Nice day huh?

[bassphish2005]

What a start to my season C. snow,rain,30 mph winds......I only saw one hen,and heard one gobble.....gosh I am hoping for a better day on Sunday.

Did anyone have any luck at all today?

[Scott Stein]

ya i got a jake this afternoon. this morning really sucked

[bassphish2005]

at least you got your bird

now they are talking 30% chance of rain and snow for tomorrow[area 227]and low of 30 degrees....and north winds!!!! AUGH@@@

[Scott Stein]

ya it was pretty miserable this morning i should of brought my buddy heater with, lol well good luck tomorrow let me know if ya get one

[erikh45]

I am not hunting MN this year, but it horrible weather. Kudos to those who got out. This weather seems like you should be hunting out of a Clam rather than a Double Bull. I am interested to hear how things start moving when the weather clears. In the Blcak Hills this year we had 6-10 inches of fresh snow for opener. Two days later it warmed up and the birds went absolutely nuts. Stay out there, and stay dry.

Erik

[doser]

It was a beautiful morning for turkey hunting!!! What are you talking about? Got up at 5:15am and looked outside and saw the semi-blizzard going on with 30 mph winds and crawled back in bed.

Decided to go out at 9:30. when the snow slowed a little. Got in the woods at 10 am. Was actually decent inside once I got into the river bottoms. Saw many fresh tracks. After walking and calling for about 10 minutes I heard a hen yelp. Looked and there she was so I quickly sat down and called again in case she had a tom with her. No luck ! Heard a few more hens help from a field not far away so I set up my decoys and thought with a day like this I'm just going to sit and wait it out for an hr. Never heard a single gobble at all......low and behold had a Tom sneak in silently with out a gobble and killed the 23lber with a ten inch beard and 1" 1/4" spurs at 33 steps after 45 min. in the woods! I had promised the wife I be home by noon.I kept my promise. She thought I was absolutely off my rocker going out in that weather. So yeah I could say it was a beautiful morning! Good luck out there to the rest of you.

[Borch]

Way to get it done Doser!

Congrats on a bruiser!

[birdswacker]

Bassfish is 227 Carlos Avery?

[harvey lee]

Congrats on what sounds like a very nice Tom, Chad.

[tunrevir]

FlSniper and I got out yesterday morning and had some success. Hit the woods before light hunkered into our brush blinds that we made the night before and waited. Didn't hear any gobbles but the birds responded to our calls putting all the way in. Had on hen come by at 15' putting the whole way on my offhand side. Ten minutes later I hear a shot and know FLSniper got one. I can hear all the putting and turn to my offhand side to see a few birds 40 yards to my right. Putt, putt, the birds start coming closer and I see a long beard on one. As they go behind a tree I shift to position for the shot. The smaller bnird sees the movement and takes off flying but the Tom just stands there and watches him go. I level the gun, check the background quickly to assure a safe shot, click the safety off, steady myself and squeeze of the shot. Turkey down. We ended up with 2 birds 5 minutes apart and packed up and out of the woods by 615! Pretty exciting, first birds for both of us. Bird goes on the smoker today after church.

Tunrevir~

[Tinkhamtown]

Congratulations!!

Sounds like a great hunt 2 for 2 and first birds truly a day to remember. WHAT A GREAT DAY.

[erikh45]

Sounds like the snow affected the hunters more than the birds. Congrats to those who got out and dumped a tom. I am just a sucker for a turkey hunting story. I have to wait 3 wks for my trip to the UP. You guys make it hard to wait.

Erik

[riverrat56]

I went out till about 10 yesterday morning in that blizzard. Saw 1 big tom, he was strutting on a big oak flat on a ridge off the property I was hunting. I also did manage to take a nap next to a tree, woke up to fresh turkey track with in a few few of me.

I was sitting at home and about 2 o'clock I noticed the snow was gone and the sun was shinning. After 3 days of rain and snow, I figured this would get the birds moving. The first place I set up was a narrow ridge bording an old corn feild, that went up to an open pasture that has large oaks that the birds roost in on the other side. I knew that birds moved through there in the morning because of all the fresh tracks.

I sat for about 2 hours, didn't hear a thing, decided to move to the other of the corn feild. I just sat down and heard a gobble of in the distance. After another hour and only 1 more gobble, I decided to head back to the first spot I had been sitting.

