Author Topic: Turkey Season is Coming :) (Read 685 times)

GrimCO · « **on:** September 12, 2003, 09:43:34 AM »

Turkey season is a month away in Kentucky!

I bought a new 12 guage a few weeks ago. A Mossberg chambered for the new 3 1/2" magnum shells. My friend, who is an avid shooter declined to fire the weapon. I should have known right then that it packed quite a wallop

I figured maybe it would feel like firing a 3" magnum slug. It was indeed worse.

I was knocking down bowling pins with it at 100 yards using BBB shot. Couldn't believe my eyes. Hopefully I'll bag a couple of birds to put on the table at Thanksgiving with it.

Anyone else have one of these monsters and the bruises on their shoulder to prove it? LOL

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #1 on:** September 12, 2003, 09:48:22 AM »

Man come out here. We have frikkin herds of the little bastards. You could run up and grab one with each hand.

GrimCO · « **Reply #2 on:** September 12, 2003, 09:50:26 AM »

Funked, where you at? They're kind of thin this year in Kentucky due to a lot of rain. Plus, they're not mating in the Fall season so you can't call them in. You have to stalk them or just happen upon a herd of em.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #3 on:** September 12, 2003, 09:55:10 AM »

I'm about 50 miles ESE of San Francisco.

GrimCO · « **Reply #4 on:** September 12, 2003, 09:57:38 AM »

Never knew you guys had wild turkeys in California. You learn something new every day!

medicboy · « **Reply #5 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:02:18 AM »

Im in NE cali and the little pest are everywhere! WE can't get rid of them. NO one here hunts them and you could literly get one with a bb gun. WE do have a turkey season, but no one at my sportsmen club hunts them. I was making a stalk on a deer 2 years ago and got busted by a bunch of turkeys. Stupid, very very stupid birds.

Westy · « **Reply #6 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:02:30 AM »

Heh! What Medicboy said. Except I'm on the rightcoast

These dumb bastidges are the size of baby ostriches here.
We have this mile long winding roadway leading up to the comm site I work at and woe to the person who goes too fast and doesn't see these great feathered dinners gathering in the roadway.
Them and deer. I swear we need wolves brought back to Massachussets as nature's way out of wack here.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #7 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:02:40 AM »

We have deer too, and supposedly a few mountain lions.Need more mountain lions, because the deer are like rats. Crappy part is that we are surrounded by a park and hunting is illegal!

GrimCO · « **Reply #8 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:07:53 AM »

Having lived in Florida for 35 years (Just moved to Kentucky), the only thing really huntable there are wild Boar. I'm pretty excited about hunting some turkey. Don't know why more people don't do it. They're tasty little buggers

medicboy · « **Reply #9 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:07:53 AM »

Funked, come up to lassen county and get all the lions you want, while you are here you can have some coyotes and bobcats. There are tons of blacktails on the western slopes but here on the eastern slope the Mulies are pretty thin, lions and yotes got them all.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #10 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:10:47 AM »

We have coyotes too, apparently not enough though!

midnight Target · « **Reply #11 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:13:54 AM »

Strangely there are plenty of Mountain Lion down here as well (So. Calif.) The hills east of Orange county are lousey with em, and they are taking poodles out of the yards in Pasadena.

medicboy · « **Reply #12 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:14:31 AM »

Well come up and get a few lions, that will take care of that deer problem, and the domestic cat and dog problem, and the live stock problem, and ruin the 4h'ers project pigs as well. Those things are like rats up here.

rogwar · « **Reply #13 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:52:48 AM »

I really like Spring Turkey season

http://f1.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/imagineu812/vwp?.dir=/My+Photo+Album/Turkey&.dnm=BigBeard+12+April.jpg&.view=t

I bagged my limit of 4 Rio Grande birds this last year.

Here is a good web site with lots of information.

http://www.nwtf.org/

Florida has it's own subspecies, Osceola.

http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/wild_turkey_facts.html

If you get one of each it's called a grand slam. I have only hunted eastern and rio grande birds.

We have a 1,800 acre turkey lease about 80 miles northeast of Dallas/Fort Worth near Bowie, Texas. There is room for 5 people and we have one open slot right now so if anyone is interested let me know.

Spring Turkey is the only kind of hunting I do anymore.

Oh and...this is my shotgun:

http://www.ithacagun.com/products/catalog/turkeyslayers.shtml

Udie · « **Reply #14 on:** September 12, 2003, 10:56:39 AM »

how much is the slot?