season total

[callemquacktn]

31,411

We beat 07 & 08 yr totals

 

[FARMTOFIELD]

Lawrence County falls in with a whopping 189 birds....

Pitiful

 

[Setterman]

In 07 and 08 there weren't tools available to make it basically a guarantee to kill birds with no skill.

My counties were down, some by several hundred birds.

 

[Tennessee Lead]

I would like to know if the "experts" allow a percentage to be totaled in of "non checked" turkeys. I'd be willing to bet that number would be AT LEAST another 25% or more. Those "checked in" numbers are facts, yes, but the "realistic" number, I'm sure, is much, much higher.

Sadly you're right. Many many don't get tagged. That has happened long before the online check in took place.


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[callemquacktn]

I would like to know if the "experts" allow a percentage to be totaled in of "non checked" turkeys. I'd be willing to bet that number would be AT LEAST another 25% or more. Those "checked in" numbers are facts, yes, but the "realistic" number, I'm sure, is much, much higher.

I agree. I know of 6 birds from 1 farm that did not get checked in this yr.
I said something to them about not checking them in and they said they thought it was honor system and they didn't have to check them. Can't fix stupid. I showed the app for there phones and how to use it.

 

[bandit3]

I don't know the numbers for my county (Marion) but it was not a good year for me. Only one bird.

 

[woodsman87]

In 07 and 08 there weren't tools available to make it basically a guarantee to kill birds with no skill.

My counties were down, some by several hundred birds.

I agree with this, seems like fanning is about two years old, and full strut decoys is about 5-6 years old.

I dont remember when hevi shot, nitros, and tss came out. I just remember in about 02 or 03, seeing the original Remington hevi shot in the ten per box green shells, (best shells ever made) and getting some just to see how this expensive stuff worked. It patterned better than the other stuff significantly.
I used to just buy a box of whatever turkey shells and hunt with it, usually number 4's or 6's. Heck, heavy 2-3/4" number 4s out of a Remington 1100 improved choke was what I used until about 99.





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[PalsPal]

I agree with this, seems like fanning is about two years old, and full strut decoys is about 5-6 years old.

Tom Kelly (you know, "The 10th Legion" guy that some on here worship) was a proponent of fanning in 2009!

http://www.knoxnews.com/sports/tom-no-t ... to-fanning

 

[Tennessee Lead]

I agree with this, seems like fanning is about two years old, and full strut decoys is about 5-6 years old.

Tom Kelly (you know, "The 10th Legion" guy that some on here worship) was a proponent of fanning in 2009!

http://www.knoxnews.com/sports/tom-no-t ... to-fanning

I saw a video 3 weeks ago of him "Fanning " . I started to post it here but didn't. I was shocked [emoji33]
Won't be long and he will be pushing the Mojo gadget. [emoji24]


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[woodsman87]

Didnt know he was a propenent of fanning.
I have no issue with fanning, just full strut decoys. Fanni g just seems dangerous.

I like Tom Kelley, his books, and his views of turkey hunting. My favorite is how he illustrates deer hunters in the tenth legion book.

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[ZachMarkus]

I fanned my first gobbler in 2010, never heard of it before at the time, 4 big gobblers would fly down in this big huge field with a bunch of hens and strut all day long, I finally got tired of chasing them around and around the field multiple times only for them to walk 60 yards from me, i didnt own any decoys but I had some fans from other bird I had killed in my shed, I thought I would just hide in the bushes on the edge of the field and show me the fan and they might come close enough for a shot, I got set up and the birds were about 100 yards strutting when they saw the fan they started strutting towards me, so then I started crawling towards them, I crawled about 30 yards out in the field and all four of them came running/strutting to me and I shot the biggest one at 10 steps.

 

[ZachMarkus]

I'm still ok with outlawing it though, too many gobblers will get killed that wouldn't otherwise and somebody will try to fan one in the woods or something and get shot in the face.

 

[Roost 1]

In 07 and 08 there weren't tools available to make it basically a guarantee to kill birds with no skill.

My counties were down, some by several hundred birds.

I agree with this, seems like fanning is about two years old, and full strut decoys is about 5-6 years old.

I dont remember when hevi shot, nitros, and tss came out. I just remember in about 02 or 03, seeing the original Remington hevi shot in the ten per box green shells, (best shells ever made) and getting some just to see how this expensive stuff worked. It patterned better than the other stuff significantly.
I used to just buy a box of whatever turkey shells and hunt with it, usually number 4's or 6's. Heck, heavy 2-3/4" number 4s out of a Remington 1100 improved choke was what I used until about 99.





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Trust me "fanning" has been around much longer than a few years.....Its only been promoted on TV the last couple.. It is a tactic that has been used but never talked about for MANY years.....at least by some...

 

[ZachMarkus]

In 07 and 08 there weren't tools available to make it basically a guarantee to kill birds with no skill.

My counties were down, some by several hundred birds.

I agree with this, seems like fanning is about two years old, and full strut decoys is about 5-6 years old.

