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After chasing old thunder chickens with the bow. I'm ready to get even with them next Wednesday with the old pipe bomb. I will not be able to hunt till after work next week until the weekend. Cameras are out and going back up Saturday to hang a couple more on another chunk of land. I will be there before sunrise hoping to know as much as  I can about what the birds are doing by Saturday.

 

Tonight getting the shotgun shells out for the 20guage and re-packing some clothes after doing laundry this week. Can't wait for Wednesday it will not be here soon enough. Have a few phone calls in to the land owners checking to see what they are seeing birds doing. Trying to get the MRI I can.

 

Decoys will be in the truck but not sure I will use them. From talking some friends hunting the same area birds seem to be really aggressive right now so could be a good choice to use.

 

Anyone else getting out and scouting?

 

Good luck , Week from today for those hunting Season A.

 

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I haven't dome much scouting yet, still waiting for the snow to melt in the woods and the spring bird breakups. Will be interesting to see how much snow we get yet this week. The forecast up here is 12-18". Yuk. At least it should melt pretty fast. With that being said I will be out with the Bow Thursday/Friday mornings if the weather cooperates. It is a long season and I will be patient. Up around here I have found early may to be the best for pulling in fired up Toms.

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Well did my home work again this spring, had 7 Tom's within 20 yrds. The one I took was 8 yrds from me, oh did I forget to mention I had over 100 birds on this 80 acre piece. The woods come alive around 610 am. Now to get ready for a walleye tourney the 26 and 27. Good luck to all my hunting buds.

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Man what a frustrating day. Had a pair of jakes that decided to spend their day in our vicinity and they ran off a pair of toms that were cutting across the plowing headed for us this morning, then this evening we were pretty confident the nicest tom we saw today would be headed past us to get back to the roost and sure enough... he followed the script. As I was readying the gun on him those 2 jakes decide to come out of the woods, he sees them, and dumps into the ravine with them chasing behind. 

 

EDIT: Now 3 times they have run one off. That tom just made another attempt to sneak his way in and they ran him off again. Never wanted to shoot a jake as bad as I want these two gone.

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Pfunk

One of those Jakes needs a dirt nap. I've had that happen many times with Jakes ruling the area. I do not let them get away with it though. If a Jake is in range he will taste good. Our saying in camp is "Never good luck to pass up a Jake"

 

Good luck to all hunting season B or Archery. 3 birds taken in our group yesterday, my dad got  nice Jake (WI) with the new 20 gauge and a friend shot a nice double beard tom with the bow(MN). Another Tom shot by a friend in WI that was on the lighter side only 16 lbs.

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Interesting. I never thought that Jakes would chase a Tom away. This morning I had 2 jakes come out and pound my decoys. I chased them away, put the dekes back out and they came back again 20 minutes later.. I let them live. I am archery hunting so have the whole season. No Tom's seen. I have seen these jakes a couple times now and a couple hens.

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Several years ago I had a Tom come out with a Jake behind.

They circled my decoy- Tom in full strut, Jake hanging back.

Shot the Tom.

Jake immediately sensed an opportunity and ran in and pounced on the dead Tom.

Beat him up pretty good.

I had to shoo him away.

He got tough in a hurry when Tom went down.

Even the gunshot did nothing to scare him off.

Turkey's can sure be unpredictable but fun.

 

 

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Well that pair of Jakes didn’t ruin the fun today. Had an awesome day. Had a Tom very interested for going on 2 hours starting around 9:30, but he was on the other side of a ravine he refused to cross. He kept leaving but couldnt help himself but to come back and strut around gobbling and gobbling. Eventually a second tom came his way and we got to watch them throw down. A hen with them started calling like crazy and we were going back and forth for a long time. All the commotion really got things stirred up and pretty soon there were more toms closing in from three directions. This one made the fatal mistake and came out in the open at about 8 yards and that was all she wrote for my season. 

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6 hours ago, hugonian1 said:

Several years ago I had a Tom come out with a Jake behind.

They circled my decoy- Tom in full strut, Jake hanging back.

Shot the Tom.

Jake immediately sensed an opportunity and ran in and pounced on the dead Tom.

Beat him up pretty good.

I had to shoo him away.

He got tough in a hurry when Tom went down.

Even the gunshot did nothing to scare him off.

Turkey's can sure be unpredictable but fun.

 

 

This year my friend shot his tom off the back of the one I killed about 10 seconds before.  Two more toms came running in after that, checked out the dead birds, then got super spunky and put on quite a show fighting each other.  That went on for a solid half hour and while the toms were chasing each other around and kicking each other in the cow pasture, the hens got escorted off into the woods by a couple jakes the adult gobblers chased off earlier.   

 

I'm convinced that turkey's are either so stupid that they're easy to hunt or so stupid that they are almost impossible to hunt.  Depends on the day.

 

We could have stacked 5 gobblers up on Monday morning.  Thursday through Sunday couldn't get anything closer than 150 yards.

 

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2 hours ago, bobbymalone said:

This year my friend shot his tom off the back of the one I killed about 10 seconds before.  Two more toms came running in after that, checked out the dead birds, then got super spunky and put on quite a show fighting each other.  That went on for a solid half hour and while the toms were chasing each other around and kicking each other in the cow pasture, the hens got escorted off into the woods by a couple jakes the adult gobblers chased off earlier.   

 

I'm convinced that turkey's are either so stupid that they're easy to hunt or so stupid that they are almost impossible to hunt.  Depends on the day.

 

We could have stacked 5 gobblers up on Monday morning.  Thursday through Sunday couldn't get anything closer than 150 yards.

 

 

Where those pictures Bob? ?

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11 inch beard, 1 3/8 Spurs, 26 lbs.  

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Nice Bird!  ?

Do you only have one eye in your forehead?  Can't ever seem to get your smiling face in any pic's? ?

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Nice Bird!  ?

Do you only have one eye in your forehead?  Can't ever seem to get your smiling face in any pic's? ?

 

I'm kind of embarrassed by my small tatties.

 

That's a Missouri Ozarks bird by the way.

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53 minutes ago, bobbymalone said:

 

I'm kind of embarrassed by my small tatties.

 

That's a Missouri Ozarks bird by the way.

 

Yeah, you can never be to cautious posting your picture on the Internet, with all the small tittie kidnappers and all! ?

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