Don't know about you but I can hardly wait! I also have a longer wait than many of you. Here's to hoping for yet another good spring hatch and great spring season for all. I have both bows restrung so this year will be bows first.
Im late sending in for tags but just did it today. Im super excited as well. Turkey hunting is right up there with deer hunting for me. Gets me just as excited
I look forward to turkey season every Spring. It opens 4/15 here. I always start with a bow, don't always end with one though. I've been really craving getting an old smoothbore caplock muzzleloader to start using on them, but haven't came across one yet that's in good shape for the price.
Anxiously awaiting opening day here in NY. Spring Turkey season here is May 1 - May 31 and sun-up to noon. Taking the 1st week off of work to try and find those elusive toms traveling around the farm our neighbors'. Have seen flocks of 50+ roaming the other side of the field behind my house so I'm hoping some toms are mixed in among them.
I had a flock of 6 hens stop me on the road a half mile from our back line. They were eating the road salt. This has always been a good indicator of how all critters are doing this time of winter....they are struggling. The snow has been deep for weeks and starting Monday about to get 5-10 inches deeper. Good thing to a point, no hard pack, so predators arent just running over the surface. Though too deep this year for me to make the usual travel trails for any of us.. Just getting to the compost pile at garden has been tough. Many deer kill as well they are on the roads a lot for salt and to get out of the knee high snows.
MA and NY hunter here. Each yr at home in MA seems to get harder and harder to find birds to hunt. The population is definitely declining in western ma. I spent a month and a half looking pre season to find some birds to hunt. I finally did and hunted with a pal who didn't have time to scout because of work. We bowhunted out of the blind. He's a left handed shooter and I'm right. I agreed to let whomever side the bird came in on would shoot. Watch what happens.
Oh yes we looked for him for 3 days. Bottom line is my pal made a bad shot and we never recovered the turkey!
Well there are probably many veiws to that video. I'm thinking the second shot he was urged on to take was the bad one. That turkey was walking away on the first shot. Probably would have walked a distance and just layed down to bleed to death or stiffen up some. Getting too weak to take off as he did, should a second shot been needed. Just a thought.....
