About to head out. Listened yesterday and heard a few. Hope they are close where they were and not too many folks at club

Wish it wasn’t so breezy

Headed out with a buddy to see if one will talk to us on this windy opening morning. Good luck fellas

gale force winds here 🤦🏻‍♂️💩

Windy in Macon County! Headed out in about 20 minutes. Going to be tough to hear a gobble this morning. Good luck to all!

Just poked my head out of the camper at the club. Dang at the wind. Imma gonna head out in 5 I got a good 20-25 min ride on the ranger and then another 20 min walk. Good luck y’all.

The wind woke me up several times last night. Will give it a try for a couple hours before work.

My son is up and wants to go listen, so here we go.

Gonna be a rough one this morning fellas with this wind, good luck!

I do see an early breakfast and nap coming on if we don’t hear anything.

About to head towards the club good luck fellas

Damn wind is howling in S Alabama this morning.

Good luck today . Thank God for blessing me with another opening morning.

I’m sick. Had it coming out both ends yesterday something awful. I’m really weak this morning, can’t stand up for any length of time. Still going though.

Checking in
You guy be safe this morning and kill a big’un

Good luck it’s going to be hard to hear one today

Naw I got all month. I love it but not in this wind.

Wind rocked the camper all night and has gotten worse. Going to let Coleman sleep then head home when he wakes up. They’re not going to talk in this crap and we’re more likely to bump them than anything else. Gonna try them later this week.

Present in Autauga Co. Don’t know for how long in this wind. Opening day gentlemen, let’s go!!!!

Sitting at my listening spot here in shelby county

Taking hole week off - hav no clue where one at - tried to roost yesterday w no luck - one heck of a crappie morning here - need a miracle in this gale force wind and tomorrow is going to suck worse w flooding 🤣🤣

Typical 😀

But blessed to see another opener! Good luck guys

Wish I'd of just went to work, oh well guess I'll go pick a sack of morels

Swing and a miss at 6:40. Impatient, Impatient, Impatient

Ive heard 1 crow. Deer are not sure on where to go. Have had 2 blowing, one I know for sure at me. Had 3 come running thru about 100 yards away. I haven't even heard any Twitty birds

Saw a couple deer and thought I heard one way off. Sounded like Rick Flair was trying to hoot one up on the neighboring place

Wind was terrible this morning. I was able to get up wind of one this morning alittle before 7am before he smelled me, though.

Going to work. This is awful.

Yep. I’m throwing in towel too. Try again Thursday

Welp pretty sure I bumped the only bird I heard gobble

Wind was terrible even before daylight. Couldn't hear a thing

Gone at 7:01. God sure created a beautiful bird

I knocked an Osceola down yesterday morning. Felt like the heaviest Osceola I’ve killed. Didn’t have a scale but had to of been over 18lbs. 10.5 beard 1.25 razor sharp spurs. Buddy and I doubled the old 3,2,1 shoot way. First time I have ever done that!

Did yall not know it was gonna be windy this morning?

Killed at 7:45. Only 1 gobble from him on the limb. Came strutting in to 40yards.

Got a good one at 6:44am. 21.35 lbs, 10" beard. 1" spurs. Never made a sound but strutted right to me. Unusual to get one by himself this early in season

How do you put multi beards in the nwtf calculator?

Add up the total beard length and double the total

So if he had 17.3125 total I would put 34.625? Just want to do it right.

Same here. Should’ve waited

Good luck to everyone. It's windy as hell in shelby county. I'll likely let this rain come through tonight and hit the ground tomorrow or Wednesday.

One and Dunn around 0830

The one im wanting played ball this morning. Just happens im over 300mi away. Maybe saturday.

Yep! Add that to the weight and the spur x10

Looks like he’s got a jake fan and a harem of hens

Managed to get one to gobble once and was close enough to hear him. I never would've gotten him without that gobble.i don't remember ever killing one on a more difficult morning. Blessed to live to see another turkey season!

Might not be him. Theres three up there i would like to kill. I cant imagine any of them allowing a jake with a harem of hens

Congrats killers - not a peep heard - would hav to b right on him to hear him today - crappie morning

Yea - thats a jake w 4 hens JW

#1 dead at 6:50 am this morning!!!

Like PCP said: that wind was tough!!!

I got really lucky with this one!!!

I wanted to drive all the way down the mountain this morning to try and get out of the wind…I snuck in to my listening spot, which is a tree row along a small branch that’s between two hay fields (like a miniature SMZ)…I hadn't heard a gobble at all and I noticed a deer in the hay field about 6:30. I realized it was a good buck that still had both antlers!! I was watching him and still listening for gobbles as the buck neared my downwind side. I knew he was going to smell me, but I was hopeful he wouldn’t blow, stomp, and cause a scene. He caught a whiff of me about 3 minutes later, but just eased out of there like he’d came from. As I was watching the deer ease off in the binoculars, I caught a glimpse of a black object in the hay field about 30 yards from the buck. It was a gobbler and he was going into strut about 150 yards from me!! I eased to the ground and was able to crawl over to an embankment that I could lay down behind. I watched the gobbler for a minute as I got my gun and everything ready. He was as calm as he could be and still strutting!! I gave him a few light yelps and he craned his head up from 150 yards away. I waited about 30 seconds and gave another set of soft yelps and he gobbled. His head instantly turned bright white and I knew he was getting revved up!! I called to him one more sequence about 6-8 minutes later since he hadn’t moved and he answered me again. He continued strutting in the same place for 2-3 more minutes and then I could hear walking in the leaves coming from my right (90° degrees and 100 yards towards me from the gobbler). I saw the bird coming into the hay field and could tell it was a hen. She eased right down the tree row towards me and the gobbler began marching across the field in full strut. The hen walked within 20 yards of me along the tree row and the gobbler had made it to 75 yards by this time. He got to this point and seemed to lose interest in the live hen, but was still interested in my calling. It took him another 5 minutes or so to make it up to 45 yards. I let the TSS do its thing as the gobbler was craning his head and looking hard.

