wuchang
spiritual advisor and gatekeeper to the Spirit World
Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 5270
Loc: uphill
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Besides snow and temperatures being low.....
And
Greened up pretty quick here
but it is sloooooowwwww
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 9232
Loc: Russellville, Mo
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I haven't heard any early morning shots, but the people who normally hunt the bottoms across the road weren't there this year. Locals kids are older and have been hunting there though.
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fastman
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Reged: 01/01/06
Posts: 1933
Loc: missouri
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Pal got 1 opening morning on our land.
 mam had no such luck on the opener.
Plenty of birds around our land.
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"A man will heedlessly charge a cannon, but puke at the sight of 6 inches of steel." Jim Bowie
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sptsman
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Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 6211
Loc: Missouri
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Work has been brutally busy and the few chances I had to go were during nasty weather. I've chatted with a few guys that regularly bag 2 birds and both have been shut out so far. My guess is the combination of the crappy weather and poor hatches in recent years has kept the numbers down a bit. Most people are telling me the birds gobble 5-6 time and go silent, never to be seen or heard again...
Who knows... 
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"Hunts are best measured by the endurance of the memories they produce..."
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H2ODOG
the one who never tires
Reged: 12/22/05
Posts: 11010
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From start to finish it took 38 days to kill the Single Season World Slam of turkeys. Started in Florida on March 26th and finished it in Kansass May 2nd. I did have a lot of down time between trips, so it really took 14 days of hunting to get the birds killed. I shot a Grand Slam with my 28 gauge, using my handloaded TSS. That stuff is wicked to shoot. To date 11 birds have been killed in 14 days of hunting, so I have been hard on them this season in a short amount of time.
I do need to kill one more Eastern to complete a Double World Slam in one season. Should get that done this weekend. Hunted 3 days in Florida and I called in 4 birds to their death. Mexico was a slaughterhouse. We shot 10 Ocellated Turkeys between 5 of us, and 10 Gould's between 6 of us. Calling in the jungle Ocellated bird using an e-caller was different. Hunted 2 days and we killed 4 Merriams and 2 days of hunting killed 3 Rios. I needed only one day for an Eastern, but I guess things worked out better than others for an Eastern bird. I've seen more birds at my house this year than the previous 3-4 years, so I think the bird population is doing better than previously.
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67Firebird
Former political advocate
Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 9232
Loc: Russellville, Mo
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wuchang
spiritual advisor and gatekeeper to the Spirit World
Reged: 12/14/05
Posts: 5270
Loc: uphill
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Didn’t get out as much like I had planned
Had a gobbler going for about an hour and a half
He was on a ridge that was on property that I did not have permission to hunt
I was in the holler below it
I’d Yelp and cut and generally every trick I knew and he’d answer
Back and forth
I went silent hoping he’d come down
He kept gobbling and then gave up and went over the ridge
I hung out for another hour and a half hoping he’d remember and sneak in
Never saw him
Had to take care of business the next day
Got a phone call from the property owner telling me a tom was strutting with 4 hens on the plowed ground
Too little......too late
Will try to photograph one next week but I think I am rat forked LOL
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