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Post by ridgecommander on Jun 16, 2020 20:14:00 GMT -5
Did I miss your turkey season report this year? How did you and your clan do?
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Post by davet on Jun 17, 2020 4:47:06 GMT -5
I can only think he and his group are still counting. I'm sure his garage looked like a turkey processing center at some point.
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Post by longbeard2372 on Jun 17, 2020 11:23:44 GMT -5
Did I miss your turkey season report this year? How did you and your clan do? One of our worst seasons ever. My brother that lives up there and lost his job in the oil patch the last week of March put in some serious scouting time and hunted all but 3 days of the season with his 12 year old son and only managed to roll one at 40 when he called 5 LBs in. Only to find out that at 10 yards his scope was off to the right 8". That was the third week. I took my wife out the first day and called a LB in to her and after killing a couple dozen birds in seasons past herself she made the rookie mistake of not having her head down on the gun when he periscoped up from the bench below silent and straight down the pipe only to see her move and hit the safety at 20 yds. He was gone. The second Saturday we didn't go up with 8" of snow and wind high of 29. The third Saturday we went back up and got her in on the same bird only to have him stay behind some tree tops at 40 yds with a hen. I myself was up for the whole third week and hunted hard. Herd one bird gobble on Monday 4 times and that was the last gobbler I seen or heard the rest of the week. Seen my first and only hen on that Friday. Hinted evenings too ! Came home memorial day. Back up for the last day. Got in danger close on a good bird in the roost and he gobbled good and mentally started to fill out my tag before he launched off the point and out into our meadow only to land and strut around our private gas well 90 yds out in the meadow for hours. I let him be. Went out with 4 hours of the season remaining and worked a coyote in our hay field that was out there in search of something. He caught my wind and was gone. So to be nosey I snuck over to that woods edge for a look. Got set up and felt my phone vibrate a email notice and a surprise cell phone service at that tree. Checked and deleted emails for 15 minutes all the while watching the the field. Checked the Instagram and looked off to my left and thought I seen a gobbler head in the hay. Grabbed my binos to positive identify it and sure enough it was. Switched my gun to the right shoulder ( I am a lefty) , gave a Jake yelp and the sucker stood up at 45 yds and the little 20 and the hand load of #9s smashes him. 16.8 lbs and 6" beard with exactly 2 hrs left in the season. Kept my streak of killing a gobbler every year since I started hunting them in 1997. And yes it is better to be lucky then good!!! There were tons of birds EVERYWHERE the week before the season but between more hunters scouting and hunting than we ever seen. More snow in the month of May then we have ever seen, more cold windy days then we ever seen in May it put a big dampener on the gobbling and kept the birds back in the timber. But from all the poults my brother is seeing in northern Potter the turkey rut was the same time as in always is and it looks like those hens in that region started incubation close to the 10-12 of May. Just as the May blizzard was hitting NoPo. That time frame pretty much makes the third week a great week to hunt but with crazy hunting pressure and whacky weather the whole season was rough. |
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Post by longbeard2372 on Jun 17, 2020 11:30:35 GMT -5
I can only think he and his group are still counting. I'm sure his garage looked like a turkey processing center at some point. We wish Dave. We spent more hours in the woods combined this year then any and I was the only one to harvest a bird and that was with 2 hours left in the season. My brother and his son hunted every day but 3. My buddy and his son hunted every Wednesday through Saturday My wife and I hunted 2 Saturdays and a Monday together. I hunted the ENTIRE third week both mornings and evenings and memorial day and then the last day . All we totaled was one LB rolled and one longJake out of all that time. We hunt all private ground and called in and seen and ran off more trespassers then we ever imagined we could. |
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Post by ridgecommander on Jun 17, 2020 12:42:27 GMT -5
Thanks for the report. It appears to have been a tough season for a lot of folks.
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