Turkey Hunting Thread!

[Gregoire1960]

+1. The wife threw all the dark meat into a pot and simmered for several hours, then stripped the meat off the leg bones. Made homemade turkey and noodles and it was fantastic. Don't throw them away, as there is a lot of meat on the legs and back.

+2 We pluck and roast our birds and we mostly eat the white meat as a main meal. Afterwards we break up & throw the whole carcass into the pot with a gallon of water, bay leaf, onion & some poultry seasoning and let it simmer over night. Then we strain the broth and add all the meat (chopped) back in after picking out all the bones, skin & tough bits, etc....... The dark meat just falls off the bone and is quite tender. We add noodles and carrots, onions, celery & we're eating soup for the next few weeks.

 

[E_308]

Here is the one we made with the kids turkey legs.

http://honest-food.net/turkey-carnitas/

 

[Gravel Road]

Here is the one we made with the kids turkey legs.

http://honest-food.net/turkey-carnitas/

Man, you guys are making me want to get another bird.

 

[Mennoniteman]

First day spring gobbler in Pennsylvania. Called in a longbeard for my daughter, her first.

 

[Merle Hawggard]

First day spring gobbler in Pennsylvania. Called in a longbeard for my daughter, her first.View attachment 6981

Awesome job! Congrats to you both.

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[Satguy]

All this rain is certainly going to affect the turkey poult production this year.

 

[Brushpile]

Rain and flooding. I'm still after a gobbler but I can't get to them because of swollen streams and flooding.

 

[Satguy]

Got up at 3am for the 2 hour drive out to the farm and it was raining so hard i went back to bed. My wife and i get up at 6:30 and she looks at the radar and says hey lets head to the farm its going to quit raining. So we drive out and i get in my blind at 11am. Still raining but it stoped at 1130. I give a few hen calls and nothing. I use my shaker gobbler call and nothing. At 1230 just aftet a series of calls i look left and here comes 2 toms walking up the powerlines and when lead one gets 10 yards in front i squeezed the trigger and he did the death flop. 22# 11" beard and 1" spurs.

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[gut_pile]

WA was fun

 

[Tom Threetoes]

Opening day of the Indiana season my wife and I had a few conversations with a couple gobblers but had no luck getting anything to come in. Day two I went back alone but when I stepped out of my truck I was greeted with rain and wind and quickly decided no respectable turkey or hunter would venture out in that weather. I headed back home planning to call it quits but by the time I got there it had settled down a bit and the rain had stopped. Not wanting to waste the day I headed to another spot and built a small blind and settled back in my turkey lounger. I hoped the wet woods would put the birds out in the fields. It took about 2 hours of sporadic calling to finally raise what I thought was a distant gobble. My hearing suffers from 40 years of dozer work so I wasn't sure. The second series of yelps and a couple of cutts got the response I hoped for and from then on he was committed. In a minute or two he slipped around the corner of the woods and headed my way. He eyeballed my makeshift blind and for a bit I thought he got a little nervous, I know I did. About that time he saw my decoys and settled down, and headed for them strutting and gobbling. He put on a quite a little show before the shot. A fine performance and end to my season. 20 1/2 lbs. - 10 1/2" beard - 3/4" spurs

 

[dogdoc]

Enjoying all the turkey pics. Blondie skipped school today to spend some time hunting with dad. She is an excellent student so don't mind a little hookie for a day hunting. Season closes Saturday so we are in desperate mode.

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[ng270]

It was a good solo trip to my place in Ky.

Saturday morning - This guy's been a regular. Has virtually no beard, but spurs over an inch that showed up in trail camera pics. He was in a field with two hens, and I worked him an hour and a quarter. No decoy, and he was determined to gobble and strut until "she" came to him, but he broke down eventually and died at 9:30.



I heard at least 8 gobbling Sunday morning, and boogered three longbeards that came in quietly behind me shortly after flydown, so decided to try to fill my second tag. This guy gobbled on his own at 5:40 pm, came into my little plot about 6:10, then proceeded to strut at 55 yards for over 3/4 hour. He finally got to 40 yards (and cleared the last of my young pears) at 7:00 pm.


And yes, I'm quite good at growing weeds in my plots.

 

[OKbio]

Took a buddy out once last year and once earlier this year. Neither time did birds want to cooperate. Got him out again last Friday (before a major storm system was "supposed" to hit) and it was one of those hunts that just seems too easy.

 

[Mennoniteman]

Called in a gobbler Monday, the second day of the season. I worked this bird for two hours, gave up and went to work. Came back at ten and heard him as soon as I got out of the truck. It took me another hour and a half to call him in. I set up in five different spots altogether till I got him. My toughest bird ever, and one of the most exciting turkey hunts I ever had, at one time a hen circled me twice at ten yards. Eleven inch beard.

 

[OkieKubota]

Got home about 5:00 on May 1st and could hear turkeys gobbling across the road so I quickly grabbed my gear and headed out. I got set up back in the timber in the edge of a hinge cut and waited a bit and then hit my box call...turkeys to my front left through the woods responded immediately...stayed quiet a few minutes and hit it again and got responses much closer...great...be quiet, safety off, behind camo tree umbrella set up on ground,back against big white oak. 2 toms approach but I can barely make them out through the brush. 1 is strutting, 2nd is on high alert. Second turkey head upright visible above brush at 30 so I take the shot...strutting turkey flys to our new 10 acres and the other runs back the way they came in but it looked like he was running into brush more than he should. I could hear more turkeys gobbling the way he went which was toward our south plot. I just went the way he ran and saw him laying down. I got near and he got up and ran but kept running into brush so I took another shot. Down...first shot just got a pellet in his head and disoriented him...second shot was perfect...

 

[farmer]

They are still dying in va! Yesterday bird

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This was an army vet I had the honor of guiding Saturday to his first turkey.

On Sunday, had the honor of guiding this retired navy vet to his first turkey. I normally give jakes a pass, but this one came in, he said he had been trying to kill a turkey for 30 years so I told him to drop the hammer!


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Yesterday's bird.
My body really wants this season to be over so I can get a good nights sleep and finish plantin corn. I just feel guilty if I skip a morning hunt!

 

[Tom Threetoes]

Mama Threetoes ended her Indiana season last Sunday morning with a big jake. He came in after a couple hours of blind calling. She said she heard a hen calling. I told her it was a jake yelping "I don't want to shoot a jake I want a gobbler." she said. In just a few seconds he came around the corner of the logging deck we were hiding in, his neck stretched to the limit trying to make himself look bigger. The bird made a bee line to the decoys and at 18 steps she had a change of heart. As tough as this season has been I glad she did and she is too.

 

[THE LLC]

Traveled out to my deer hunting ground in northwest Nebraska two weeks ago to do a little turkey hunting. Got this one on Saturday, April 29. Wish I could have just stayed out there!!

 

[Robert Busch]

I wanted to get out this morning to listen for gobbles but we are getting something extremely rare here...I think they call it rain?

Turkeys cannot hear very well during a rain storm so they will move out in the open where they can depend on their eyesight more for protection

 

[E_308]

The kids bird got its place on the wall. He did all of the sanding and staining on the wood.

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