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I have gotten over the hump of deer season, and while I will still deer hunt until the end, I have just started to get the first signs of turkey anticipation. when the gobblers fired up on saturday morning, that was all it took. 8 deer down has got me a bit worn out but I will still kill a couple more deer if I can, because I love it, but now that I have gotten over the "hump" I am starting to transition into a spring turkey mood... I know swamphunter already is, who else is ready?
 
I am always ready for spring turkey season. I wish it would never end. Spring Turkey hunting is my favorite thing to do on the planet.
 
Turkeys are the reason I took an interest in hunting. I turkey hunted before I deer hunted, killed my first turkey before my first deer, and man I love deer hunting but there ain't nothing like having ol tom gobble his head off at your clucks and yelps. and there's nothing like sitting near a tree line or ridge as dawn cracks and hearing the birds wake up, and the first gobble, and then the wing beats and cackles, well you know. Can't get too excited, got another month of deer season.
 
Gravey said:
Grizzly Johnson said:
woodsman87 said:
I am always ready for spring turkey season. I wish it would never end. Spring Turkey hunting is my favorite thing to do on the planet.
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X3. I started out deer hunting way before turkeys but they are my passion.
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x4! After November I get always get that old time feeling :D
 
I've gotten to where I like turkey hunting just as much as deer hunting, I thought I would never say that. This will be my fourteenth season, and still learn stuff each year. It took me three years to kill a bird, but I was young and there were not near as many turkey as there are now.
 
I am getting turkey fever now. Going on four deer seasons without killing a buck is starting to get to me.
I love to deer hunt, but I just don't see anything that gets me excited like it used to. My dad is the same way. He gave up deer hunting when he kinda weaned me to hunt alone. I feel like I am going to follow his footsteps and just turkey hunt and get some kind of dog to hunt with during fall like he does.
I would rather kill an average two or three year old gobbler than a 160'' ten pointer.
 
My wife and I were just talking about this last night. She hasnt gotten to turkey hunt much since babies in the last few years. She said i really hope i get to kill a big gobbling, strutting, spitting, thunder chicken this year. I think ill try to make that happen. LOL
 
The fever has started to set it for me, after opening some new calls for Christmas I've started a count down! Any body traveling out of state to get an earlier start to their season?
 
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skillet said:
Any body traveling out of state to get an earlier start to their season?
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I take my son to MS for the youth hunt every year.
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Hey Swamp, my son and I both killed a Decatur county Gobbler this fall. Only 6 birds killed countywide and 2 were hens(and you know what I think about killing hens, lol). So our place produced half of the male birds killed in the county.
 
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Swamphunter said:
skillet said:
Any body traveling out of state to get an earlier start to their season?
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I take my son to MS for the youth hunt every year.
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Hey Swamp, my son and I both killed a Decatur county Gobbler this fall. Only 6 birds killed countywide and 2 were hens(and you know what I think about killing hens, lol). So our place produced half of the male birds killed in the county.
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That's pretty cool! I got in a new club in Fayette County (less than an hour from home) that is flat covered with birds, but I will be coming your way some too.
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Sounds like a winner on your new club!The day before I killed the gobbler, I had two flocks totaling 23 hens all over me, including three bearded hens. And the gobbler was loosly connected to 14 other gobblers. Hopefully, some of them will survive til March 30th!
 

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