Turkey Season
 

Who is getting ready? My buddy sent me a video this morning from our lease of a gobbler soundin off on the roost! Got me itchin to get out there! Come on March 19th! Fixing to head out to big lake for an evening wade then probably hanging it up till after turkey season.

YES!!!! just found out I'm off all next week & the boys are out school also! Got one still good for youth week!!!! :) just imagining hearing one drumming right now & they hair stood up on the back my neck!!!! :)

Man I am so ready. Come on 19th.

Ours starts the 12th in Ms! Youth is 5th-11th

man i always say im gonna make a hunt in MS the week before ours but never do. They should open LA same time as MS.

Our season opens too early now.....don't need it to open earlier.

Just got off the phone with my buddy, said heard 6 different birds this past w/e.
Went one morning last year at break of daylight & heard what I could keep track of was I think 11 different birds! They were all the way around me, I didn't know which way to go!

I heard quite a few opening weekend last year as well. Where I hunt which im sure is similar to where u hunt, there are lots of ridges. It's hard to get em off their ridge or get close.

As we speak, I am waiting for FedEx to drop off my birthday present from my wife! I had a 12 year old Browning Gold 3.5" shotgun that has been used from shooting bird, to breaking brush. It was even used as a crutch when I had a ankle injury on a hunt years ago. This gun was used and abused!

She got me a camo dip on the gun so I am hoping it turned out good. The old black synthetic on it looked like it had been drug behind a truck on a chain, and the bluing was plum worn off of the metal in lots of places! I am pumped since it is my turkey killing machine!!!

1st of you have a good wife!
I have a couple of those like that, look like they've been drug down 9 miles of bad
gravel road. Wouldn't trade anything in the world for em! One is a Winchester model 100 in 308 it looks baaaad, a deer killin machine though!

I can't wait Bens Creek WMA is loaded down with birds and that's my lil place not far from the house...any of you ever hunt there??

I live about 5 miles from Ben's Creek. I got banned from there a few years ago! :cry: I used to go out there a couple of weeks before the season opened with my vid camera and call the feathers off them gobblers. They wouldn't open their mouth when the season opened. :smokin:

I'm sitting in the woods right now listening. Ain't heard crap! Just had 3 deer come about 40 yards from me. Never knew I was here. Hopefully they start talking by next weekend.

You done run 'em all off messin' with that phone. :rolleyes:

Went ride to another piece and saw tracks in every food plot. Might have to try there next weekend.

You up by Little Alabama?

I scouted for ~ 7 hours Friday.....never heard a Turkey.

No I was on my property in St. Francisville. I got picked for 21-23 on Sherbune. Gonna go listen maybe Thursday out there. Is the water high?

The water is just a little high.

The water level has stayed about the same for the last couple of months.

I got a spot that was covered with birds year before last when the water was low off Iron Gate Rd. If the water is low enough to get back there, they should be in there.

they have turkeys on sherburne?

yes I would probably say the most populated WMA in the state. Season is only a week long and they usually average 60-75 birds a season. About 4 years ago I think they killed 92.

i'm huntn somethin but it may not be a turkey :D

Hawgs or Hogs? :rotfl:

both :help: :p

It's still a gobbler.

I have never hunted in that area......always heard that there were a lot of hunters that hunt that area, so I stay away from there. There are too many roads in that area so it is easy to hunt from the road.

You are right there is usually a bunch of people back there. I try and get out there very early and beat everyone out there though.

Went solo this morning behind my camp in St Francisville. Went listen yesterday afternoon at one of my favorite spots, nothin. So decided to go to another spot I know they like to hang. They were there. 3 gobblers with hens sounding off within 100 yds of me but there was a creek b/w us. Couldn't get any closer cause I knew I would be seen. They pitched down went other way to an open field. I crept up to field and peak my head over and there they are standing about 60-70 yards struttin. I laid down and tried to get them closer by calling soft but couldn't. Decided to take the shot aimed a little high and MISSED! Oh well, it happens. I'm gonna give em a break and go slide back there tom morning and try and cut em off. I'm still sitting in the woods with not much going on. My buddies on another piece heard 3 but couldn't get them to cooperate.

I am gonna be the first and chime in on this and it may seem a little Louisiana Sportsman dot com-like but..........60-70 yds? and aim high with a shotgun? Yes we all know people that kill them regularly at that distance, but would you shoot a duck that far? That is all I will say for now, and why in the world are you on the internet when you have the best scenery right in front of you? Sorry had to say it, work has me tied up until next weekend so i guess i am jealous, I will have my phone with me also out there, but it will be off and the only calls I make will be to the wife late in the evenings to let her know I am alive and thats it:grinpimp:

Thanks for the advice Will Primos! I was shootin a 10 gauge and decided to try. Yes now I know it was a mistake, should have never tried it. But figured I would post the good reports and the bad. And it was 9am when I was on the internet, nothing was going on I was just sitting under a tree trying to kill time by "playing on the Internet."

:D Tune in next week as we will discuss 40 yard pass shots at ducks, 50 yard bow shots thru brush, the 300 yd pipeline shot on deer, and texting while fishing:)

lmao