213 B , Got one in the fall, let’s see if I can go back-2-back

you can use shotguns 20 ga or larger or muzzle-loading shotguns 12 ga or larger, #4 or smaller diameter fine shot. For more info go to http://www.dnr.state.mn.us/hunting/turkey/index.html
good luck!!

Got alot of great advise on this web sight! Thanks to all of you

Congrats, you should make something out of thoes spurs

Gets the blood pumping!
Are you hutning bow or gun season or both?

Thanks for ALL you do and welcome!

Nope found it on deertrackervideo.com

smart bee’s!

I wish! Found it online but I can’t remember where.

The difference between deer nuts and beer nuts? Beer nuts are $1.50 and deer nuts are under a buck.

Joel, I hunt on private land, approx. 200 acres 1/2 hard woods 1/2 agricultural with no other hunting pressure. I have seen them this summer but did not see them this spring when I hunted. Same thing last year, I see them in the summer to fall months but not in the spring. Largest count was about 25 birds. I will be hunting season B with my 15 year old boy with shotguns.
Thanks for your help.

That must be that new 9 iron load!!

Nice Job!! Great bird

Thanks for the post!! My 15 year old son was drawn for 213B It’s his second attempt at it so I hope he can bag one this year.

I got mine on the 12-16 for the boys and I – no problem.

Congrats!! And yes it IS addicting!

I also practice in the truck for about a month or two before the season but I always get new mouth calls before I get out in the woods. All that use can damage the true tone of the call. When my season is over I toss the old ones and practice with the new ones. Good luck!!

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Congratulations!! Nothing is like harvesting that first bird.

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Firegetter911…this is her second turkey, but her first tom. About 2 years ago in the fall she filled her fall tag with a hen….with her bow! She is quite the outdoorswoman!!

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I would say so!! congrats again!!

Chew on this PETA

PETA’s Dirty Secret

Hypocrisy is the mother of all credibility problems, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has it in spades. While loudly complaining about the “unethical” treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, the group has its own dirty little secret.

PETA kills animals. By the thousands.

From July 1998 through December 2006, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) killed over 17,400 dogs, cats, and other “companion animals.” That’s more than five defenseless creatures every day. PETA has a walk-in freezer to store the dead bodies, and contracts with a Virginia Beach company to cremate them.

Not counting the pets PETA spayed and neutered, the group put to death over 97 percent of the animals it took in during 2006. And its angel-of-death pattern shows no sign of changing.

On its 2002 federal income-tax return, PETA claimed a $9,370 write-off for a giant walk-in freezer, the kind most people use as a meat locker or for ice-cream storage. But animal-rights activists don’t eat meat or dairy foods. And during a 2007 criminal trial, a PETA manager (testifying under oath) confirmed the obvious — that the group uses the appliance to store the bodies of its victims.

In 2000, when the Associated Press first noted PETA’s Kervorkian-esque tendencies, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk complained that actually taking care of animals costs more than killing them. “We could become a no-kill shelter immediately,” she admitted.

PETA kills animals. Because it has other financial priorities.

PETA rakes in nearly $30 million each year in income, much of it raised from pet owners who think their donations actually help animals. Instead, the group spends huge sums on programs equating people who eat chicken with Nazis, scaring young children away from drinking milk, recruiting children into the radical animal-rights lifestyle, and intimidating businessmen and their families in their own neighborhoods. PETA has also spent tens of thousands of dollars defending arsonists and other violent extremists.

PETA claims it engages in outrageous media-seeking stunts “for the animals.” But which animals? Carping about the value of future two-piece dinners while administering lethal injections to puppies and kittens isn’t ethical. It’s hypocritical — with a death toll that PETA would protest if it weren’t their own doing.

PETA kills animals. And its leaders dare lecture the rest of us?

Congratulations!! Nothing is like harvesting that first bird.

What time is breakfast??

Congratulations Dylan! Welcome to the world of turkey hunting. Hope you have many great stories to tell. I am taking my 12 year old son out this year for his first time and I hope he will have a story to tell as great as yours!!

I like to place the hen in front with the jake looking at her back side. I place the decoys about 15-20 yards out, but there are ALOT of factors. Open terrain with almost no ground cover is probably the best for decoys so the tom has something visual to see, but not all toms are looking for a fight all the time. There is a time and place for decoys and if you can figure it out let us all know!! Good luck to you, glad your back!! See you in the turkey woods!!

Perhaps Rocky the flying squirrel has something to do with it!!

Congrats Did you harvest it late or early in the season?

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lil bro called this morn and his wife is already getting tired of hearing about turkeys.come on spring

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My wife was tired about turkeys in November. I have 2 boys who love to practice calling. Female ears must be tunned different cuz I don’t seem to mind!!

That’ll learn ya!! To bad that would have been a great pic like ya said. You should put up a trail cam to see if you could get a pic that way. Oh well, perhaps you will see him again this fall.

There is not a min age to draw a tag but if they are 12 or over they need a gun safety cert.

My son is signed up for the firearm safety class however he will not be done in time to go turkey hunting. He will be 12 in the middle of March so I had to go with the hunter apprentice program. FYI if anyone else is in the same boat. If you need more info just let me know!!

I thought the same thing. My first turkey hunt I was done in 2 hours and I thought “that was easy, what’s the big deal? They have a brain the size of a walnut, what could be so hard?” Next year, NOTHING. It could be that the turkeys in your area have had little hunting pressure and they are not skittish…. YET! I have heard expert turkey hunters say that if a turkey could smell you would never kill one. They are prayed upon at birth so they have to be weary right out of the shell. Good luck to you but don’t underestimate the ability of the turkey to survive, I think they will surprise you. I have to add that once you go, your hooked. “See you in the turkey woods!!”