2013 Spring Turkey Hunting Daily Reports

04/27/13- beautiful morning, took a friend who is learning to turkey hunt, made the long walk back onto a property I hunt and heard a single gobbler at dawn gobbling, got closer to him, set up in a small clearing in the woods, called, and he gobbled, but two other gobblers also gobbled on the other side of us, nice, we were between gobbling birds, no more than 10 minutes later the birds on the right were hot and responding and closing in, the single bird shut up after fly down, then my friend said here they come, I looked to my right and there came a jake and hen almost running to the decoys, the big gobblers were hangigng back and the jake was trying to beat them to the punch, he and the hen went behind some brush and my friend lost sight of them and before he knew it they were standing at the decoys, I told my friend to shoot the jake, my friend said where are they at because he wasn't facing the decoys, I said to your left, he tried to swing and shoot the jake but missed cleanly, they ran away. We stayed all morning and heard one more gobble and that was it, no more action. My friend was pretty disappointed but I told him that's how it goes sometimes, live and learn. His respect for these crazy birds grew some yesterday morning, but I can tell he's already "hooked"!

04/28/13- up to hunt this morning but its storming so I'm taking the morning off, I could use a few more hours sleep anyway, turkey season will wear you out!

Excellent job Curtis. That is an awesome bird, and great pics. Love reading your stories. Keep up the great work. Hope to add to the turkey hunting success.

Congrats on the gobbler BB. Good read as always.

I haven't hunted since last Tuesday. Torn between hunting turkeys and groundhogs. Groundhogs been winning, hunted them three days last week. Going after a gobbler this week though.

04/30/13- Heard one gobbling on the roost on a neighboring property, got as close as possible on the fence line and called, he flew down and met up with some hens and never came our way, back to work early today.

On vacation this week,haven't heard a gobble in 2days tough hunting,but managed to shoot one of the tight lipped suckers after 2 1/2hrs. of working him setting 150yds. from me,,,he gave in and gave me a 50yd. shot and he is now getting cut up!!!!!!!

Congratulations Longdraw!! Sounds like they were rough on ya!!

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La Due Resevior Public Land Gobbler,19 lbs,5" beard,1" spurs. 25 yard shot. I shot him opening morning he was with 2 other gobblers and had 3 hens with them.

Finally made it out this morning. Made it out and set up by 5:45 just as a few were gobbling. Called for a little bit but just could make him come in. I'm thinking he had a pretty little hen with him. I did have 3 does feed about 15 yards in front of me for about 10 minutes. It sure felt good to be out in the woods again.

Congrats Mike and Z7. So where's the picture Mike, let's see that big ole tom.