I have no idea how he didn't see me standing in the road that runs through the tree row at daylight...I also have no idea where he flew down from!!

It was just one of those moments that was meant to be!! Thank you, Lord, for another turkey season!!!!!

Measurements from today blessing
20lbs 7 ozs. Double beard 10 13/16, and 6 1/2. Hooks 1 1/8 each.

He played the game.. but I won. Got a few hrs drive home but I’ll come back and edit the story in here

Great birds
Congrats to all

Awful morning weather-wise. Not a peep. Congrats to y’all that smashed one!

The Tetras paid for themselves on my very first hunt with them. Heard him walking or I’d have never known he was there. Clucked at him one time and he came straight to me. Triple beards 9.5, 6.5, & 5.25. 20.5 pounds and 3/4 spurs.

Congrats to all the killers!

Congrats fellas!

Took little man on his first turkey venture, he’s too little and too loud but he’s been worrying me to death about going so we went! Had a blast and he did pretty good. Managed to see a lone hen, could have been a Jake but it was too far to shoot at and he didn’t like that part😂😂😂. Hope he stays interested in it

March 25, 2024 will be a day that I never forget.

12 years ago I originally wanted a yellow female lab and I went to make my pick from the litter. I made my pick but this black male just kept pulling at me. I told my wife that I really wanted to bring him home, also. Fast forward a few weeks. I get the call to come pick up my yellow lab. I told my wife that if she doesn’t come with me to make sure I only get one, the black male will be at the house, also, when she gets home. My wife did everything she could to keep me from getting that dog, except coming with me. She had to go to work.

Smoke became her favorite dog, ever.

Today at 9:23 we put him down.

By 12:45 I was tired of sitting and staring off after burying him, so I talked myself and my wife into going to sit on a green field just to do something to get our mind off Smoke. I made some loud yelps on a box and some on one of Stoney’s Fatal Attraxion glass pots. Gave it 20 minutes, got louder and more aggressive, cuts and yelps. 7 minutes later 2 two yr olds come walking in, looking for the hens. I’m thinking there’s no way this is going to work out. Sure enough, they work in to range. I tell my wife, when he stretches out his head , get the dot on it and squeeze….I’ll get the one on the right. Well, it worked out! On the day we buried our favorite dog, my wife and I doubled up on decent 2 yr olds. It was her first bird.

Like I said….March 25, 2024 will be a day I never forget…. The rock sits over Smoke’s grave…..

Good dogs are most definitely family members and I hate that for you!!! Congrats to y’all on the turkeys!!! Great memory

Struck one up around 10:20,dead by 10:33,3 year old,gobbled 8-10 times and came right on in,had 3 hens with him too

Heck of a story CkyleC

Hate to hear that, but pretty cool ending to the day.

Congrats to all the killers

Congrats guys. Even a windy day cant keep you killers from those dominant gobblers. 😄

Me and a Buddy started at daylight. Heard the first gobble at 10:25am.

Doubled up at 11:35. One of them had extra whiskers

Called one in for my 76 yr old dad today and he smoked it. The best day of my life. Wish I knew how to post pics

Congrats! We got some sho nuff turkey killers on here BUT if I had to pick one out of all them on here to be the best, it would be you, sir. I believe you could kill one in above the the artic circle!

Awesome.

I concur! Congrats PCP

I’ll 3rd that! Congrats Mr Steve

Love seeing that and brings back a bunch of memories from when my son was a youngster. Make it fun and you'll have a hunting buddy for life!

I’ll Send you a pm with my number.

Posting for sandmtnslayer

Sandmtnslayer, that’s awesome sir!

Congratulations to all the killers son-in-law killed a good bird when I cleaned it there was mostly corn in the craw. Three water oak acorns and just a little greens. We have corn still standing in plots

That makes me happy

Well done

Thats awesome sandmtnslayer - great pic

Thats a AWESOME pic. Pops is a killer!!!

Congrats to all the killers today, well done!!!

Indeed it is !!

That pic is frame worthy

Awesome to all. Keep the pictures flowing all season.

Congratulations to all the killas.

I had a continuance of youth weekend when My son decided he was going too.

He was tired and sounded like Herman Munster stomping around behind me. I was glad for the wind.

We didn’t hear a thing but the wind.

He was a trooper though, we put on some miles and had fun until he got hungry.

Congratulations, man what a day!

Sure is! Congrats to all of you! I tried really hard to call in a gobbler for my dad his last couple of seasons, and failed every time.

Man that’s awesome