I sat back down, called 1 time, within 2 minutes a pair of jakes came over the ridge to my left, about 40 yds, by the time I was sure they had beards and got switched around, they were behind a thick screen of brush that lasted until the corn feild. Both of them got into the feild, saw my decoy and started working back towards me. When they were about 65 yds away I caught movement to my left again, 3 more jakes, about 5 yds closer than before.

Making a quick shift back to my left, the last bird was just clearing the top, and was clearly the largest of the bunch, I caught him with a load of #5's and sent him rolling back down the ridge, into the creek that held up the big gobbler in the morning.

4" beard, 18.5 lbs

This was my first bird in six seasons of hunting, the curse is finally broken.

[Borch]

Congrats Tunrevir and Riverrat!

It's true that the weather often impacts us more than the turkeys. They have to live in this stuff 24/7. So it's just another day for them.

[tunrevir]

I forgot the vitals on my bird, 22.5 lbs, 7/8th spurs and 9 5/8th's beard.

Tunrevir~

[riverrat56]

I'm sure it was just another day for all except the one thats in the fridge right now.....

After coming up empty so many times, my main plan was to spend as much time of the 5 days I had in the woods as possible, and it didn't take to long.

[8point]

Our group did super yesterday!! Got a really nice tom and a jake for 3 people.

[erikh45]

Where are the pics? I need pics. It's Monday , I am stuck at work thinking about turkey hunting, and really need pics. Please.

[bassphish2005]

Well gents,I am oh for three days of hunting.All three days with snow and or snow flurries [April or is it December?]

I had a strutting tom and hen in the field edge I was hunting this morning,but they moved far too my left.I packed up and moved into the woods and saw nothing for two hours.Long about 9:30 I heard gobbles from the same field edge I was in earlier,but never saw the bird after 1 1/2 hours of waiting and calling.

I have one more day off work tomorrow and will be back out bright and early,and the weather channel calls for partly cloudy and 18 degrees in the morning !!!

[Tipup101]

Buddy was out said it was cold and the birds where hot. He had a tom sprint to him along with seven jakes. He had only on day of the season to really hunt so the tom wouldn't clear the others and then one of the jakes caught him moving so one jake walked away from the pack so he took it. It was his first bird and he is hooked. It weighed 18lbs and he shot it at 11 paces, not much of a head left.

[Scott M]

No luck here. My "C" season is done. Have to cut it short to prepare to start a new job on Wednesday. If I didn't have those reasons and other pressing issues I'd still be preparing for another morning. It's the second year in a row that I've had something pressing to get back from the hunt early for but last year I scored on the first day. Honestly it's no way to hunt.

Brutal weather on Saturday and today. Saw and heard lots of birds and when the weather was nice on Sunday I blew a chance at two toms inside of 20 yards that hooked behind me in a hurry and passed on a jake later that morning. Strap of my sling rubbed up on the blind boards just as the toms were coming into the blind window. D'Oh! I agonized over it for a while but figured I'd get another chance. Then the weather completely changed. Oh well, great to get out, beautiful country, had my chance, and got an even better bead on the land. Lots of bird activity Sunday to make up for practically nothing on Saturday and today. Not much you can do about the weather except for put in your time. Seems like the deer and turkey season weather flip flopped for me. Too hot in November and too cold in late April. There will be more turkeys and more turkey hunts for me in the future.

Good luck to the rest of the "C" gang. Wednesday's weather looks phenomenal so don't give up if you don't have to!

[Wanderer]

South Dakota wasn't super sweet on the weather either.

Rain or snow every day of our trip. But we did run into birds!

Unfortunately after passing on the two gimmies in the road ditch as soon as we got there, we didn't connect on toms. We let the jakes walk this year.

Sorry the pic is too big, but the hosting site changed again and I'm having problems resizing.

[sticknstring]

That's a neat picture... doesn't look like much fun though! Head to an opening with a ground blind and a book!

[paceman]

That is a neat picture. I heard of a guy this past weekend that shot one during the storm while sitting in a heated deer stand.

[Wanderer]

Thanks! That snow started as we were leaving the truck about 5 mins before the pic. A half hour later, the sun was out and we had a solid inch of snow on the ground!

As soon as the snow broke, a tom gobbled to welcome the sun!