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Post by osprey on Feb 26, 2007 10:42:36 GMT -5
Anybody going out of state for birds this spring?
Pretty sure I'll be in Ohio for the first three days of their season. Pennsylvania begins that same week, may hit there on the way back, or may just stay in OH for the week if I've still got tags.
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Feb 26, 2007 20:55:47 GMT -5
I get a few vacations. So I try to space them out. One for in June(shark fishing, stingray bowfishing) One in July(Surf fishing bowfishing maybe) One in Nov(The rut!!!!) One in Dec(Christmas time) Although I will be driving to a few different counties to hunt some birds.
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Post by branson on Feb 26, 2007 23:42:15 GMT -5
I'm just excited that I can hunt as a resident in both MD and VA, and have places (public and private) to hunt both. In MD, I plan on hunting Eastern Shore and public land near Howard County. In VA, it's Gloucester county all the way. I cant wait!
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Post by mudduck on Feb 27, 2007 12:28:50 GMT -5
Yup, I am going on a turkey hunt in Tennessee at the end of March. Supposedly my friend has anywhere from 6 to 10 fully mature gobblers coming out into his field every evening. Hopefully I will get the chance to kill my first tom.
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Post by osprey on Feb 27, 2007 15:48:35 GMT -5
C'mon Hardcore, it's not really a vacation unless it's at least a month!!  Let's see how everybody does in the different areas this spring. I can't wait to get back to Ohio, been two years since I've been out there deer hunting, going to the same place (Zaleski State Forest/Wayne NF). Looking forward to scouting for deer in the afternoons, too, and camping and the $2 sausage/gravy over biscuits breakfast special at Lakeside Store. The bonus is their license year runs spring through fall, opposite of ours, so I'll have my license if I can make it back in October/November with my buddies to bowhunt before Dakotas. And oh yeah, the Rocky Boots outlet/factory is 15 minutes from the campground!!! |
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Post by osprey on Mar 30, 2007 7:07:40 GMT -5
I didn't realize how much I was looking forward to this trip until I rode to Hagerstown the other day and wanted to keep going west! I'm ready for TURK CAMP!!!
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Post by davep on Mar 30, 2007 16:35:52 GMT -5
Lot of my wife's people are from central Ohio, down into Kentucky.TONS of birds out that way.She's heading out in a few weeks.Shame I'll be working 60+ hour weeks.Last spring she said they woke her up every morning.
My goal is to get here a gobbler her this spring,with her Grandpa's 16 ga double (Sterlingworth, no less!)
She's pure death on big bucks.Let's she how she is on the birds!
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Mar 30, 2007 19:54:11 GMT -5
I have a cousin who turkey hunts up in Montgomery county, Poolsville. He's been inviting me for years but I have never went with him. If I don't bag a bird after the first week I might make the drive to go with him. He limits out the first week every year then calls in birds for his buddies. He got a tom with like seven beards last year!
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Post by nybuckstalker on Mar 31, 2007 17:11:28 GMT -5
I'm going to New York for four or five days early in there season. I have a lifetime license in NY so it is real cheap (Free!)
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Post by osprey on Apr 16, 2007 8:03:15 GMT -5
Oh, Oh, Oh!!! A week from today I'll be sitting on a hillside listening to turkeys gobble in the Ohio woods!!  |
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Post by nybuckstalker on Apr 16, 2007 13:42:22 GMT -5
Well, looks like I am canceling my NY trip:( I have some really good K-9 training that week. They told me I could miss it but I think it is too important. Plus, I will just get some extra days to hunt right here.
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Post by osprey on Apr 26, 2007 16:24:49 GMT -5
Ohio - It's Just Like Maryland! And not in a good way, as on opening morning there were cars/people everywhere.  NEVER saw so many people out there while bowhunting, I think the whole 30,000 acres had hunters on it. Total bust of a trip as far as turkey hunting, too. Watched over a big valley opening morning, calm and warm, could hear for miles. Could hear hunters owl hooting two ridges over. Never heard a gobble. Plenty of sign everywhere, and in the fall we always see tons of turkeys there, but not a peep or a feather. By noon Monday it was raining, forecast for T-storms and 35 mph wind gusts, plus several days of rain. Looked at the tent, sitting next to a big tall tree on the ridge top campground - thought it to be an overall bad combo so packed up my already wet gear and headed back. Was nice to roam the hills though, and found a few new deer spots for the fall. PLUS, their license year runs Feb-Feb, so I've got my license for the fall now. |
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Apr 26, 2007 20:28:50 GMT -5
That sucks Osprey. The season is young and most birds I have taken have been in the second and third week. So I'll just keep enjoying watching the sun come up if nothing else. My prediction is you'll get one next week!
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NEVER saw so many people out there while bowhunting, I think the whole 30,000 acres had hunters on it. Total bust of a trip as far as turkey hunting, too. Watched over a big valley opening morning, calm and warm, could hear for miles. Could hear hunters owl hooting two ridges over. Never heard a gobble. Plenty of sign everywhere, and in the fall we always see tons of turkeys there, but not a peep or a feather.