The old turkey men were wise when they said yelp three times and shut up.

Great pics gents, I am jealous. A couple more weeks of waiting here

Outstanding work gentlemen! Congrats to all.
I went yesterday morning but didn’t take a gun. Mainly went to listen. Our birds are acting funny, gobbling, but want nothing to do with our calling. They have their harems and ain’t taking applications for another companion, lol. They’re acting like it’s still real early, even though I watched a hen leave the group, assuming she was going to her nest.
I think it’ll be another week or two before they get right. By right I mean strutting straight in to the call and trying to beat another gobbler to you. It’s also means those hens get real vocal and want to argue with you. I want the full theatrical production before I pull the trigger, lol!

Way to go SW. I like the bike pic. Our opens this Saturday and there's a possibility I am going to Ky.in 3 weeks.

Congrats Swampwolf! Persistence pays off, hats off to ya going after them with a bad cold.

Few more weeks here, I’m excited. Seeing plenty of birds , they just gotta cooperate

Im working from home today and stepped outside to check on our new batch of meat birds. Heard a hen in the field next to us and then started hearing gobbles back towards where I killed the other one. Went inside to get my wife and girls in case they wanted to hear the gobbles. He probably gobbled a half dozen times while I was out there. I threw a few calls out so he may head this way, but he'll be safe from me this go around.

Congrats fellas.

You Old Farts can jump in a truck next month and head north. Like WAY north.

ClayCreech smoked his 2nd gobbler this morning...a fine double-bearded specimen!!!

Clay didn’t waste any time! Great looking bird too! Congrats!!

Rain all day tomorrow…….I really wanted to close the deal today. I just buy a 3 day tag.
Missouri’s youth season starts Saturday and I’ve got a grandson chomping at the bit to go. Need to get home and get some scouting done.
Love hunting down here in South Georgia. Love chasing them in these river bottom swamps. Not many pines, live oaks, and Spanish moss in Missouri!
Not many gators and cottonmouths either lol
1022 miles to home tomorrow!

Safe travels man and again, Way to git’r done!!!

Well my son got his bird yesterday afternoon. He said he’d walked and called about everywhere birds “should be” but hadn’t seen or heard a thing. The last text I got said he was heading back to the creek where he heard a bird a Sunday evening. He said he was about to cross the creek from North to South and put his pot call away and decided to hit the trumpet. He said immediately 2 birds gobbled at him from the North about 300yds out. He said by the time he jumped in cover and hit the trumpet again he could see them running his way. The birds would run, stop and strut, then gobble and take off again. He said he doesn’t know how they heard the trumpet in that wind but they didn’t stop again until they were almost too close, lol. From the time of his last text until I got a FaceTime call, was 12 minutes.
It’s amazing how you can go from an hour or two of zero, to a few minutes of maximum adrenaline.

Nice bird! It does happen QUICKLY sometimes.

WB,
Just got back home from sighting in the thermal on the AR 223. Went quick and easy...out to 100yds. Had to heat up a small screw head on target backstop to have a small aim point.

I'm just about familiar with the buttons and control features....been working them aroumd the yard past couple nights.

Gonna head upstate in a day or 2 to kill my 2nd gobbler and powder burn some hogs.

Well done

I figured this picture would be coming! Well done, Clay

SWEET!!! Learn where that record button is and don’t forget to press it, lol! I shot I don’t know how many hogs and critters before I started remembering to hit the record button! I’d get caught up in sneaking in and just forget about it. Now I just turn it on and edit the videos after loading them to my phone.
Can’t wait to watch some videos and read some stories!!

Looks like Georgia is the place to be!

I have been seeing a few birds around. We have had some very warm weather in the past couple weeks and the birds have been on the move. Back down in the 30's today and for the next few days, youth season this Saturday.

Crazy enough, I have a hen laying eggs in my front field right now. I have seen her the last few days when I get home from work in the same spot, only see her head sticking up

Sure enough, after closer inspection she is already coming to drop an egg each day. I knew they were already breeding hens, but for this ole girl to be dropping eggs she had to have been bred in early March.

She isn't incubating yet, I hope this cold weather doesn't kill the eggs she has already laid

I have seen poults on opening day here before.

Down here at the Florida line breeding starts in February.

Well, took my next to the youngest son this evening and we covered a lot of ground and finally struck a bird. We were right next to a drain so I set him about 10yds away and I was off to his right and slightly behind him.
The bird hit the first yelp after finding our hides and I knew it was coming.
Whenever anyone hunts with me, I make them use my gun unless I know for a fact they have patterned their gun and loads.
I’ll take the blame on this bird only because I didn’t range anything after telling him where to sit. This bird came in strutting and gobbling and stayed anywhere from 45yds initially to 35yds. I videoed and throughout the video I saying shoot him, kill him, shoot, shoot the bird!!!
The wind was howling, but to his direction, lol!! We watched this bird for probably 15-20mins until a hen crossed the wet drain between and and went straight to that gobbler!
After the bird moved off, I eased where my son was and asked how close he wanted them because for burnt pines that’s about as good as it gets.
He swore that bird was 60-70yds until I handed his my rangefinder, lol. But, I’d rather him not take the shot because he thought it was too far, rather than trying to stretch one out and possibly wounding a bird. No matter the outcome, it was a GREAT hunt!! We got the full show in HD and stereo!!
We’ll give it another go tomorrow morning.