Congrats to all involved in the youth hunt. Let's start with Period A and follow the season with Hunting reports, conditions, pics of birds killed. Good luck to everyone!
Turkey Hunting
2017 Bird Reports
4/18/17 @ 4:23 PM
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Started out the year well. Took a young girl and mother out with our shadows of the wolf youth and learn to hunt program. The young girl connected in the morning with two toms coming into decoys,.Than went looking for a bird for her mother. Ended up stalking within 80 yards of the bird, did a few calls and the Tom comes in to 18 yards. Moms bird on left, 24 lbs 10 inch beard, 1 inch spurs. Daughters bird 19 lbs, 10 inch beard, 1 inch Spurs. Can't figure the weight difference. Birds shot in same area. Had a fun weekend.
waupaca co:
hunted hard thurs. pm through yesterday, nothing thursday but wind and rain, friday was a very nice calm but cloudy morning had a gobbler behind blind about 80yds in shut up when he hit the ground, 7:30am i hear 2 gobbles out to right of my set i glass the field edge and see 2 toms running right at me, i get the gun up and poke it out the blind both toms are running around decoys bobbin and weaving next to each other i finally get a clear shot at ones head and pow! bird flops back i cycle another shell and look out as the bird runs at me then takes flight back into the swamp, wth! swing and a miss! really! go back and look for him but just hear him gobble on next property to the east, well that was dum! go set back up and hunt till 1pm I had 2 other toms come through but stayed out of range, they didnt like the tom decoy i guess. also saw 2 hens but not as many birds overall as I normally see. saturday out early heard one gobble and saw 2 hens hunted til 10:30am, went and set up at another spot saw and heard nothing, went in ate lunch set up at another spot sat in the cold wind til 6:30pm said screw this, walked down trail along big corn fields and i see 2 toms feeding my way set up fast just as i sit i hear leaves crunching here come 10 or so jakes/hens yelpin and cackling in thick cover they didnt like something and started cluckin and trottin off, ok! now im leavin head back out and still see 2 toms in field set up again and see a hen coming my way she gets about 10ft and starts purin cuttin yelpin the whole 9 was a very cool experience being that close and hearing all the different noises a turkey can make, toms never came. set back up at that spot sunday am in cold wind and mist and had a gobbler goin even after fly down gobblin my way and crossed behind me about 40yds but never came up over the ridge, set up trying to cut him off and saw or heard nothing, was a tough weekend and birds were really strange but i blew my chance so i cant complain to much onto C in zone 2 with a buddy hopefully he gets the job done. good huntin all and congrats to all who have shot one already!
Miserable weather for this second season here in SW WI, best two mornings I was not able to hunt. Got it done in the mist and high winds this morning. Birds still seem a little bunched up in some areas. Not going to bother this afternoon, hopefully next two nights we can get my 12 yr old daughter on a bird.
Good luck to everyone.
Edit: forgot pic. Nobody to snap the photo, but the strong tail wind helped out.
Taking my 3 and 4 year old in the morning. Everybody pray for me.
Havent been out yet this season but have seen some birds in a field across from my house.
Seem like they are roosting 3 40's back and working down the hay field to a manure spread corn field. I hope I can get the kids in the blind before the birds get up.
Last night the turkeys did everything to stay away from the decoys. So set them up a bit farther. 600 am today in heavy rain heard gobbling. 3 jakes come out and pounded the snot out of the tom decoy. Another 4 an hour later danced around the downed decoy. Seen atot as l of 25today.The strutting started early in the woods and had activity until the ice pellets started. I am glad we went. No long beards appeared near blind but jakes were within 15 ft looking for hens. Healthy big birds with 4 inch goatee. Seen a bedded albino deer too.
Late report from last weekend. Got this tom when 2 tom's came into my decoys, a jake and hen, about 9 am in zone 2 on Saturday April 22. There was not much gobbling before that and I heard a gobble behind me about a half hour earlier but I thought he was alone. I didn't call back and just sat silent. They came in silent and got 1 at about 30 yds. The other one came over and pecked at him and then jumped on him before I stepped out of the tree line. I had to go get him because a turkey vulture was circling overhead and looking for lunch. 18 lbs, 10" beard, and 1" spurs. It was a fun morning!
Hey Tim T
Hey were hunting here....but the weather is awful...and the activity isn't much better...they have lock beak...can't speak...but the one thing we are getting with no problem at all is wet...we are going out now for evening hunt...hopefully we can report good luck...take care and shoot straight to all hunters...this is my bird from last year and my buddy's in december
Wadu
Strange A Period this year. Saw fewer birds than most years. Saw jakes strutting for harems... not a tom in sight. Did manage to pull in 2 toms in Waupaca Co on Sunday for my buddy's son, but no harvest to report. He had a great time in any event and it was good to see him savoring every minute of the day.
Hunted this past Friday, Saturday and Sunday in Juneau county. Friday and Sunday there was little to no gobbling or action of any kind. Saturday the birds were going crazy. Our 2 young hunters in camp saw a total of 7 different toms and a number of hens. They each took a tom that morning.
Planted 250 various tress on two properties, got some other project completed and had a great deep fried turkey dinner Saturday night. A great weekend all the way around.
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