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Re: How’d you get your start?
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#3080125
03/25/20 08:11 PM
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 10,588 Central, Al
Bustinbeards
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 10,588
Central, Al
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30ish. No mentor or friends who hunted turkeys so all my learning was by error and more error. Lol I still learn something every time I step into the woods to hunt them. I killed one my first season and have steadily grown to love turkey hunting more than deer. My job doesn’t allow me a ton of time to chase them but I try every chance I get. Good luck on your journey, if it bites you spring time will never be the same.
Originally Posted By: Wiley Coyote Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here. On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
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Re: How’d you get your start?
[Re: gcr0003]
#3080185
03/25/20 08:30 PM
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 7,913
sj22
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 7,913
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I started just to see what all the fuss was about, took me 2 years to get one but I learned a lot by making stupid decisions. After that first one I was hooked!
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Re: How’d you get your start?
[Re: gcr0003]
#3080229
03/25/20 08:48 PM
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Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 3,615 Spanish Fort
TurkeyJoe
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 3,615
Spanish Fort
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Was in my early 20s. Killed my first turkey in the Old River Swamp WMA in south Mississippi with one of my good friends
Micah 6:8
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Re: How’d you get your start?
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#3080352
03/25/20 10:41 PM
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Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967 Opelika, AL
AU_trout_bum
8 point
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8 point
Joined: Oct 2013
Posts: 1,967
Opelika, AL
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Started about a decade ago right out of college with my then girlfriend's dad. I hunted 4 years without a bird. Not because he didn't put me on them, but because I kept screwing up opportunities. After that first one, it's been game on ever since!
Author, Fly Fishing for Redeye Bass: An Adventure Across Southern Waters JacksonKayak Fishing Team --------------------------------------------------- "I do not hunt turkeys because I want to, I hunt them because I have to." - Tom Kelly
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Re: How’d you get your start?
[Re: Clark8907]
#3080358
03/25/20 10:49 PM
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Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 7,978 South of 20/North of 10
North40R
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 7,978
South of 20/North of 10
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I was 8 and my teacher and her husband took me. Been after them ever since. I still ain't near as good as north40r You can put the pom poms up for now son! I ain't even close to tagged out!
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Re: How’d you get your start?
[Re: gcr0003]
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03/25/20 10:52 PM
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Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 16,825 Banana Republic
jb20
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 16,825
Banana Republic
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I went once or twice in high school just not many birds around on my families land...i killed 1st when i was 30 or 31 a few miles from me I'm 35 now...i saw 1st turkey around my house 4 years ago and I've lived close by my whole life except 5 years...so far my total is 2 birds...deer is much different story i hope the turkeys can grow here and I might change my mind on favorite game but for now deer rules
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin
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Re: How’d you get your start?
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03/25/20 10:54 PM
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Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 15,347 Ourtown, AL
BCLC
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 15,347
Ourtown, AL
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Grew up in the country with an old 20ga shotgun and plenty of land to hunt. Didn’t take long to make 2+2=4. We were blessed spoiled back then from the early-80’s thru mid-2000’s with ridiculous #’s of turkeys. Over the last 10-15yrs there has been a serious decline in population but that just makes the chase more rewarding when everything goes right.
We’re not dead. We just smell that way. Dayum. - AC870
Yessir! I’m always gonna shoot what makes me happy and I want everyone else to do the same! If you shoot one be proud of it and don’t worry what anyone else thinks. - SJ22
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Re: How’d you get your start?
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03/25/20 11:34 PM
03/25/20 11:34 PM
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Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 23,919 Clarksville, TN /Greenville, ...
bill
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jan 2005
Posts: 23,919
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I took my uncle and cousin on a lease I had in Wayne County TN when it was absolutely covered in turkeys. I let them shoot all the ones they called up and never lifted my gun even when I had an easy opportunity to double with my uncle. I just didn't get it because there were so many birds it just seemed too easy. Fast forward 5 or 6 years and I went with my brother on a place we had permission on in Alabama. . I'd been practicing with a mouth call all off season and decided I was going to give it another try. We heard a few birds but most were too far off the property but I struck one about 7:30 in a deep creek bottom that I thought we could get to. We walked down in the bottom and he answered me several times but I told my brother he was on the other side of a big creek. I started cutting hard at him and I heard wings flap and we dove for cover. He came in on a full run from about 150 yards and stopped at 50 yards and was gobbling his head off. I was shooting a 20 gauge and needed him to come 10 more yards but he got nervous when he couldn't see a hen and skirted us by using a blow down for cover and walked by us at 15 yards gobbling as he left. I looked at my brother and told him I was hunting every damn day until i killed one. I was mad at em like nothing else and I finally killed one on the last hunt that year. I've loved it ever since.
"Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles" - Bauvard
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Re: How’d you get your start?
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03/26/20 06:25 AM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 16,495 Guntersville
AC870
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Nov 2014
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Guntersville
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We saw a few deer hunting when I was a kid and that got me interested. Started reading everything I could get my hands on about them. We hunted my dad’s family farm in Virginia every Thanksgiving. They had a pretty long fall season in those days. And first one I ever killed was in the fall. Few years later, AMB and I started getting after them pretty good and I got my first spring bird on his family’s farm in Brewton. Places have come and gone but I still go a little every year. It’s a tad difficult when there aren’t many turkeys where you live. I haven’t kilt one in a hot minute. Maybe this year.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands: “The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: How’d you get your start?
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03/26/20 06:45 AM
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Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 7,529 Boaz,AL
CarbonClimber1
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 7,529
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My daddy an grandaddy were turkey hunters. My older brother and daddy started takin me when i was 5 or 6. I started shootin atem when i was bout 9...i missed probly 5 or 6 before i finally killed one when i was about 14. It was a jake, i killed my first longbeard when i was 19....an i been wakinem ever since. I have learned alot since i started...but the hardest thing for me was actually killin the turkey...i went through some dark times..but i finally partially finished my turkey education and am refining my craft.
"I dont quit.. And ill fight alone if i have to"
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Re: How’d you get your start?
[Re: gcr0003]
#3080455
03/26/20 06:50 AM
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Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 6,054 AL
BamaGuitarDude
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Feb 2015
Posts: 6,054
AL
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my brother got me started in the 90’s - was late 20’s when i killed my first one
my dad was a dove/quail hunter - but he had a friend in the heating & cooling business that was eat up with turkey hunting & he taught me a lot
Last edited by BamaGuitarDude; 03/26/20 07:07 AM.
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A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
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