How bad have you got it???

[Strut10]

Let's hear your stories.

What extreme or fanatic or off-the-wall things have turkeys or turkey hunting made you do??

I've got lots. I'll post some later.

[hangunnr]

They made me drive 8 hours and just about die climbing hills in bear infested country..................

hangunnr

[VTbowman]

Season 2 for me and I am basically trying to buy everything all at once. Little does my wife know. LOL
Last year Josh (vtbowhunter) invited me to hunt with him on his families land. He had everything and all scouting, blinds set up, turkeys located. The full meal deal. I brought my 870 pump and hope and dreams. 2 mornings later I was 2 jakes richers... LOL
This year I am going to get my own stuff.. Or die trying... LOL

[buckbuster11]

Generally they make me get up at the wee hours of the morning every single day, and that madness will start in a few weeks. By the time the season starts I am already a walking zombie. Then something along the following lines usually occurs everyday...I set up on one ridge with no luck. Then I haul it a half mile or so to another ridge, when at that point a gobbler starts going bizerk on the ridge I just came from. So, I haul the mail back over there...and repeat.

Turkeys have also been known to make me crazy, curse repeatedly, anti-social, and sleep deprived.

[BRDNSPR]

The madness starts end of March scouting and goes to hunting until end of May...Caused the end of my first marriage ! Oh Well..Love the gobblin..

[maddhunter]

WILL MOST LIKELY CAUSE THE END OF MY FIRST MARRIGE, SOON AS THE KIDS ARE GROWN
Combined with deer hunting, fishing, hunting, getting ready for hunting, scouting, house smells like dirt and sounds like a turkey farm!!!!!!

[Nick]

Prom my junior year just happened to fall on Saturday and Sunday would be my last day to hunt......Now im not gonna miss the last day of turkey season for prom, but I also wanted to go to prom. So I decided I was going to have to load the truck with my turkey hutning equipment and take that to the prom. I picked my date up in the truck and we went to the prom and post prom. I knew if i wanted to make it to my spot by daylight, i needed to leave town by 3am (2 hour drive up north to my spot). So at 2:45 i told my date " i really need to get going......my mom wants me home by 3am . So I dropped her off and put the pedal to the metal all the way to my spot. Went in the camper, took off the tux and put the camo on and sprinted to the bottom gate where my uncle was already waiting. Needless to say....my date wasnt too impressed when she found out the REAL reason why I had to leave so early.

[MrWiggely]

Ive got it so bad Im thinking Im going to head to Ohio to get some action 13 days early.

Wigs

[redbeard]

Like you Strut, I have many. Heck, everything I do from Jan til Mar is for turks, how bad is that. I guess the most extreme thing I've done can be described by the following story. I'd been hunting these pasture toms for weeks on end. Had some glorious hunts, got to see all the trimmin's. Yet, as most pasture toms do, they tend to strutt way out in the middle where they can be seen from corner to corner. Every call I threw out seemed to draw their interest, as they would strutt, fan, drum (but never gobble) closer and closer to my setup. Sounds good huh? Well, they evidently were surveyors as they never inched any closed than 75 yards to the edges of that pasture. Leatherwood creek ran right across that pasture and it was a good 'un. Not a branch nor a stream but more like a narrow river, so I came to find out. I would've swore it were a creek when I stepped into it, that was until I sunk up to my pod. You see, I'd had enough of teasing. I figured I could ease thru Leatherwood Creek, call, ease my head up just to see if they'd gotten any closer. I did just that. Everytime I poked my head up, they were the same distance away, just easing along. I did the same, hoping for that opportune moment, when we were close enough for an introduction. Well we continued and soon enough I'd had plenty, especially when I poked my head up and saw nothing. I got outa that miniture river and was just a sloshin' my way back to the truck. I had to round a bend and walk a wooden bridge over that same creek to get to the truck and lo and behold, what's sittin' right on the dad gum bridge, but that tom turkey in full strut, his buddie right beside him. Heck, I wasn't 20 yds from 'em and up went the SP10 and down went one fine tom. Sure I didn't call 'em up, but maybe they were waitin' for those "hens" they'ed been hearin' to float down the creek and under the bridge Shot that tom at exactly 20 steps while he was struttin and I found copper all around him in the sand. Tough ole bird fer sure. I let the other one fly on off down the creek. I was happy

[HuntnMa]

i havent been as abd this year as in the past, the only hting i have done would be the fact that i got a broom and i swept the turjey tracks off the road, that was yeasterday.....they were going into where i want to hunt and i have to protect it, lol.......

[13littleones]

Got my first bird with 7 1/2 shot

Missed a jake at 10 yards and got it 40 yards as it was flying away

longest beard..12"

longest spur 1 1/4

heviest bird 23 1/2

spent 4 days of my life hunting one single bird (wish I would have mounted that one)

chasing a flock of turkeys in the fall to break them up and ran into a barbed wire fence at full speed..... did a complete flip........lucky for me it was dull, old and rusty..

I drive 7 hours to MO. 2 weekends in the spring to hunt

shot a bird at 55 steps...I was in a treestand and it threw me off..... I never shoot past 40 yards..

Hunting on public land , I have had as many as 5 people calling to one bird at one time...is that dangerous or what ! ........ anyways.... I figured out how to shoot that bird.. I did it twice and works like a charm....... now I just walk away if I hear another person calling to the same bird I'm working..

watched a flock of 125 birds fly acrooss a river (that was awsome)

they say turkeys love acorns....I always check to see what they are eating..... of all the birds I have shot.... I found only 1 single acorn!

Had a turkey coming in on a rope staight for me at 60 yards... a small redfox took a jump at him bye bye turkey !

had a hen 2' away from me

found 13 little polts and one pissed of hen lol

I had 7 gobblers all around me within 200 yards .... a serious thunderstorm was a few miles away....A big clap of thunder = 7 gobblers sounding of at the same time... AWSOME !

[Strut10]

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They made me drive 8 hours and just about die climbing hills in bear infested country..................

hangunnr

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But..................did you kill one?????????

[HeviShot]

IIII JJJust jjust waaant TTTO Ggggo IIIII MMIght GGO NNNUUTS If III DON't SSSSoooooNNN!!!!

[Strut10]

One morning I was calling for my brother. There was a tom gobbling his head off across the valley. So we slid on our butts down a very long, very steep hill and waded a 30 yard wide, thigh deep creek (no waders or nothin'). It was 25 degrees that morning!!

The tom shut up just about the time we reached the far bank. So we had to re-trace our path to get back to the truck.

[snapper]

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They made me drive 8 hours and just about die climbing hills in bear infested country..................

hangunnr


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Those weren't bear's...those were coyotes dressed up as bears to try and scare you away!