

Got my permit but the my season wont open until May 1. Toms have been gobbling here for a couple of weeks, so I’m getting anxious to get after them!

[MontanaFord]

#25988

ours opens, i think on april 11, i don’t remember if it’s legal for hens and toms, or just toms…

[skinner]

#26072

We have a two Tom limit. The first one will probably die from lead posioning, but, the next one will be on a stick, I hope.

[LadyHawk]

#29199

We open the Monday after Easter and I can’t wait. I love turkey season!!!!!! Since I hunt archery only I get an entire month. My husband brought me home a new call this week. I can’t wait to get out there. Good luck everyone!

[MontanaFord]

#29296

whelp, went and got my turkey tag and all the other gee-gaws fish and game requires a person to have…we’re allowed any male turkey….i wonder, though, what fish and guts..i mean game…would say if i brought in a bearded lady like the story from timothy dwyer out of oklahoma…lol…

[Frenchy]

#29317

Turkey opener for us is all of May in Ontario, Canada and I’m looking forward to it, if I get time off work.

[Hendrix]

#30121

I have been real curious about this! How do the recurve guys plan on hunting turkey? From an extra tall blind, or what?

[Ralph]

#30282

What ya gotta have a blind for? Just shoot’em when they ain’t lookin’!:P Ha! Just kidding. Me and my longbow don’t get along in blinds for squat so it’s me doing without blinds and generally without turkeys too. Fun trying to head them off and get a shot but I think them rascals have a 7th or maybe even a 10th sense we don’t know about. Sneaky stinkers but I love chasin’ em. Good luck all.

[kstout]

#30473

I have a blind called the big house made by Ameristep that is 74″ tall. I shot a tom last year from it with my 66″ longbow and there were 2 of us sitting in the blind. I’ve also shot one from among some thick white spruce trees. I sat back in the spruce and called, then the tom came right down the edge. Shot was about 5 yards.

[MontanaFord]

#30556

I’ve never hunted out of a blind for anything, but I’ve watched videos where guys have hunted from blinds like the Double Bull Blind, and they seem to have plenty of clearance for their recurves. Dunno, never gave one a try, so I don’t really know. Probably never will, either. I don’t like sitting in one place the whole time I’m hunting. If I’m not moving around, it doesn’t feel like hunting to me.

MontanaFord

[crittergitter]

#30583

missourie southeast parts,right county,many friends.i am the only traditional archer and have slain all previous birds with lead but i will devote my robertson 60 lb,for sure the first week and a half then i dont know,i have the full season.ps no blind

[Ralph]

#31143

Forecast is 60mph possibly up to 70mph winds tomorrow for season opener here in the panhandle and extreme fire danger. A fire already burned 1000+ acres of my hunting area (part of my favorite mule deer terrain) so may have to pass on opening day. Don’t mind hunting tumble turkeys too much but sure worry about fire danger. Only one way in and out and fires would block that. Discretion is at times the better part of valor. So good luck to those that go. Being retired, I have all month so it’s just a matter of the opening “wannas” I have to contend with. 😛

[MontanaFord]

#31245

still snowin here. might be a white turkey opener.

MontanaFord

[Buckhorn73]

#31281

Our opener is April 27 for a month and I am hoping to enjoy the sight of the almighty gobbler and his harem at some point during that season. Thanks to a dedicated group of outdoor enthusiasts, a Provincial Fish & Game organization and a cooperative Ministry, the reintroduction of the Eastern Wild turkey was initiated in the mid 1980 era in our Province and I had the pleasure of hunting the first season in May of 1987.
Turkey hunters here know full well the assistance provided to us by our USA neighbours who supplied the first transfer of our Eastern brand of turkey. The reintroduction has been extremely successful, and I look forward to my perch within a blind this Spring with bow in hand.

[mwc39]

#33612

As R2 said its extremely windy here although its not as bad here as it is in Amarillo its blowing 40mph this weekend. Maybe it will be better later in the week.
I have taken 1 bird from the ground while sitting in some tall grass, Somewhat of a natural blind.Ive also had real good luck in the double bull type blinds. It helps to keep the turks from picking out bright fletching and crown dips etc.

[Ralph]

#33617

Yea buddy, we had 74mph gusts here yesterday. Dirt causing 0 visibility. Can’t even imagine what an arrow in flight would have looked like and we’re used to shooting in the wind. Actually, in that kind of wind I would not launch an arrow at any animal unless I was really, really close. Good huntin’!

[jimmy4805]

#34591

yes me and my son did and them birds was not having none lot of gobbles but no action not in love yet

[Ron Roettger]

#40241

I and a good friend were to head to the Black Hills next Tue. but his wife got real ill this last Wed morning. So now my thoughts are for her recorvery, things dont look good right now, but got to hope for the best.

[Jeremy Holden]

#40755

April 18th I should arrive in Nebraska and once again walk my grandmothers property. I love stretchin’ my legs out there. The pace of life out West is sooo much nicer than here in the Chicago area. Anyway, it’s opening day for shotgun on the 18th. I take a few friends from work and they all use guns. They laugh at me. But, I go my way and they go theirs. We always have a great time. Good luck to all and be safe.

Jeremy

[Todd Smith]

#40882

I hope to get out. I didn’t get drawn for the public ground I was eyeballing but there’s more around. I also have a friend with a small chunk of private ground I might get to hunt. It’s almost time!

I’d sure like to take on on the ground with no blind…
todd smith

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