Osage Roost
All Hunting => Fall Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: hawglips on November 11, 2013, 02:17:09 PM
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Got out into the fall woods for my annual hunt last Saturday. It was a mighty purty morning to be out. I hadn't been in there since Dec 2011 and hoped I'd stumble into some birds in this one area where I knew they liked to roost in past years. I got in there in the dark without busting any out of the trees, and so I just waited to see if I could hear anything come flydown time.
Sure enough, I started to hear some flydown racket off in the distance, and so I set off to get into the game. By the time I got there they were on the ground and I tried to call some over the hill to me. But they had their minds made up where they were heading and I spent the next couple hours trying to get them to come to me. I couldn't quite get them to come and I couldn't swing around in front of them and I couldn't get close enough to get a bust. But I was having a blast making all kinds of turkey noise back and forth with them. There wasn't 5 minutes went by without them talking back and forth to me. Got to love it when they are vocal on a still fall morning.
Finally, after getting wet crossing a creek, after they got to where they wanted to be, I got them to come check me out. It's a good thing it ended soon after the creek because I'd have been uncomfortable for the rest of the day in wet pants and socks.
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Congrats
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Congrats! Sounds like an interesting day! What kind of over/under are you using?
Denny
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Way to stay after em! Nice hunt! ;D
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Congrats. on a nice fall bird.
Jon
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Congrats on the fine fall hunt
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Congrats! Sounds like an interesting day! What kind of over/under are you using?
Denny
Denny, that's a 28 ga CZ Woodcock. It's become my favorite turkey gun the last couple years.
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Congrats to you, I fell on Friday and got a little wet myself crossing a small creek in the snow and freezing rain.
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Congrats Hal on a rewarding hunt!!
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Man Hal you're rough on those turkeys no matter the season. Congrats.
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WTG Hal nice turkey.
TRKYHTR
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That's getting it done!...Good goin Hal!