I dont remember when hevi shot, nitros, and tss came out. I just remember in about 02 or 03, seeing the original Remington hevi shot in the ten per box green shells, (best shells ever made) and getting some just to see how this expensive stuff worked. It patterned better than the other stuff significantly.
I used to just buy a box of whatever turkey shells and hunt with it, usually number 4's or 6's. Heck, heavy 2-3/4" number 4s out of a Remington 1100 improved choke was what I used until about 99.





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Trust me "fanning" has been around much longer than a few years.....Its only been promoted on TV the last couple.. It is a tactic that has been used but never talked about for MANY years.....at least by some...

Yep

 

[woodsman87]

In 07 and 08 there weren't tools available to make it basically a guarantee to kill birds with no skill.

My counties were down, some by several hundred birds.

I agree with this, seems like fanning is about two years old, and full strut decoys is about 5-6 years old.

I dont remember when hevi shot, nitros, and tss came out. I just remember in about 02 or 03, seeing the original Remington hevi shot in the ten per box green shells, (best shells ever made) and getting some just to see how this expensive stuff worked. It patterned better than the other stuff significantly.
I used to just buy a box of whatever turkey shells and hunt with it, usually number 4's or 6's. Heck, heavy 2-3/4" number 4s out of a Remington 1100 improved choke was what I used until about 99.





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Trust me "fanning" has been around much longer than a few years.....Its only been promoted on TV the last couple.. It is a tactic that has been used but never talked about for MANY years.....at least by some...

Yep

Oh I believe you, I am just talking about the popularity of it.





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[catman529]

In 07 and 08 there weren't tools available to make it basically a guarantee to kill birds with no skill.

My counties were down, some by several hundred birds.

just because you sat over decoys once and it worked, does not mean they are tools to make it "basically a guarantee". There are many factors that can screw up a hunt over decoys, I've seen it myself this year on private low-pressure turkey infested property. I watched an attempt at fanning that was going well until more birds entered the field and caused a bunch of putting turkeys and ended up with an empty field. I've hunted over dekes a handful of times and have yet to kill one over em. they can be feast or famine, they can make your hunt all too easy or they can ruin it, or often have little to no effect at all.


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[ZachMarkus]

In 07 and 08 there weren't tools available to make it basically a guarantee to kill birds with no skill.

My counties were down, some by several hundred birds.

I agree with this, seems like fanning is about two years old, and full strut decoys is about 5-6 years old.

I dont remember when hevi shot, nitros, and tss came out. I just remember in about 02 or 03, seeing the original Remington hevi shot in the ten per box green shells, (best shells ever made) and getting some just to see how this expensive stuff worked. It patterned better than the other stuff significantly.
I used to just buy a box of whatever turkey shells and hunt with it, usually number 4's or 6's. Heck, heavy 2-3/4" number 4s out of a Remington 1100 improved choke was what I used until about 99.





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Trust me "fanning" has been around much longer than a few years.....Its only been promoted on TV the last couple.. It is a tactic that has been used but never talked about for MANY years.....at least by some...

Yep

Oh I believe you, I am just talking about the popularity of it.





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Yeah you're right, they started promoting a year or two ago and now its all over all the hunting shows, face book, magazines, it's everywhere, I'm afraid it's really gonna take a toll on the turkey population in the next few years on top of everything else.

 

[megalomaniac]

Wow, 31,000!!! that's great!

Wait, isn't that just a tad under the projected 75,000 we were supposed to be killing according to the biologist a couple decades ago?

Oops, nevermind. We aren't supposed to remember that. Turkeys are overpopulating in TN and doing just fine! Another record kill this year! hurrah!

 

[102]

If fanning or decoying is the name of the game, then I guess I am just NOT a turkey hunter.

I have no access to any fields that have turkey. So I have to hunt big woods, like the same woods I often deer hunt.

Field hunting for turkeys is something I have done VERY little.

I have seen it done, participated a couple of times myself, but for me, sitting in a blind, or field edge, waiting (like a deer stand) for a turkey to show itself, sounds very strange to me.

So fanning, decoying, etc...is something of which I know NOTHING about.

Knowing vast acres of open hardwoods, and playing cat and mouse with a pressured gobbler, then calling him in to inside 40 yards, after repeated attempts over often several days...that is my thing. (in the month of April, my pedometer counted 160 miles)

Crawling on ones belly while looking like a strutting Tom, in the woods that I frequent...would probably have EXTREMELY bad consequences.

Either by another hunter (accident) or more than likely by ole "no shoulders" (on purpose).

I learned to turkey hunt from a man named Ben Rodgers Lee many years ago.
He taught us to scout an area, find where the birds are scratching, and be high on a ridge in hearing distance before the first song bird chirped in the morning.

(who cooks for you, who cooks for you all) owl hoot. Locate bird, move to within reasonable range without spooking him, and get him to answer you with a few tree yelps or ???

Then the "fun" begins.

If anyone would like to swap a field hunt for open hardwoods next year, PM me. There will be walking!
We might even have to go bow fishing!