I have recently been scouting for this coming turkey season and I must say Im excited. On my last trip I found a couple of merriam toms not to far from my place. The reason Im so excited is that i never have seen merriams at my elevation they are usually higher up. Im already drooling at the thought of his nice big tail fan next to my rio grande fan in my room.
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 12:25 PM
Nice find! Have you found where they roost?
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 01:21 PM
Yep! I found where they roost! Now I hope the weather isnt to bad, if the weather gets to bad they start moving roosts.
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 01:40 PM
Excellent. That is nearly half the battle. Good luck and let us know how it goes.
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 02:04 PM
I can not seem to be able to figure out how to post o picture of last years turkey?
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 02:19 PM
last years bird 9 and a half inch beard with a bow in calaveras county
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 02:22 PM
Nice!! You know you've accomplished something if you can take a long beard with a bow.
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 02:26 PM
thanks for the help with the pic posting small block fuelie
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 02:28 PM
You bet! What bow were you shooting? Broadheads?
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 05:24 PM
That's a nice bird. I wish I had a picture of the one I got with my air rifle. Yes, it's legal to use an air rifle if it's .20 cal or bigger. Only took me 5 minutes of hunting too. And no, I didn't shoot one around my house either. 
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 10:26 PM
Only took me 5 minutes of hunting too. And no, I didn't shoot one around my house either.
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Posted 19 March 2006 - 10:31 PM
It was his NEIGHBORS house !And no, I didn't shoot one around my house either.
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Posted 20 March 2006 - 08:51 AM
No, it was actually a construction site in a different county. Okay, a friend was having a house built.It was his NEIGHBORS house !
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Posted 20 March 2006 - 01:33 PM
what is a merriam I dont know much about them.
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Posted 20 March 2006 - 08:35 PM
I started shooting a pse fitzgerald that I bought on ebay about 2 years ago. I liked bowhunting so much I bought the mathews switchback. The switchback is an awesome bow,I used gold tip arrows with 100 grain muzzy broadheads to take this turkey.
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Posted 22 March 2006 - 05:15 PM
Well I went back to check on the merriams and of course they were not on the same roost. I knew the rain was gonna push them around a bit. Here comes the scoutin again, gotta love it though!!!!!!!!!!
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Posted 22 March 2006 - 06:38 PM
Yea, I've had that happen to me before, too. Know where they are traveling during the day?
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Posted 23 March 2006 - 06:56 PM
I don't know exactly where there they go. It's gonna be hard to find them cause they were on a ridge that breaks off into three more ridges, and its on a big mountain with alot of big clumps of tree's. I'm not sayin' I am not going to go look for 'em though,I never give up.
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