How far would you go !!

[PalsPal]

How do you guys do this? Swim with boots on? Carry them and your gun while swimming? Maybe the "rivers" y'all have are different than the ones around here. I couldn't begin to imagine how to swim across the rivers around here with my gun and boots. Especially during spring when water and current is up.

It's not that hard.

I usually take off the boots, tie one around the barrel at the front sight, then tie the other around the butt of the gun around the sling swivel. This helps balance the weight of the gun as I clench it between my teeth for the swim !

Most of us have fallen under the spell of a gobbling turkey and found ourselves in hairy predicaments because we were too preoccupied with the bird.

But, as I've gotten olde... I mean wiser, I usually try to avoid them if possible!

 

[deerhunter10]

Anyone that would swim a raging river or go out in a lightning storm and risk not coming home to his family over a turkey is a dammn fool. There will be other days and other seasons but your kids only have one Dad. I suspect most of this is tall tales anyway.

I don't think its dumb at all.

You don't think it's dumb to risk your life over 1 turkey or 1 day of hunting? Seriously? :crazy:

taking it our of context. but no I don't think it is dumb to hunt even though the may be calling for a thunderstorm or something like final steps said in the spring storms comes up just be safe about it. im not running back home. ill wait it out in a shooting house or the truck or barns. ive never swam across anything turkey hunting. ive waded a few creeks but nothing real crazy. the way I look at it as soon as you leave the house you are risking your life. so a little thunderstorm is not going to scare me off. just use common sense and you'll be fine. that's what I mean. Im not off during the whole turkey season I have college, I own my own mowing business 30 yards, and I have another job. when I can get out I am going to make the best of it. I cant wait for the perfect day. things happen what you do while those things happen is what matters. that's what mean. using common sense will keep you safe. you cant control the weather just have to deal with the cards you are given that's what I mean. but that's just me like I said to each their own.

 

[Spurhunter]

Good discussion is always welcome.... Lets keep it civil... please.

My apologies Grizzly. I will be more careful with my wording.

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

Good discussion is always welcome.... Lets keep it civil... please.

My apologies Grizzly. I will be more careful with my wording.

I wasn't pointing fingers.... just putting out a friendly reminder.... I don't want it to get past the point of no return....

 

[muddyboots]

Tornado. Birds everywhere

 

[Frank G]

Nothing fires up a gobbler like thunder, but that is where i draw the line

100% correct Elkman. Even if the thunder is off at a distance, I had one do that right behind me one afternoon. Well he beat feet when I jumped, :cry: when a big bird lets go they are loud especially when their just 10� away. Had a 270* field of view, perfect set up, backed up agnist a tree with thick briers just behind. Guess where he was, just like a deer.

 

[Spurhunter]

Good discussion is always welcome.... Lets keep it civil... please.

My apologies Grizzly. I will be more careful with my wording.

I wasn't pointing fingers.... just putting out a friendly reminder.... I don't want it to get past the point of no return....

No problem man. I made a borderline comment. I forget you are one of those highly paid mods now! :grin:

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

Good discussion is always welcome.... Lets keep it civil... please.

My apologies Grizzly. I will be more careful with my wording.

I wasn't pointing fingers.... just putting out a friendly reminder.... I don't want it to get past the point of no return....

No problem man. I made a borderline comment. I forget you are one of those highly paid mods now! :grin:

Not hardly bro!!

 

[chebuck]

One time after a hard mourning hunt. I had not herd a single bird and was walking back to the truck. I spot a bird 700-800 yds. down the creek bottom. Well there I go belly crawling down this creek when it's 50 degrees. Needless to say when I finally stuck my head up out of the creek bank. There it was standing at 30yds. But it was a goose. I now carry binoculars!

 

[Final steps TC]

One time after a hard mourning hunt. I had not herd a single bird and was walking back to the truck. I spot a bird 700-800 yds. down the creek bottom. Well there I go belly crawling down this creek when it's 50 degrees. Needless to say when I finally stuck my head up out of the creek bank. There it was standing at 30yds. But it was a goose. I now carry binoculars!

Now that's funny !!

 

[easy45]

I hunted during a tornado warning that had a mean lightening storm but everytime it thundered they would gobble so I kept going

 

[jb3]

Not a bad weather turkey hunter. Might get the sticker on my barrel wet.

 

[Frank G]

One time after a hard mourning hunt. I had not herd a single bird and was walking back to the truck. I spot a bird 700-800 yds. down the creek bottom. Well there I go belly crawling down this creek when it's 50 degrees. Needless to say when I finally stuck my head up out of the creek bank. There it was standing at 30yds. But it was a goose. I now carry binoculars!

Now that's funny !!

Must have been a MEGA goose to see one at 700>800 yds. Was it Mother Goose :grin:

 

[chebuck]

I dont know but it sure looked like a longbeard at the time. Lol.

 

[callemquacktn]

Once, I forgot to bring my cushion for my chair in my tent blind...but I stuck it out. Another time, my wife didn't make my lemonade sweet enough...I called it a day and came home.

Excellent!

I love these threads. Next can we see who can eat the hottest peppers or maybe do some indian burns with a pencil eraser?

Anyone that would swim a raging river or go out in a lightning storm and risk not coming home to his family over a turkey is a dammn fool. There will be other days and other seasons but your kids only have one Dad. I suspect most of this is tall tales anyway.

No stretching the truth here. I have plenty of witnesses.

 

[Spurhunter]

No stretching the truth her. I have plenty of witnesses.

So not only did you show up 2 hours before daylight in a monsoon/lightening storm and belly crawl across a field, you brought out "plenty of witnesses" in those weather conditions to witness it? :whistle:

 

[callemquacktn]

Spurhunter, I started Turkey hunting in W tn when I was 12 and you did good to hear a bird gobble all season. That was 23 yrs ago. I didn't have a wife then and sure didn't have a kid. I never said what I did was smart. The question asked was what we had done for a bird.
Not sure how west you are but as a kid I can remember wading flooded timber looking for those dry high spots where the turkeys would hang out during floods. Got chased by a cottonmouth or two doing it.
About 5 yrs ago my 10 yr old son and I was hunting public land in Oklahoma for Rio's . There was this big creek that was keeping us from some gobblers we was hearing. So I took my socks and boots and tied the laces together. Put them around my neck put my vest on my sons back. I put him on my shoulders. He put a gun on each shoulder and through the creek we went. Water was chest deep. We really was a site a few hrs later coming back across with a 20+ lbs rio in the vest.

 

[callemquacktn]

No stretching the truth her. I have plenty of witnesses.

So not only did you show up 2 hours before daylight in a monsoon/lightening storm and belly crawl across a field, you brought out "plenty of witnesses" in those weather conditions to witness it? :whistle:

No I had two other buddies hunting that morning too. They stayed in their trucks since they was scared of lightning. They was still sitting in their trucks when I got back to my truck. I had only been married a short time too and my wife was not happy. My wife has always said I was possessed when it comes to turkeys.

 

[gobblinfool]

A few years ago I hunted in that flood, had a bird at 50 yards that just hung up! Gobbled at everything I threw at him and everytime the lightning struck...was a miracle to get out of their because everywhere it was flooded.