Getting to be turkey time

[Deleted member 40394]

I took off the first week!

 

[cpr0312]

That's exciting when you have lots of activity on camera! When is the first week for you?

 

[Deleted member 40394]

Starts 3/20. Ends 5/5.
Will be my 23rd season of hunting em.

 

[billc]

I am looking forward to turkey myself here in Pa. That is one nice gobbler you got on camera. Looking forward to seeing a picture on here when you get one down. Good luck

 

[Mr. 16 gauge]

been hunting them off and on for the past ten years......previously to starting my new job it was difficult to get the time off due to professional meetings. Last year I chose the third season (last couple of weeks in May)....I could get some hunting in without taking time off and I figured that most other people would want to have the first week off. It's state land near a major metropolitan city, and there are only 600 permits available. Long and short of it is that I did get out a few times, saw a lot of neat stuff (coyotes, deer up close .....like reach out and touch close....., snakes, etc) and TURKEYS!!! Had a hen lay down 3 feet in front of where I was sitting and take a nap, had a tom come in (but not offer a shot) and then a hen came by and led him off, and I finally tagged a jake in the last hour of the last day that I had to hunt. Drew a tag for the same time this year.......hope to be out scouting in a couple of weeks!!!

 

[BRICKBURN]

Good luck.

 

[Deleted member 40394]

Having to draw a tag to turkey hunt to me seems ludacris unless it’s public land. Glad down south most are not draws,etc.

 

[Deleted member 40394]

Thanks guys. Going to camp all week. Really rough it in a double wide hunt camp with central heat and air. Lol

Picking up some oysters and steak on Monday after work and heading to the hunt club until Saturday. My stuff has been packed for 3 weeks.

 

[ActionBob]

I hunted turkeys for the fist time last year. But I have a MN turkey and whitetail mecca in my back yard Well, numbers of whitetails anyway.... Neighborhood mentality seems to be if it's brown it's down

Must have about 100 living on my 160 acre place. They come right up to the deck on the house when we're not home

I was walking the 1.75 miles to the mailbox the other day and had about 70 flush like big quail out of some corn I left stand alongside the drive way, scared the heck out of me

We have a drawing for shotgun first two weeks (A&B), over the counter for C,D, and E, and if you did not get a bird, you can hunt F which is usually a few more days than the week the others are. Fall tag is over the counter and so is Archery for all seasons.

The thing that burns my ass with MN DNR is that if you are a landowner you can get preference for those first two weeks but must allow public hunting on your land, you can determine when enough is enough and limit it. With deer, you can get a bonus antlerless tag and must allow some others to hunt but at least you can pick and choose who you permit as long as you permit someone who asks.

I waited my whole life to acquire a nice property secluded from the rest of the World and covered with game and paid handsomely for it. So I do not participate in this turkey "deal". And I go to great lengths to see to it there is ample feed and cover available to overwinter these birds. We are no longer allowed to have feeding stations because of CWD concerns in the deer... so I plant and leave crops for them.

Damned liberals

 

[Tam Dl]

That's nothing, I own land and as a non-resident am not allowed to hunt it. It would be one thing if it contained gold encrusted rhinos or something, I can see having a resident preference for scarce species, though really only on public land or land they own, but it is just the usual deer and bear.

 

[Witold Krzyżanowski]

Welcome aboard.
Good luck.

 

[jeff]

Idaho has otc tags but all are at least 5 hours away from me , the closer hunts are draw. Have put in for the last 9 years with no luck but the results for this spring will be out any time so maybe this will be the year!

 

[Boyd Brooks]

Got a whole month to wait, April 25th is opening day. The reintroduction of the wild turkey in Ontario is one of the great achievements of hunters leading conservation initiatives!

 

[ActionBob]

 

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