Looking forward to this spring! I haven't turkey hunted in probably 5 or 6 years. I've gotten a couple in the past. I'm really looking forward to it since I'm taking my 7 year old out with me :thumbsup: We sat in the deer blind a couple times last year but didn't have any luck. But I know the turkeys will bring some action! There is a established flock on the farm I hunt. Even if it's just working one. Nothing sends a little chill down your spine like a thunderous gobble in the early morning! If luck is on our side we'll be having turkey for dinner :D

Some of my most memorable hunting experiences have been Spring Gobbler hunting. Having a gobbler answer your call is truly exciting, as it gets closer and closer. Should be a great experience for your son, too. Here, you have to be out of the woods by Noon, so if there's any action at all, he won't have time to get bored.

Good luck!

I gave up hunting because of Turkey hunting here in NJ. I was calling in a gobbler and a NUT behind me shoot over my head (missing by inches) to get the bird. If I wasn't a passive individual, I would have shoot the guy. That was my last hunt.

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Come out here and you can sit on my back porch and pick them off the roof. We have an ever increasing herd of about 50 of them.

I'll be out in late April. Missed a jake behind some brush last year, hoping for a better chance this year.

I used to hunt them before we got over run with them. I would like nothing more than to see them go away. They swarm thru an area and wipe out every acorn for miles. Not much farm land where I hunt deer and now the turkeys are cleaning up all the feed. Anybody want to shoot a couple hundred of those pesky varmits, call me. They're more like feathered rats to the locals.

Wow I wish I had turkey problems like that R66. to me wild turkey is the best meat on the planet. We have turkey on our lease in Texas but they have to compete against the hogs and deer for food and the hogs win most of the time and the turkeys leave. When the hog population is down for the year the turkeys show up but if the hogs get plenty of water and stick around the turkeys head up unto the thickets and we never see them. We just shoot them with rifles while deer hunting. During spring we never see them our best time is winter.

When I first saw this, I thought it was another andy69/buick post. :D

herds like that here too. if you see one, you'll see 30 more right behind it.

l:)feathered rats l:)

My 11 yr old got his first turkey this past fall. :thumbsup: He keeps asking "when does turkey season start?" Not too much longer... :D

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I've been turkey hunting since 1981. From 1993 to 1997 I was on the Pro Staff for Primos Game Calls.. I remember when it was hard to see another hunter in the woods around here. You still had to go to hte mountains to hunt them. My son started 4 years ago and has taken 3 spring birds. Now I have a flock of about 40 staying 100 yards from my house and it's a residential neighborhood. You cant hunt them here. Times have sure changed!!