Spring Turkey Hunters??

  • clicker
    Posts: 130
    February 21, 2012 at 3:33 pm #1275907

    Anyone get drawn for the spring turkey hunt? I was on a year dry spell but got selected this year! Lots of rumors the turkey numbers are down. I took a trip the other evening down to my turkey spot and wow! Most turkeys I have ever seen at my spot since I have been hunting it!

    I estimated around 60-70 turkeys. Couldn’t fit them all in the picture. All small, but I know the big toms are out there hiding!

    I hunt the first season (A), how about you?

    Never hunted the first season, anyone got some tips for early season toms?

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13394
    February 21, 2012 at 3:38 pm #1041344

    We do the best in the early season by calling in the hens. If you can call in a hot hen, Toms will follow!

    My daughter is bowhunting the second season & I’m almost booked for guiding the entire spring. I think its C or D that I have left open

    clicker
    Posts: 130
    February 21, 2012 at 3:41 pm #1041347

    I am excited to do first season. I am hoping the weather might hinder some people. I remember going two years ago during C season and it was wet and cold. Didn’t see many people out.

    hopefully season A will be misquito free, and cold and wet to keep those yuppies at home

    Two years ago I called in two little rug rats. They almost took a blast at my decoy when I finally said HEY. Boy did they go a running off the field! Wish I would have caught the two little kids that were tresspassing!

    timschmitz
    Waconia MN
    Posts: 1652
    February 21, 2012 at 4:59 pm #1041363

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    hopefully season A will be misquito free, and cold and wet to keep those yuppies at home

    Didn’t I see that you were from EP? Kind of the pot calling the kettle black don’t ya think?

    SLACK
    HASTINGS, MN
    Posts: 711
    February 21, 2012 at 7:23 pm #1041421

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    I am excited to do first season. I am hoping the weather might hinder some people. I remember going two years ago during C season and it was wet and cold. Didn’t see many people out.

    hopefully season A will be misquito free, and cold and wet to keep those yuppies at home

    best watch what you wish for

    Willy D
    Nipawin, SK
    Posts: 209
    February 22, 2012 at 3:14 am #1041599

    My 10 year old son and I put in for tags in WI.I put myself in for 1st week only and my son Hunter in for 7 diffferent seasons.Being that we are from Saskatchewan we do not have wild turkeys in the province and you have to be 12 years old before you can buy a hunting license for anything. I am really excited that my son drew a 3rd season tag,we intend to hunt the 2 days of the youth weekend at Easter because of the school break up here in Saskatchewan.We are going to be hunting in Zone 3 around the Wautoma area.Also looking forward to some fishing when there because our lakes will still be frozen.
    Good Luck with your first season tag.

    clicker
    Posts: 130
    February 22, 2012 at 1:29 pm #1041654

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    hopefully season A will be misquito free, and cold and wet to keep those yuppies at home

    Haha! Nope not from EP.

    Im quiet a ways south of EP! I see crop fields and silos, not cougars and beamers

    Didn’t I see that you were from EP? Kind of the pot calling the kettle black don’t ya think?

    kooty
    Keymaster
    1 hour 15 mins to the Pond
    Posts: 18101
    February 22, 2012 at 1:42 pm #1041658

    You guys should come join us over on the hunting side. We don’t allow yuppies, but cougars are often discussed.

    IDO Hunting Turkey Forum

    glenn57
    cold spring mn
    Posts: 11633
    February 22, 2012 at 1:55 pm #1041664

    i didnt get mine

    glenn57
    cold spring mn
    Posts: 11633
    February 22, 2012 at 1:57 pm #1041665

    Quote:

    You guys should come join us over on the hunting side. We don’t allow yuppies, but cougars are often discussed.

    IDO Hunting Turkey Forum

    and i got banned from another site for discussing cougars!!!

    chippee
    sw wi
    Posts: 488
    February 22, 2012 at 8:27 pm #1041837

    Willy D, a tip for your youth hunter, when the extra tags go up for sale buy your son a late season tag ($10) and if you are successful on the youth hunt use this tag, otherwise you will have to use his 3rd season tag and he will be done, just something I learned thru my youth hunters. good luck

    starvin pilgrim
    Posts: 335
    February 22, 2012 at 9:12 pm #1041852

    I hunted turkey many years down south were they’ve been hunted for hundreds of years and I can tell first hand Minnesota turkeys are the dumbest bird on earth. You’ld never see a gang with than 15-20. I never in all my time saw a road killed turkey, now I see 20-30 a year up here. A year ago I saw a couple of toms struttin for some hen in a wide open field 50 yards of the road and people were stopping and taking pictures, Thats not normal.Say what you want, But what you’ve got is a 20lb dumb a– chicken. With your 3 1/2″ loads,blinds,decoys and a target that isn’t very smart, If you can’t get one, Well, Whats that say? Now the reason I post a message like this is I get tired of listening to the great white hunters bragging about bagging this wary creature of the woods. I have my memories of real turkey hunting. But thats another story.

    Randy Wieland
    Lebanon. WI
    Posts: 13394
    February 22, 2012 at 10:02 pm #1041857

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    real turkey hunting.



    Everyone takes a different opinion or experience from their hunt. I’ve hunted birds that never were pressured, and yes they tend to be more curious. Hunt a ridge that has a dozen hunters on it the same week as you, and half of them spook birds year after year…then see how easy they are to call in. When I did a Florida hunt, I was blown away how curious they were to watch us walk across a field, then followed us…. To each their own I guess

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