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Confessions of an ex turkey killer
#3898343
04/19/23 11:06 AM
04/19/23 11:06 AM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,234 Lamar
Fishduck
OP
8 point
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OP
8 point
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,234
Lamar
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I will admit to an addiction. The sound of a goblble rocks me to my core. The days when they are so close that you can feel it in your chest are a total adrenaline rush. I chase that with a passion that has been costly both monetarily and in personal relationships.
Here is my confession: I cannot kill a turkey this year. My last poor year was 2018 and I killed 2 that year. Since then I normally kill a limit and when I don't, it is because I called in multiple birds that others killed. This year nothing. The turkeys no longer respond like years past. Gobbling has been minimal. Timber is being cut next door to my 2 best spots. Found footprints on my lease. Dogs have run off several gobblers I was working.
Fried turkey excuses are the only thing being served at the dinner table. The only dented primer was a coyote that thought turkey dinner was on the menu.
I have gone through my normal routine that has been proven. Changed calls, tempo, called very aggressively, called one cluck and one 3 note yelp in a 3 hour period. Have rustled enough leaves to fill a landfill. Have snuck in close in the dark. Backed way off. Moved and stayed still. Have hunted hard.
I am posting this public confession and admitting that all my prior success was simply luck. My arrogance is gone and this act of public contrition is affirmation of that. Let the Lord lift this turkey drought and let me once again fuel my addiction.
Last edited by Fishduck; 04/19/23 12:46 PM.
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Re: Confessions of an ex turkey killer
[Re: Fishduck]
#3898387
04/19/23 12:21 PM
04/19/23 12:21 PM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 6,909 shelby county
buzzard
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 6,909
shelby county
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I have felt the same this year. Crazy how one day it can be so easy, then reality kicks you in the nads and you wonder how you could ever kill one.
"Hell with them fellows, buzzard got to eat same as a worm" Josey Wales
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Re: Confessions of an ex turkey killer
[Re: Fishduck]
#3898440
04/19/23 02:13 PM
04/19/23 02:13 PM
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Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 11,309 Earth
TDog93
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Booner
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Earth
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^^^
That sucs spec
Some of u guys sound like spots worse than mine
I learned this a long time ago on what i am about to say - you got to hav turkeys to kill them
Many - but not all of the last 20 years my spots hav sucked and really accelerated in sucking the past 4 years. I hav killed 3 this year and had good hunt w a buddy on his place once and he ended up killing. Other than those hunts - i worked a bird once (gobble 6 time - answer me twice - had hen - and that one of my top hunts 😆).. those are not good odds when work one 25% of time. I just counted the days i hav hunted this year - 20 - So i hav worked a bird 25% of the time. Not very good - but it was worse the prior 2 years. I hav been highly successful when given opportunity this year (very lucky) but the opportunities are few and far between. Aint worked one since the 11th - hope i aint on another stretch where i hunt 20-21 hunts straight and not hear a bird like each of the last 2 years n bama (thats 40 plus hunts w 0 gobble). Dont care what anybody says - thats brutal 🤣🤣
Blessed to b able to still go.
No gobbling r not working one get frustrating
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Confessions of an ex turkey killer
[Re: Fishduck]
#3898444
04/19/23 02:20 PM
04/19/23 02:20 PM
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Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 11,309 Earth
TDog93
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Hear is something funny - to me anyway
I hav heard guys on hear say - 1 heard 4 this morning. I cant help but think - dang - u one short of all the birds i hav heard all season 🤣🤣🤣
I use to hav spots like that n bama in late 90s and early 2000s - lot of quick killing of birds too 😀
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: Confessions of an ex turkey killer
[Re: Fishduck]
#3898515
04/19/23 05:08 PM
04/19/23 05:08 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,105 Birmingham, AL
Wade
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 3,105
Birmingham, AL
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We have all had those years. Fortunately, when I have set up on a good gobbling bird they have died this year. But, I am having a hard time setting up on birds this year.
I had a terrible year about 7-8 years ago. Nothing could go right and I even missed a bird that year. It was so bad I was coming back from Mobile to B'ham and decided to stop by the cemetery in Camden just to ask Mr. Kelly's buddy for some help from the other side. I finally did manage one bird that year but I would have tried anything that would not cost me my religion to get that monkey off my back that year. Whew...
Don't give up, don't ever give up!
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Re: Confessions of an ex turkey killer
[Re: Fishduck]
#3898537
04/19/23 05:56 PM
04/19/23 05:56 PM
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Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,186 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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I will admit to an addiction. The sound of a goblble rocks me to my core. The days when they are so close that you can feel it in your chest are a total adrenaline rush. I chase that with a passion that has been costly both monetarily and in personal relationships.
Here is my confession: I cannot kill a turkey this year. My last poor year was 2018 and I killed 2 that year. Since then I normally kill a limit and when I don't, it is because I called in multiple birds that others killed. This year nothing. The turkeys no longer respond like years past. Gobbling has been minimal. Timber is being cut next door to my 2 best spots. Found footprints on my lease. Dogs have run off several gobblers I was working.
Fried turkey excuses are the only thing being served at the dinner table. The only dented primer was a coyote that thought turkey dinner was on the menu.
I have gone through my normal routine that has been proven. Changed calls, tempo, called very aggressively, called one cluck and one 3 note yelp in a 3 hour period. Have rustled enough leaves to fill a landfill. Have snuck in close in the dark. Backed way off. Moved and stayed still. Have hunted hard.
I am posting this public confession and admitting that all my prior success was simply luck. My arrogance is gone and this act of public contrition is affirmation of that. Let the Lord lift this turkey drought and let me once again fuel my addiction. Because of this confession, I now declare your Jinx to be broken. You may go kill a turkey tomorrow.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Confessions of an ex turkey killer
[Re: Fishduck]
#3898601
04/19/23 07:52 PM
04/19/23 07:52 PM
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Joined: Jan 2012
Posts: 9,909 North Jackson
ridgestalker
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Posts: 9,909
North Jackson
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About wrapped my shotgun around tree this morning.Trying to get birds in front of my daughter and 78 yr old dad on public land is torture. I get one day a week to hunt solo and I know I shouldn’t be complaining. Spooked 3 rd bird in a row in shotgun range this morning without a shot fired.
"The Heavens declare the glory of God;and the firmament sheweth his handiwork" Pslam 19:1
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Re: Confessions of an ex turkey killer
[Re: Fishduck]
#3898628
04/19/23 08:35 PM
04/19/23 08:35 PM
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Joined: Jan 2008
Posts: 2,258 Tuscaloosa
rackhunter'
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Posts: 2,258
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It’ll be like that. One year I killed 7 in a season ( not all in Bama) Thought I had it all figured out. The next year I hunted hard as ever and got skunked.
The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind
I love animals...they're delicious
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