Spring Turkey Guide
Your guide to turkey guns, loads and chokes for spring 2010
How hunting a clunky, lumbering bird like the turkey can rival the hold-your-breath excitement of an elk hunt above timberline always amazes me. The most accomplished of big-game hunters is reduced to a quivering wreck when that tom shows up, strutting his stuff only yards away, just an errant finger flick away from gone. AdvertisementRelated PhotosSUBMIT YOUR PHOTOSADVERTISEMENTAdvertisement |
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Has ne one been hearing any birds sounding off in missouri yet? I went out last weekend and heard one...i imagine next weekend they will be gobblin their heads off!!!
i hunt bit 20 pound easterns out here in north central ohio. lots of great meat!
cant wait to show those gobblers what my benelli Super Black eagle will do to them yet again this year!! Gobblers goin down! cant wait
I can't wait for the Spring Season. I seen turkey all through deer season.
I'm shaking right now, thiking about Spring Turkey season!
There are few creatures more graceful than a turkey gobbler tricked out in his spring irridescence slipping down a hardwood ridge in the early spring foliage. "Clunky and lumbering" my asp.
Yea, I must have missed seeing the lumbering, clunking ones. The ones I see don't look big enough to eat you when you miss, but they can make you feel so small, then they would easily be able to pick you up and devour you like a little grub!
Good article.
I have to add another comment...I have been a bird watcher and photographer all my life. To me, hunting turkeys is like hunting dinosaurs....proof positive that birds descended from reptiles and dinosaurs. Watch a turkey walk....listen to a sandhill crane trumpet over the marsh...lsiten to a great blue heron croak as it lifts out of the marsh...no doubt about it, hunting turkeys is what our forefathers did 250,000 years ago...except, back then their prey could turn the table on them and eat 'em up if they made a mistake.
Ten years ago my wife bought me a Remington 11-87 in Mossy Oak camoflauge for a Christmas present (the next year it was a Ruger Silver Label)- I mount a 4x scope on it and have had great success with it. I have killed 7 toms in seven years with seven shots- I like the scope because of the aim point it provides....and, contrary to popular opinion, I hold the crosshairs on the tom's head and then, as I pull the trigger, raise it a tiny bit....no BBs in the breast meat, all 7 have been plucked and roasted whole- and, I know, one of these days I will miss one and kick myself in the butt, but, until then, I will do what I have been doing. I hold and shoot Remington's well- and it has only failed me once...a broken spring...in the thousands of rounds I have put through it.
This was an interesting review of some products that are available to turkey hunters in 2010.
Thanks for the good work.
Clark
Charlie, I will agree. I don't think they are talking about the Easterns we have in Oklahoma.
"a clunky, lumbering bird"???
Turkeys are called lots of names but clunky & lumbering isn't a description I think of.
What kind of turkeys are you hunting? LoL
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"a clunky, lumbering bird"???
Turkeys are called lots of names but clunky & lumbering isn't a description I think of.
What kind of turkeys are you hunting? LoL
Charlie, I will agree. I don't think they are talking about the Easterns we have in Oklahoma.
This was an interesting review of some products that are available to turkey hunters in 2010.
Thanks for the good work.
Clark
Yea, I must have missed seeing the lumbering, clunking ones. The ones I see don't look big enough to eat you when you miss, but they can make you feel so small, then they would easily be able to pick you up and devour you like a little grub!
Good article.
I can't wait for the Spring Season. I seen turkey all through deer season.
Ten years ago my wife bought me a Remington 11-87 in Mossy Oak camoflauge for a Christmas present (the next year it was a Ruger Silver Label)- I mount a 4x scope on it and have had great success with it. I have killed 7 toms in seven years with seven shots- I like the scope because of the aim point it provides....and, contrary to popular opinion, I hold the crosshairs on the tom's head and then, as I pull the trigger, raise it a tiny bit....no BBs in the breast meat, all 7 have been plucked and roasted whole- and, I know, one of these days I will miss one and kick myself in the butt, but, until then, I will do what I have been doing. I hold and shoot Remington's well- and it has only failed me once...a broken spring...in the thousands of rounds I have put through it.
I have to add another comment...I have been a bird watcher and photographer all my life. To me, hunting turkeys is like hunting dinosaurs....proof positive that birds descended from reptiles and dinosaurs. Watch a turkey walk....listen to a sandhill crane trumpet over the marsh...lsiten to a great blue heron croak as it lifts out of the marsh...no doubt about it, hunting turkeys is what our forefathers did 250,000 years ago...except, back then their prey could turn the table on them and eat 'em up if they made a mistake.
There are few creatures more graceful than a turkey gobbler tricked out in his spring irridescence slipping down a hardwood ridge in the early spring foliage. "Clunky and lumbering" my asp.
I'm shaking right now, thiking about Spring Turkey season!
cant wait to show those gobblers what my benelli Super Black eagle will do to them yet again this year!! Gobblers goin down! cant wait
i hunt bit 20 pound easterns out here in north central ohio. lots of great meat!
Has ne one been hearing any birds sounding off in missouri yet? I went out last weekend and heard one...i imagine next weekend they will be gobblin their heads off!!!
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