LFTTW - 3/26

At the gate again. 2:32am arrival this morning, and we’re the first truck here! Should give me plenty of time to work the crawfish from last night out of my system. 10° warmer this morning and supposed to be a high of 93° today! Hopefully we can get it done early. Came really close yesterday and know where a few are living. If we can keep people from mowing their lawns and riding bikes down WMA roads we should be in the chips. Good luck everyone.

Just got my camo on and started a pot of coffee. Not sure if they’ll do anything here this morning or not, supposed to have off and on thunderstorms all day.

Headed that way good luck fellas

Me and my brother in law about to walk in, good luck today!

Watching the lighting show off to the North. Clear skies here but very windy.

At a tree on edge of hayfield where I saw a strutter yesterday. We’ll see if he’s here today.

Standing in the driveway listening. Only hear my rooster so far 😁

One across the road is talking

Got atleast 4 gobbling kinda close and several more in the distance

Heard 1 so far. Sounds like he's in the next county

Had two trees get struck by lightning within 100yds of us followed by golfball sized hail. I believe I’ll call it a morning

I just got in the woods it is wet and muddy

Woke up and checked the radar. My hunting area was gettin pounded. Went back to sleep

Same as above

Same but couldn't sleep. Drove to my southern most lease to get away from the rain. Used to be my best spot but birds are scarce now but there are a few still around. Stepped out of the truck and almost onto a copperhead. A 2" piece of EMT will take a snakes head clean off. Good luck out there.

Had 3 different birds gobble a few times right at daylight. One was within 150yds of me. All 3 were not far across the property line. All quiet since 0630hrs. Hoping to get one to come to this power line. Heard a shot off in the distance about 20mins ago.

All these went quiet when they flew down.

Ain’t heard a turkey since deer season.

Heard him. Didn’t gobble til after 630. Saw him but he skirted me wide a went to next county. Lotsa lotsa wind. Saw a pretty good buck with 1 side missing. Went to another spot but all quiet.

Great Job Hopper!!
The weather saved a bunch of gobblers this weekend I suspect!!

Workin this am…killed yesterday am. Living vicariously through y’all!

I wanted to go BAD, but the radar just looked terrible at my place.

Not a sound in the sw corner

Been a slow start this morning, got a client from Stewart a bird yesterday evening after he’d had missed yesterday morning. Bout to hit the river to see if I can strike one out of this wind

Went home and cooked some pancakes and conecuh for the girls, it’s finally slacking up here and time to go back out for round two

Had 2 gobble on the roost. Nothing in over 3.5 hours.

Came to my dads and found two more still gobbling. To bad I can't get close to them

Got on a bird at fly down but he hung up, making a move on him struck another bird so started after him only to get busted. Sitting there cussing myself for getting busted and here comes a consolation prize, coyote walked right up to a load of TSS. Sitting there talking to a buddy about killing the coyote and hear the 1st bird gobbling so grabbed my stuff and went to him but get there and it’s 4 long beards showing out. Set up and they come in but skirt around me in some thick stuff and cross property line and a guy over there killed one. Went over and talked to him, congratulated him on a fine bird and he showed me where he was sitting and it was one helluva shot. We talked turkeys for about 20 minutes and parted ways. I worked my way back to the truck and jumped some deer. Had a great morning, watched the sun come up, heard and seen some long beards and subtracted 1 from the coyote population. Man I love spring time.

We had one working our way, probably got 75-100yds out, and the whole thing got busted up by a passing coyote. Didn't get to shoot him either, dangit!

Finally got it done. It took over 2 hours of moving forward and backing up with one sideways movement thrown in but I finally got him across the swamp. I've tried several times to get birds to cross that swamp but he's the only one that's ever done it for me.

Congrats!

Killed my first turkey this morning! 10” beard and 1” spurs. This has been 3 seasons in the making since I’ve started turkey hunting and I did the whole hunt by myself and have never felt more accomplished with something in my life!

Congrats dB and deer slayer

Congrats!!! It’s a very special feeling and it’s like a bad drug that take hold of you!! I just wish we had the turkeys like we did 10 yrs ago here.

Congratulations!

Congrats to the killers!

Deer slayer I’ll never forget my first…never been that fired up in my life… it gets to be an insatiable crave that I wish you had stopped while you were ahead lol

Congrats

Congratulations DS33. You never forget your first.

Thanks for the comments! Yes I’m already excited for next weekend so I can get out there and try and get another. Felt good to finally get it off my back after so many close encounters!

Congrats guys

Congrats fella’s

Had a perfect morning hunt after getting my tail whipped yesterday by this bird. I pinned him down yesterday afternoon and he was right where I left him. Storms quit about 6:15 and we walked on in. He was hammering at the thunder. He did what you’d expect a 2 year old to do and was dead by 7:15. I’ve had a tough few years with the turkeys, so it felt great to get one under the belt.

Congrats on the kills today guys.

Happy for all the killas!! Hope to join the club soon!

Congrats to y’all fellas! You’ll never forget your first bird