My Wisconsin trip was good, had a couple close encounters, i didn't end up filling my tag though. My buddy filled his the first morning, he should have been in the contest.. would have been an awesome bird! 10 1/2 beard, 1 3/8 inch spurs, 26.5 lbs
I entered my bird, don't think I'll get out again this season. It has been another good season for although I took 2 birds with a shotgun this year rather than stick with my bow. Good news, we are sitting in 2nd place lol!
I've got 2 more weekends to see if I can find a bigger bird. The jakes were like cockroaches this year in the mandarin orchard. Every time we'd shoot a couple, it seemed like four more would come around the corner. Between me and the 5 other guys hunting out there, we've taken 10 jakes. And I just checked my camera today and there were 4 more out there on saturday. That makes 14 jakes I've seen this year! Kinda makes it hard for 3 toms to hang around with all those youngsters chasing them. I'll see what I can do though. Best of luck to everyone else still out there!
I finally got out yesterday morning and had several birds around. I got two to commit to come and at 60 yards a doe that was right behind the blind busted me and bolted. That ended the hunt.
Saw 20 this morning, 8 jakes, 3 toms and 8-9 hens. Had a tom start to come in but he hung up at 80 yards.
Well gents down to the last weekend of turkey season so maybe something will happen but not getting my hopes up. Still a few birds around but they are really hit and miss when they show up. I'll be out this weekend cause I can't kill anything from my couch so send me a hail mary for something! Hope everyone else is doing well!
Turkeys win this year, had my chance just blew it. Sorry gents. Good luck to those still hunting Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
I took my father in law and a buddy of his yesterday morning. His buddy is 75 and has never killed a gobbler. By 6:30 AM he was wrapping a tag on a gobbler. Three of us sat in a blind and I called in a silent bird to our three hen decoys and he shot him with a shotgun at about 20 yards. They were thrilled. I hope to get out for a while in the morning and again on Sunday if all goes well.
Last weekend ended with another jake off the property. 4 jakes came in about 8am. They were VERY hesitant to walk in front of my blind and took them about 10 minutes to move 30 yards where I was able to get a shot. Maybe because 9 others never made it back to the tree this year! Haha! Not sure if was luck or because no one's hunted there in about 2 1/2 weeks but it worked out. Little more meat in the freezer for the summer. All in all me and 3 other hunters took 10 jakes off the property this year so pretty successful season. There were 3 toms out there that never showed their face after opening morning and at least 3 jakes still running around. I haven't seen a hen in almost a month so hopefully they are all laying and will have some little ones running around for next year. Hope everyone else is having a good season. Deer season is just around the corner!!!
Well, we didn't win, but we didn't come in last! Congrats to all who took a bird, and to those who did not, hope you still had a good season chasing birds. It has been fun and I'm glad we got to interact with each other, now onto deer preparations!
