A bit sour tasting and a touch chewy

[Oliverstacy]

Hope this is last tag I add this year!
 

Well I’ve tried adding sugar and it still a bit sour tasting…had my chances this spring on birds but couldn’t connect.

This is the closest I got:
 

I started this journey 3 years ago and I’m a lot better than I was but I’m still searching for the first.  

Looking forward to some 3-D shoots this year, hoping to make it to Compton, Elm Hall, GLLI and the R100 in the next 3 months with a bear trip in September being my next opportunity.  

We might get a chance in August for some crop damage whitetails with a friend…that would be a nice warm up for the bear hunt!

Still having a blast just a bit hungry.

Josh

[Jake Fr]

i know the feeling i had the same problem this year

[mcgroundstalker]

Tag Soup always tastes better with tomato and onions. Welcome to the club.  

... mike ...

[jimmerc]

Jack Daniels BBQ sause helps some, but you leave the table hungry still!!  Same here bud, I am in my second year hunting turkeys with trad gear,learned alot this year,as i spent one whole week in the beginning of the month,everyday, had turkeys on top of me every day but just couldn't draw cause of those #@$%#@ hens, my third attempt at a tom i was after and watched since mid april was strick out number 3 at him,and as this is my brothers land i hunt, i sent him in with his weapon to the spot and he gets him first time out,  22LB, 10 inch beard and this is my brothers first mature tom so he was gratefull to me!! maybe next year!!

[zipper bowss]

I prefer mine in sandwich form.Although a tag sandwich is still hard to swollow.You would think I would be use to it by now.
Bill

[celticknot]

I have turkey tags from last year and this year and i have deer tags from the past four years. Although i did fill a deer tag this year with my longbow so that helps the tags go down a little better. Just think of it as deer and really rubberie cabbage.

[Bonebuster]

Good luck come September.

Unfilled tags are lessons learned, and they add flavor to the tags that DO get filled.

Hungry hunters are the ones I like to hunt with best, they always put in more effort, and get more in return.

Here`s to being hungry, and I`ll say again...good luck come September  

[WESTBROOK]

Same here, always end the season a little smarter though.

The bad part is, it would be hard to imagine a better opportunity than I had this year, short of the bird charging me and impailing himself on my arrow!

Everything went perfect...except the shot...GRRRRR!

Eric

[longbowjim]

Josh-  I have filled a few tags, but still have you beat.  

2 Colorado elk tags-$500 each
1 Colorado mule deer Tag- $300
1 Minnesota bear tag- $200
1 Ohio deer tag- $125
Countless Michigan deer and turkey tags$$$$
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Doing it all the hard way- Pricele$$

Trust me bro...we all paid the price...no regrets.   JD

[Horner]

I like to cut mine up into little pieces, and use them as a salad topping.  MMMMMMMMM not bad if you run out of bacon bits.  
Horner

[Drew]

Josh if you weren't having fun you be back to wheels.

The time will come Bro..till then put them in a journal to remember the experiences or peel and stick to the target and pick your spot!

[Oliverstacy]

JD…that is one expense stew you’ve got going right there…I think last year’s deer tags were around $50 so I shouldn’t complain.  I think last year was the worst deer season I’ve ever had in 24 years of hunting.    

Drew…yes the day will come; the two misses this spring really hurt the pride a touch!  I still can’t believe I missed the jake at the distance it was but oh well.  Good shooting with ya at Elm Hall.

I just check every minute on stand off the list of time the powers at be have down before I get a chance at a monster of a lifetime.  Until that time it still better than being stuck in traffic on the way to work.

Josh

[2treks]

years ago I started saving my un-filled tags. Planned on making a shadow box or some sort of thing. got to depressed after just a few years and said to heck with it. After some good seasons and more bad seasons, I decided I still have way more fun than a fella should, for sure I have way more fun than the "other guys". they are hung up on the kill. I just like to be doing it. even if it is the hard way. like you said JD. priceless. would not change it if I could.(well maybe I would go for that BIG 12...)
  Sure is a blast eh?
Chuck

[longbowjim]

I would love to make something special out of my used tags, but I'm scared that my wife would see it (the price is written on each tag).  Pulling that tag out and looking at the price is good motivation to climb that last 2000ft up the mountain chasing a bugle.  

If you get the crop damage permits from your dad Josh,  you will have a deer hanging before the wheelie bow shooters even get their bows out of the cases for the year.  

JD

[acolobowhunter]

From the looks of the feather, you have a wounded bird.  Looks like a secondary wing feather.  Must have shot a little high.

[Oliverstacy]

Originally posted by acolobowhunter:
From the looks of the feather, you have a wounded bird.  Looks like a secondary wing feather.  Must have shot a little high.

He was slightly quartering away and the shot was indeed high…he was no worse for wear.  I watched him fly up to roost and then fly down the next morning…I hope he felt the added vibration of a missing feather.  With bino’s the next morning I watched gobble on the roost 15 or more times, he is a big bird with a broom for a beard…would have been a very nice bird to get.

Got the arrow the next morning and it didn’t have a drop on blood on it.  I have a post on the whole experience that I will post a link to below.  If you see the photo on the post on how the wings fold over their backs you’d see what I mean.  

I almost got a shot at him the next weekend but a hen busted me before that could happen.

Take a look at the stock photo I have of the turkey on the attached thread…that was about the angle.  I didn’t miss pay dirt by much.

  Turkey hunt thread  

Josh