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This years turkeys

Started by ShooterJohn , Oct 19 2005 09:53 AM

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#1 ShooterJohn

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 09:53 AM

This is a small group of some of this years turkeys that live around me. They are into the pecking order game now. They have several sparring matches a day in the yard out back. Posted Image

Watch out I'm a Kung Fu Master!

Oh Yeah! Look out I'm scary.

There are twenty-three in this group that strolls thru daily. Sorry I couldn't fit them all in the picture, just the ones sparring. They sure grow quickly. Seems they were chicks just a few months back.

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#2 ShooterJohn

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 11:24 AM

They look like they're having so much fun. "Wee look at me!" I'm Grasshopper, Kung Fu Master!

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#3 Thumper Dunker

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Posted 19 October 2005 - 08:59 PM

neat. I was working by San Andreas a few weeks back and they was all over the place.

You can hop but you can't hide. Yahi Bowmen. Its not how far you can shoot but how close to the game you get when you shoot. Sights we don't need any sights. Why waist time reloading when I can be making arrows.

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Posted 20 October 2005 - 10:03 AM

Here's a shot this morning of one of my long beards.

They are really quite beautiful with the sun reflecting off of their feathers. B)Here's once struting his stuff for the ladies earlier this year. They sure are colorful and the blond one passed on her color to a couple this years young ones too.

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Posted 26 October 2005 - 06:09 AM

Pow! Pellet gun to the head... Like you, we also had zillions of wild turkeys roaming around the house, stopping traffic on the roads, and wandering up and down our long loop driveway. I know that "real" wild turkeys are not quite that easy to find, but still, the experience kinda turned me off to turkey hunting.

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#6 ShooterJohn

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Posted 26 October 2005 - 08:05 AM

I have to agree. It's harder to shoot them seeing how they are. I know they get smart quickly, but the first time I hunted them with a pellet gun I got one in under 30 minutes. No, it wasn't one of my local birds either.

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Posted 26 October 2005 - 10:49 AM

Ever consider setting up a decoy and watching it get beat up?

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Posted 26 October 2005 - 11:25 AM

No, I send my neighbor's kid out for that. For some reason they don't like him and chase him. They're fast and he isn't. He threatened to shoot them. Posted Image

I threatened him with the law. Posted Image

They went after one of my roosters once but he's too fast for them and apparently got in a couple of good licks himself. They're buddies now. Posted Image

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Posted 26 October 2005 - 01:28 PM

Send me out next time!

Okay!

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Posted 29 October 2005 - 03:05 PM

A couple more of my yard ornaments. Posted Image

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#11 Shoot-it

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Posted 17 March 2006 - 10:29 PM

The dairyfarm that i hunted last deer season in orland has so many wild turkeys on it.I never seen so many they arent even that scared i walked up on a few with my 270 got close like 30 yards from them they just looked at me DUH.Well i dont have a desire too drive 4 hours too hunt them i never tryed I dont know might be fun to call one in.......when does the spring turkey season start?

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#12 Guest_coyoteslayer_*

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Posted 18 March 2006 - 12:44 AM

I seen a group of about 12 today on the AFB (beale) up by the base housing. I see them sometimes when I'm out chasing those yotes on Spenceville. All I ever have is my rifle but I do see people packing them out every once in awhile.

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#13 Cranky Farmer

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Posted 18 March 2006 - 09:41 AM

Pretty cool to have them in your yard like that.

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#14 ShooterJohn

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Posted 18 March 2006 - 10:58 AM

Yep, I had one nest under the oak tree in my front yard. It's funny though, when it's hunting season you don't see many or they don't let you get close. :lol: