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Post by branson on May 17, 2007 10:28:39 GMT -5
Just wondering if anyone else has given up on turkeys or if I'm the only one. This has been the most frustrating season, heck year, as far as hunting goes for me. I've heard my share of gobbles and worked a couple birds, but just haven't connected. I haven't even seen gobblers, just hens. At this point it'll be all VA hunting and I dont even know if I feel like it. I mean, I had plans for this to be my "breakout" year. I've only been out a few times because time's at a premium. I haven't been able to scout at all. I experienced the same thing during deer season, but just missed my opportunity (Note: always check your scope). It's just frustrating and I'm sick of it. To make it worse, I watched a 6-7lb bass spit the hook and swim away while I attempted to land it...
-- B
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on May 17, 2007 10:48:25 GMT -5
NEVER GIVE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I haven't been out in about a week & a half & I'm going to try tomorrow. Hopefully the gobblers are on my side!
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Post by BIG FOX on May 17, 2007 11:25:11 GMT -5
well the gobblers might not be on your side but i hear a JARHEAD will be....
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Post by Huntin'Fever on May 17, 2007 12:19:56 GMT -5
I've been out 4 times this year and haven't gotten the elusive turkey yet. I've giving it another try this Saturday. Hopefully it'll be my day.
Keep the hope alive.....Fever'
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Post by busco on May 17, 2007 12:26:02 GMT -5
Like Hardcore says the quickest way to fail is to stop trying.. dont give up a dry spell only makes gettin one even sweeter
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Post by BIG FOX on May 17, 2007 12:32:29 GMT -5
I have had a 15 year dry spell and i am still going after turkeys, been hunting here in MD for 15 + years now...... Never even got to pull my gun up on a turkey, but one os these days a blind deaf and dumb turkey will cross my path and the dry spell will end.. or at least that is what i am hoping for..  |
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Post by branson on May 17, 2007 13:18:55 GMT -5
I had such big plans for this turkey season though. School just takes up so much time. I think what's really pushing me to end my efforts for the season was my mindset. I was focusing too much on killing a bird, which is not what the sport's about. If I can't just appreciate having the woods wake up around me, why am I even out there? I realized this Saturday morning with my devoted girlfriend dressed in camo and sitting beside me. She was dog tired from waking up at 4 in the morning to hunt with me, itching from mosquitoes and worried about ticks, when a fox walked within a few yards of us without knowing we were there. She loved that. Mind you, Friday a pair of foxes barked at me for a few minutes for going through their territory and I didn't think anything of it. That just kinda put me in my place. It really is all about being in the woods, not killing butterballs (although seeing them sure doesn't hurt). I realize what I was doing wrong, and it's been fixed (the fox was pretty neat, and thinking back that pair was even cooler). Who knows? I may even make it out Saturday.
End rambling,
B
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Post by nybuckstalker on May 17, 2007 14:40:58 GMT -5
I made my last call on Tuesday. I had an OK year, I heard gobbles every morning I hunted but like you Branson, just couldn't get anything going. I called in two Jakes opening day for my dad and I and am glad that we each shot one but the Toms were tough in the state hood this year! I hunt day after day if possible just to validate all of the unsuccessful hunts. I hunted every hour I could (approx 48) and if I able, I would hunt even more but Car Cruise is in OC. I'm swamped! Good luck to all the last few days!
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Post by davep on May 17, 2007 16:50:45 GMT -5
NEVER give up!
A buddy's Dad has been after the same bird ALL season.
Now this guy hunts almost everyday,and uually has tagged both birds within a week,sometimes the first 2 days!
I've NEVER known him to not get at least one bird.
Yesterday he connected.Bird had hens with it for the first 2 1/2 weeks, then has been outmanuevering him since.
Yesterday he yelped,and it gobbled. But as it has done this everyday,then flown directly away, he quickly snuck around to the opposite side of where it was roosted. It flew down, 180 degress from where he WAS.But now he IS!
BOOM!
HEEHEE!
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Post by osprey on May 17, 2007 20:06:27 GMT -5
I can say I've had a good season just because of the birds I've called in for a couple kids, helping my little buddy Logan get his first bird was worth all the turkeyless, silent, FOX cursed days that have plagued me on my hunts the rest of the season. It's been a long time since I have had such a bad spring hunt myself, and I've gone tons of days, but they just haven't been gobbling anywhere I've been, at least where I could hunt them. My place is dried up this year, just no birds on it (we got 15" of rain last early June and never have seen many birds since then, I think it just destroyed nesting efforts in our area and I don't get many birds unless there is overflow from around me). All my buddies are having terrible years too, though, so it's not just me and I can at least take some solace. But I'm not giving up, going on Saturday, maybe for a bit Monday - and Wednesday for the last day I'm planniing on sitting until the bitter noon end. Branson, I understand what you're talking about, I get like that at least once a year during bow season. Just have to realize it, reassess, sometimes even take a short break. But I always come to the conclusion that's not as bad a problem as having to go to work every day instead...  |
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on May 18, 2007 8:14:36 GMT -5
Jarhead & I were out this morning & heard a gobble, but he never showed up. It was around 6:30. We didn't hear any in the roost, so we went to a small field & set up on the edge, hoping one would come by, but he never did.
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Post by BIG FOX on May 18, 2007 13:13:13 GMT -5
Boo Woo poor Osprey and his turkeyless year.. I have had a turkeyless life so quit blaming me.... |
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Post by davep on May 18, 2007 16:08:06 GMT -5
Boo Woo poor Osprey and his turkeyless year.. I have had a turkeyless life so quit blaming me.... You owe me a new keyboard. I just blew Coke out my nose! |
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Post by Hardcorehunter on May 18, 2007 19:28:58 GMT -5
I go go through the same feelings every deer season. Get pumped up before the season, then comes the rut then I realize the season didn't go the way I planned. I get a little bummed out, then I remember that this is hunting. Sure its nice to get an animal every hunt or every year, but if it were that easy everyone would hunt. If you miss the time spent in nature, and trying to go back to our primitive desire to hunt. If you dwell on the not killing part, you miss everything else like seeing a fox walk by and the sunrise and the birds sing and the squirrels play and....well you get the drift. This site was helpful to me last year in the fact that it was a place to vent frustation and know that your not alone. I had wrote off getting a turkey this year, even choose to sleep in a few mornings rather than hunt. But I'll now try a few more times before wednesday. Its ALL part of the hunt, the good, bad, and the ugly.
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