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Turkey Season Opens NOW!!!!!
El Destructo:
This Federal Land I Turkey Hunt...is Archery Only for Turkey....except for one small area that is Shotgun and Archery....but that is way too Crowded....since less than 2% of the Land in Texas is open to the Public....there are way too many Guns for my taste!!!
huntertrapper:
way to many guns is right. me nand my dad are gonna pack back in for the gobblers instead of bein 100 yards off the road. too many guns for me too.
Ranger B:
That's an awesome story. I went behind my house and had 6 Toms and 13 hens on me by 7:00. I was about to take a tom when I saw another come running in with a beard twice as big. He was a HOG so I got greed and waited for him but they began to move away. I waited too late and finally took a 25 yard shot but the arrow went right over his back. They left so I went to another farm.
When I drove up to this farm I could see 32 in the pasture so I used the terrain to get around behind them and set up a blind and 4 decoys. They didn't show up with an hour so I eased up to where they were about 200 yards away and across a pasture fence. I got behind a tree and hit the call. 7 Toms immediately answered me with gobbles in unison. I was fired up and hit it again. They immediately began my way and answered every time I hit the call. In about 25 min. they were to the fence but would not cross the fence. They ran up and down it gobbling and strutting but never crossed it to give me a shot.
No birds today but a lot of excitment!
Ranger B (Jimmy)
sailordad:
AWESOME!!!!
that is what happens in my dreams and only in my dreams for me.
contrats. a single double thats awesome,onlything that could have been cooler,would of had been to differant subspecies.but that is just unbelievable.
i just hope i get half that lucky this year.
they sound like they are probably two year old birds,from differant hatches of the same year,thats why the diff in spur and beard length.
mullet:
Yankee, what sailordad said and when you get the spurs to start curving like a hook it is an older bird. 3 or 4 year old they don't survive much more than that. You can also hold the beards up to the light and look for the amber color in the tips. The less amber the older the bird. A 3 or 4 year old will have very little to none. Jakes, 1year olds have very short to no beards and bumps for spurs, 1 year old or less. Osceola's don't gobble, and when they try it sounds like they are choking.
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