Turkey Pics

GOBLER TIME IS COMING igot my slate ready if i can just find some room inbetween the all the buttheads down here yall think it gets crowded fishing trie being in the woods daylite opening day spring gobler

The last couple of days here have been great, really starting to get that spring bug. I am glad we really don't have problems with crouds here, even on the public areas

Man those are some awesome turkey pics...still lookin' for my first gobbler. The only problem is turkey season gets in the way of fishing

Bauer

I am still waiting for my first bird also had a few close calls but no bird on the ground yet

All the years I lived in FLA I never tried Turkey Hunting ,like I have up North; hunted almost every season since ,85, even driving up from Florida to stay at my Mom's & go out turkey hunting usually get the 2 you're allowed here ,
I did see an OSCEOLA HEN run right across the road one day in FORT MYERS!!! Couldn't believe it.
When I get back for good I'm going to get after them, it'll be interesting to see how the two types compare, OSCEOLA / EASTERN , up north anymore you have to be very sparing with the calls, between the damn coyotes trying to kill everyone they "hear" [even running in to my calls] , & the knuckleheads that start a month before the season opens riding all the back roads calling non stop 24/7 , so the Birds get call shy , it's not like it was when I started Turkey Hunting,
I used to love to get them all fired up , using the Box call ,then cackling to them with the diaphragm mouth calls , so they'd gobble repeatedly ,

I'd get them all wound up ...cutting, cackling, purring , I'd call them right up to us ,
I shot this one big Tom back in 95 he had an old hen & some young ones & that old hen did everything she could to keep him from leaving her , I copied every call she made, but a little louder ,& a little longer ,
She was the biggest hen I ever saw ,& he had a 10"Beard & weighed 21lbs,
since then ,like 98/99 -00 &later calls are just some clucks, purring , one I got like that started gobbling in the pitch dark when I clucked once ,he heard it from a couple hundred yards away, & WAY down in this series of ledges ,in the pouring rain ,
I went down, got situated , let some purrs,clucks out on a "slate" [aluminum] with a purpleheart wood peg, he obbled on the roost many times, then flew down & came walking slow to me ,but once he hit the ground he shut up,

they do that now because of the coyotes hunting them,I was so far back in nobody messed with thisone pre-season.

Aim just breaking into diaphragm calling, I couldn't do it sooner because I had a perminat retainer

I have always like using just my mouth and hands (never brought one all the way in though).
I also have used box calls a lot. We have gotten our bird every season.

And then in the offseason I catch them with my bare hands. It is easy, just chase them into the corner of a fence.