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I'm personally a very poor turkey hunter...but I LOVE the spring woods. Everything is alive (including the ticks unfortunately), and I love the sounds, sights and smells of a spring wood bursting with life.

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I can identify with that. I was on a hot roll for a few years where I thought I might actually be getting good at it, but I got schooled. the advantage of being bad at it is the extra time it takes to fill the tags.

Tonight is the last of last year's bird (paprika, cream sauce with mushrooms and wild rice). So I'm heavily dependent on getting one soon. Yes, there is pressure, a good pressure. smile


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Opening day in GA. My son John and his buddy Travis both scored nice long-beards to open the 2018 season. Seems like all the grasshoppers have surpassed the "master" now.

Me, I remembered everything but my hearing aids this morning. Never heard a gobble, but without my ear-bobs I wouldn't hear one in the tree over my head.

As you can see from the picture below it was a beautiful morning.
Cold enough to keep the skeeters away and the sunrise through the pines was spectacular. You notice cool stuff like that when you forget your blooming ear-bobs and don't know whether a bird is answering your best calling efforts or not!...Geo






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Awesome photos! what do you suppose those birds might weigh? Early season birds are usually pretty heavy.


Here, it was (and still is) snowing horizontally.


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Every big turkey I ever weighed, weighed 18 pounds. Well, one fell in a pond and soaked up some water; he weighed 22. Plus he was wearing a band...Geo

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smile They are so different in different parts of the country.

I've shot 17# jakes here and 27# toms. But it doesn't matter. I just love the birds strutting into range.


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It's a shame to weigh a turkey. From the turkey's point of view, it's bad enough to kill him, but why deprive him of gaining weight in the future when you re-tell the tale of the hunt? John is a turkey slayer for sure. Gil

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I don't know, I weigh fish, I use a tape measure to weigh my deer. I've weighed tens of thousands of mice. Why not weigh a bird? I think it is instructive to see that a mature tom weighs in different parts of the country.

anyway, I love the story and the photo and I wish like hell it was turkey season here. We have another 3+ weeks to go. And there will be 5" of heavy, wet snow (I keep typing snot, I wonder why?) on the ground by sunset.


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