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Sitting here this evening have a cold one and realizing that in one week another turkey season will be gone. I'll miss the cool mornings, warm sun after one of those mornings, sweet smells of a mountain spring, and most of all the game.

There are many hours of boredom, frustration, excitement, and peace in the turkey woods. I'll miss them all next Sunday evening.

I'll miss the googan encounters.

I'll miss the early morning traffic and running red lights on Kingston pike because I can't wait any longer.

I'll miss my morning dump being on a mountain side.

I'll miss messing with chunks of shale looking for the perfect imprint of a fossilized fern, to give to my mother as I have every Mother's Day for a long time

I'll miss that first gobble of the day.

I'll miss the contemplation of how to set up, how to move, when to move, when not to move.

I'll miss getting back to the truck and thinking, what's wrong with these stupid birds.

I'll miss the satisfaction of toting 20 pounds of the greatest creature I've ever hunted on my back.

I'll miss the pure exhaustion of climbing on all fours to reach and a good listening spot for 30 minutes.

Most of all I'll miss the stories from my buds, and the laughter over our screw ups.

This is a privilege to experience this sport. I'll miss all of it.

How about y'all? What will you miss next week?
 
The solitude. I like people. And I have hunting buddies. But 95% of the time I turkey hunt alone. Other than driving or sitting in an office working during the week, hunting time is the only alone time I get. And especially the only time I can really clear my mind of stress and responsbility.
 
I'll miss pretty much everything you just said. It will be good to catch up on some sleep and housework.

And I'll already be looking toward to next year. Piss on deer season.


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Yep it's starting to get to that time of year. Time to get back to fishing to get my mind off it


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I'll miss exploring the backcountry of large public lands. Yes you can still explore but with the leaves coming on, you just can't see as well. I prefer exploring with the ability to shoot something also.


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The anticipation of the first gobble of the day. The gobble is what drives me.

I'll always remember this quote from, at the time, a three year old little girl after her dad had taken her on a successful turkey hunt. Haley gave me a big kiss on the cheek and said, "You're the best Daddy in the whole wide world. Thank you for taking me out in the magical time of the morning when the turkeys gobble".

From the mouth of babes!
 
I will miss the time spent with my son in the woods trying to teach him what I know and seeing him learn. We'll make it up on the water though.

I will miss that first gobble of morning and trying to decide how to get to him, which direction he is going, and where to set up.

I will miss the cat and mouse game of when to call, when not to call, when to move, to call soft, to call light, to go silent, etc. etc.......

I will miss getting our butts kicked by a gobbler that knows how to play the game and telling my son " I hate stupid turkeys." I might not miss that, but that is what makes it exciting and will make me miss winning that game of chess as we tote a longbeard out of the woods.

I will miss the wake up of God's creation in the morning and the coolness in the air.

I won't miss the alarm clock at 4 in the morning. However, I just appreciate the opportunity of being out there when the time is right. After being plagued with unlucky injuries the last few years, things that you take for granted when you're healthy and seem easy aren't when you're hurt. That makes me appreciate being out there even more.
 
Yep, me, too.
I'll even miss watching those little ticks crawl up my boots,
make it about to my knee, before they just stop crawling, fall off, lying motionless, and dead, on the leaves.
Kudos to the inventor of Permethrin tick spray.
 
TheLBLman":117aaxz4 said:
Yep, me, too.
I'll even miss watching those little ticks crawl up my boots,
make it about to my knee, before they just stop crawling, fall off, lying motionless, and dead, on the leaves.
Kudos to the inventor of Permethrin tick spray.
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Whoever came up with the stuff deserves a Nobel prize

One time I sprayed a jumping spider that was on top of my pickup truck. It jumped, and when it hit the ground it was stone cold dead.

Brown recluses are a lot slower to die though, interestingly enough.

Nothing like watching a big lone star tick flip over on its back and start twitching
 
I'm tired... very tired... I miss it, but I'm glad season's over here. When I hunt, I'm all in... burning vacation, hour before daylight till dark, run and gun nonstop. Honey do chores piling up at the house, missing out on dates with the wife and daughters. I'm lucky to have a family that understands how much turkey season means to me, but it isn't fair to them to do this for more than a few weeks at a time. I've been selfish, now it's their time.... at least until deer season :)

I'll miss most the hunts with my little kids. My 10y/o daughter is the best... That kid has the potential to be an unreal turkey hunter. I hope she gets bitten by the bug.

The other thing I'll miss are the birds spitting and drumming just out of sight. I just never get over that. NEVER. I love the gobbles, but there's nothing like knowing they are in full strut less than 40 yards away and you can't see them just yet.
 
megalomaniac":1n9574iz said:
The other thing I'll miss are the birds spitting and drumming just out of sight. I just never get over that. NEVER. I love the gobbles, but there's nothing like knowing they are in full strut less than 40 yards away and you can't see them just yet.
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I love when I hear em drumming out of sight, but you know what really gets me tore up, is hearing foot steps in the crunchy leaves getting closer, and not being able to see him yet.
 
megalomaniac":3h4mf9wg said:
LOL, never got to hear the crunchy leaves this year... was always too wet every day I hunted :) But I do love it too!
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I had crunchy leaves a few times, especially my last trip on the lake. Dang it they got me tore up, even had a jake do it to me
 
Tennessee Lead":2lwbr5um said:
I will miss the season because I have already lol.
Least I've ever hunted.


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Life get in the way, or crappy hunting?
 
catman529":cnc5jvpk said:
Tennessee Lead":cnc5jvpk said:
I will miss the season because I have already lol.
Least I've ever hunted.


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Life get in the way, or crappy hunting?
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Life mainly just sorta put me in a funk.
I've been on 3 morning hunts this year and 3 terrible evenings that were windy and cold. Killed 1 first hunt had the 2nd in the bag on second morning hunt until 2 Jakes ran him off. Didn't shoot them and haven't heard a bird since. Gonna try for 1 more morning before it's over.


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I'll also miss reading on here. Always go dead post season until about February. I check it a lot though, I never read the deer thread or rarely read any other ones.

Kinda at a loss you know. I'm always here to talk turkey to someone.


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6 days and a tag left here. Close out Georgia Monday and Tuesday on the Chattahoochee. Tuesday night on the ride home I will begin to miss it. Until then, I am in full on turkey hunting mode. It is what I live for ;)
 
I'm downright depressed. It always goes by so quickly. Life always finds a way to cut into my hunting. I had a selfish 6-month-old boy get in the way this season [emoji3]. I'm making turkey calls now so I think that will help.


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