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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: GrimCO on September 12, 2003, 09:43:34 AM
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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
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Man come out here. We have frikkin herds of the little bastards. You could run up and grab one with each hand.
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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.
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I'm about 50 miles ESE of San Francisco.
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Never knew you guys had wild turkeys in California. You learn something new every day!
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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 :)
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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.
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We have coyotes too, apparently not enough though!
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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.
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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.
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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
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how much is the slot?
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Originally posted by Udie
how much is the slot?
It's $500 but managed land.
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Gosh, you guys are sure mean killing poor defenseless little birds.
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milo,
I'll have you know that when that seagull picked up my croaker last saturday I went out of my way to jerk it out of it's mouth as to NOT set the hook. :D
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I like turkey hunting with a sling blade, some call it a kaiser blade, Mmm-hmm...
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Originally posted by Udie
milo,
I'll have you know that when that seagull picked up my croaker last saturday I went out of my way to jerk it out of it's mouth as to NOT set the hook. :D
Someone had to try :D
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West Texas turkeys must be different than those Cali ones, because you can spend an awful lot of time hunting them with nothing to show. And they are there, and plentiful. Here in Austin, I run up on a group sometimes, but you don't get but a glimpse.
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Stayed in a Hotel in Carmel once that was back against the hills. That morning I was awakened by a freaking loud turkey. He was perched in a tree at eye level to the balcony (about 15' high). when I went out on the balcony he just stared me down.... I could have caught him with a net.
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As ya know grim there's a standing invitation to come hunt Deer, Turkey, Grouse (toughest little sons of beeches to hit), and do some trout fishing during spring turkey season (you can hunt till noon, then its time to fish)
And on that 3-1/2" mossberg...
My father has one, he shot it, he hurt for 3 days. I told him "you're going to break your hip old man", well nearly his shoulder. I havent fired it, and will not fire it. Remington 11-87 with custom stock work for me. Freehand at 50 yards I put all rounds into a 1-1/2 inch bullseye with a slug barrel, and use the same gun with a XX-Full turkey choke to shoot Annie Oakleys(27yrd trap "game").
Lets see...Dove, Pheasant, Grouse, Duck, Geese, Deer, Coyote, Squirrel, Rabbit, Turkey. All within an hour or less drive, and in some cases on the back of property. Yep...life is good when you've got a skeet range in your back yard.
The only rounds for shotguns i've been impressed with were the Copper solids they make now. Dropped an 8 point at 120 yards on the run with my 11-87 (Iron Sights, no Sissy-Scopes) on the spot. I knew something was great when i was bench shooting at 100 yards and making a 6" pattern.
Good luck with your Turkeys...I've got 2 and they're the hardest bird to hunt, while grouse is the hardest to hit.
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Ive never hunted them, but I've see lots of turkey when I'm out 4 wheeling in ocala.
Do they really taste better than storebought turkey? Cause I've got some shotguns and I'm itchin to shoot something besides clays.
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wildturkey tastes alot better than than tame. much smaller breast though. best way to cook them is a turkey fryer, dont use INDOORS. if you dont have one of those spice to tast then smear mayo all over it and bake. in montana you can get two turkeys a year. one in spring, with shotgun or bow only. one in fall which you can shoot with a rifle. most folks get the tag ($12 for resident) in case they see one deer or elk hunting in fall. the last one i shot with a rifle i only wounded, i shot it in the low back and when i ran up to it still had fight left in it. so my choice was shoot it again with a .300 WIN mag, jump it and get clawed. so i threw rocks at its head till its time was up. now i have this small teloscoping baton for dispatching so i dont have to ruin any delishious meat
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Is it legal to hunt with fully automatic MP5's (if i get it back) ?
Course i could just use my glock
Problem will be to get them into the US tho.. :D
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Originally posted by TPIguy
Ive never hunted them, but I've see lots of turkey when I'm out 4 wheeling in ocala.
Do they really taste better than storebought turkey? Cause I've got some shotguns and I'm itchin to shoot something besides clays.
Yeah, I've seen turkeys once in a while in a Florida, but they're few and far between in Palm Beach County where I grew up. But if you see one TPI, shoot it. Everyone I've talked to says they're better than store bought Turkey. You can only eat the breast meat though. The rest (legs, etc...) are too tough.
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Hey Golfer,
You're more than welcome to come down here next year when Spring Turkey season starts up. I'd invite you for the Fall season, but it's super tough to bag one in the Fall since they're not mating. In the spring, you can call the gobblers in because they think they're going to get a piece... LOL
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Originally posted by GrimCO
Hey Golfer,
You're more than welcome to come down here next year when Spring Turkey season starts up. I'd invite you for the Fall season, but it's super tough to bag one in the Fall since they're not mating. In the spring, you can call the gobblers in because they think they're going to get a piece... LOL
Thats what i told someone when they said i was clucking too much. I told them to go straight to hell because i've sat in the woods waiting to shoot one for 4 years before i got one, and the whole time saw nothing but hens. During that time, i had plenty of experiences to observe hens and how the actual turkey acted...I once had a hen sneak to within 10 yards of me before i saw it, i was thinking it was my uncle trying to play games with me and when out from behind a rose bush pops a hen. It acted exactly opposite of what the videos say...it clucked the whole damn time.
What i've learned:
1. Hens...like women...NEVER EVER SHADDUP...call all you want.
2. Limit calls when a gobbler is near to clucks and purrs.
3. "If i was a horny turkey...what would i do" mentality will take you far.
Good luck...How much is an out-of-state license and tag in the jelly state?
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can you spell R.E.D.N.E.C.K?:)
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Udet,
What is it about hunting turkeys that makes one a redneck? Are you just refering to what happens if you hunt with a collarless shirt?
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A couple of friends and I just got back from the range. One of them and I got drawn for deer this year. He's taking a .308 Win Rugger M77RSI and I was shooting my new Springfield '03 in .338 WinMag.