Turkey pic of the day for Saturday May 12

[the Ferret]

I'll be in the woods at daybreak tomorrow so here's your Saturday pic a couple hours early


 

Hope to be posting a pic of another kind later      

Good luck to all in the A.M.

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Good luck tomorrow!

[whitebuffalo]

good luck Ferret.

[Stone Knife]

Nice pic! You sure get up early, good luck I'm heading out soon.

[K.S.TRAPPER]

Go get em Mickey,Good luck to you and shoot strait    

Tracy

[Huntrdfk]

Thanks for the pics Mickey, I hope to see you with a pic of another kind later!  Good luck this morning.....

David

[sticshooter]

Looks great Mick. Texas heart shot pose! LOL<><

[Whip]

I hope that tomorrows pic of the day is of a dead turkey!  Bring one of those big boys home for dinner!

[the Ferret]

Well I'm in for breakfast. Was in the woods too early LOL. Had a gobbler working at first light. He was on the neighbors property and I was on mine. We were probably 75 yards apart. 10 minutes or so after daybreak ....BOOOOOM. No more gobbler.
It's hard to describe the feeling of hopelessness of losing a bird to someone who you know isn't even supposed to be there. I know he's a trespasser because my neighbor is an ARA who would NEVER allow hunting.Oh well, it's over and done with now.   :(  

Heading out in a few minutes for round 2.

[Littlefeather]

Watch the mail Micky. I'll be sending some blunts to help with your problem. I don't know how you guys tolerate poaching. Where I live there are very few poachers. Most are never found and when they are they are found floating face down by some rancher checking his farm ponds. Seems to kind of take care of itself. Sorry to hear about the gobbler loss. CK

[the Ferret]

LOL dang CK..blunts against someone with a shotgun? You Texicans is BRAVE!

Trespassing is a huge problem here. Large tracts of woods, no fences. Signs are ignored. Little chance of getting caught when there is only one Game Protecter per county, and the penalty for tresspass is weak. Most people where I live never get down into their woods anyway. If a trespasser does get caught they say they have permission (your supposed to have written permission but farmers are leary of giving that on account of liability issues) or they say they are lost and ask directions to the property line and leave.

it's certainly NOT like Texas.

[Forester]

Hang in there Mickey.  I'm with you on the feelings of losing out to a trespasser.  I've had three turkeys boomed out from under me while I was calling and they were comin' Even when the other guy couldn't get an answer to his calls and he had to move to get between us.  It sucks when you run into someone in the woods and know you're about to get lied to - I have even been told that I was trespassing and they were the only one with permission LOL.

As long as you go back for another round you are the one winning.  Good luck!!  Thanks for the picture, looks like he is teasing you with his primaries in that one....

[the Ferret]

What a great day. I love turkey hunting, they are so hard to hunt. By 9:00 I was back sitting up against a big ol osage that is wide enough to cover my body x 3. I yelped plaintively about 9:15 on my quaker boy box call. Nothing. I called again at 9:30. When I call again at 9:45 I hear a gobble pretty far off. A 10:00 I cackled on my diaphragm call and got another response this time much closer. I thought "here he comes". A couple minutes later a longbeard steps out about 60 yards away. Right behind him is another longbeard. Behind him 4 jakes. Man that's a lot of eyes. Anyhow rather than come my direction they head down over the hill. I call softly on the diaphragm but they pay no attention. Walking single file they walk out of my sight. I figure they are going to cross the hill below me and go south down the valley, so I jump up, run a hundred yards or so across the top of the hill and then down to where I think they might be going. I stood behind a beech for maybe 15 or 20 mins but they never show. I call again and get an answer, a single gobble. They had gone straight down the hill, crossed the creek at the bottom and were headed west up the next hillside.Off my property and out of my life...for now.

Got tomorrow and then 1 more weekend.

At different times I had a flock of chickadees totally surround me, had a young coon amble past at about 6 or 7 yards, had multiple squirrels within spitting distance, saw crows, heard geese and ducks fly over, heard and saw the low rumbling buzz of several bumble bees...just a great outdoor experience.

Man you have to love turkey hunting.

[4runr]

Sounds like a great morning Mickey!!

We had baseball games    Whoever plans this stuff is obveously not a hunter!!

[Stone Knife]

Glad to hear that your luck changed for the good after this mornings hunt. My daughter and i went out today, when we pulled up to were we wanted to go there was already a truck there. Not wanting to goof up anyone we left and went to a spot i hadn't hunted in years. We heard one gobble when we were walking up the field edge, we walked in the woods and set up. Turns out there was 3 gobblers and some hens, no shots but we had a good time. Kind of dumb luck how we stumbled on to them.

[the Ferret]

LOL Stone Knife sometimes dumb luck is the best luck. It's neat that your daughter gets up and goes out with you.

Kenny I'm glad my kids are grown. Friends we have with young kids that are into sports never have any free time for themselves... runining kids here and there, 2 kids may have 5 different games on weekends, practice every night during the week. It's nuts!