Turkey Hunting
PODCAST: The Midway Gobbler
It has taken quite a while for me to get this podcast together. The wind was brutal this morning, the first Monday of 2015 Kentucky Spring Gobbler. This was the day SuperCore and I got matching bookend gobs about a half hour apart. Mine was roosted with hens over by Lazy Boy, where #3 son Angus likes to deer hunt. I had arrived in between thunderstorms at first light. I holed up at Midway, my luxury box deer blind, expecting more rain. I had brought along a Toby Benoit Rebel Yell box call. It is by far the loudest in … More . . .
Report from Turkey Camp — The Action so Far
If there really are “ON” and “OFF” kind of days for turkeys. Saturday, Sunday and Monday of the Opener here in the Trans-Bluegrass were definitely “ON.” Angus had a shot on Saturday as did I, Angus scored on Sunday. SuperCore and I scored on Monday. Ever the rain returned on Monday morning, the gobblers have been turned “OFF” in the extreme sense. However, I am getting ahead of myself. It is best to pick up the story after Angus bagged his jake. Sunday On Sunday, after Angus bagged his jake, it got hot and muggy. I drove Angus back to … More . . .
Report from Turkey Camp — Angus Scores
Turkey Season 2015 is under way. Saturday was The Opener. I went to the Honey Hole. Angus went to the rock pile up on top of Gobbler’s Knob. SuperCore went to his usual place at the Jagende Hutte overlooking Dead Skunk Hollow. Flydown Saturday was somewhat subdued. I had expecte better, being that it was so warm. The turkeys hopped off their perches, crawled in a hole and pulled in the lid. Angus had better luck. He had a gobbler come in close. He worked him for a while and finally got a shot, but it was at an odd … More . . .
The Final Countdown to Turkey Camp, 2015
By the time you read this it will be T-minus 15 hours and counting to the Turkey Opener. SuperCore called. He’s bringing  breakfast sandwiches, and the Scotch, and a bucket of fried dead chicken from the side of the road. I hugged Angus this morning and told him I’d sprung for his license and tags, and wished him a happy 17th birthday. I then went downstairs to put a bevel on the ends of a half dozen strikers. I’ll be leaving work tonight, dropping by the house to pick up shotguns and Angus and Lily the Love Hound and … More . . .
Getting Ready for Turkey Season
I have been so busy with the podcasts that I have not had a good chance to sit down and discuss all the other things going on in the Shamanic Dream Team’s run up to The Opener. Angus’ New Shotgun I was at an auction back in February and got a very nice Remington 870 Express at well under market value.  The auctioneer commented to everyone that the look on my face was priceless.  I had bid on it at the last minute; I had wanted a Mossberg 500, but this came first on the list, and I did not … More . . .
PODCAST: Yute Season 2015
This is my first Yute Season in many years where I did not have a yute to bring with me. Angus is now too old, and grandaughteer #1, Mooselette, just turned 3. She and I have been hunting turkeys in the backyard when she comes to visits. It must be genetic. So here it is Easter Morning (Happy Easter everyone!) and it is just me out there. I usually take young’uns up to Gobbler’s Knob, because there is almost a guaranteed floor show. This morning was no exception. Podcast — The Midway Gobbler 2015 … More . . .
PODCAST: Getting Thoughtful at the Thoughtful Spot
I probably would have stayed back in town this weekend, but the temperature was cold enough that I thought I might freeze the pipes at Turkey Camp if I was not there. Indeed, the temperature was 17F and still falling when I went out armed with the recorder and my trusted mug of coffee. I was met at the back door with a hearty gobble coming from the Hundred Acre Wood . Lately, I have had this theory about turkeys, about hunting pressure, and a better way to look at how we interact with turkeys. A lot of folks think … More . . .
PODCAST: Three Jakes at the Honey Hole
Just under a month separates me from The Spring Opener. This was my first trip out to the Honey Hole. It seemed like I’d just gotten up and left last week, even though it had almost been a year. I was formulating a spiel about what to do when faced with complete silence when several gobblers and some hens turned on just at the bottom of Heartbreak Ridge. They kicked up enough of a fuss that three jakes came over from Left Leg Creek and walked right in on me. It was a lot of until the wind got stronger … More . . .
PODCAST: Fog at Faulty Towers
This was our first weekend back at Turkey Camp. It had been a harsh winter, but the cabin was in one piece, and the deer and turkey both seemed as though they had not suffered too much.  A week ago there had been a foot of snow on the ground. Now it was still a bit soupy, and there was a lot of fog in the mornings, but nothing to keep the turkeys from getting cranked up. I made it out just in time to Faulty Towers to catch some gobblers and hens. Listen carefully. You can hear the rolls … More . . .
Shaman, where do you hunt turkeys?
I have one property . It’s my farm, and the only folks that are allowed to hunt it are my sons and my old boss, SuperCore. What I’ve learned there in 13 seasons is that generally there are only a few days a season where any group of turkeys are willing to be called. The rest of the time, you can sit back and read a book. However, on those days where they want to be called, they will come to nearly anything. On my 200 acres, I have three or sometimes four independent groups. I won’t call them flocks, … More . . .
Are long distance shots a good thing?
From Old Gobbler.com deerbasshunter3 Are long distance shots a good thing, or a bad thing for turkey hunting? « on: February 18, 2015, 08:42:58 PM » I know on another forum that I am on for deer hunting there are some people who mention taking longer shots at deer with their bow (Long being past 30-40 yards.). While doing some research to try to get better at turkey hunting, I have noticed talk of 60-70+ yard shots. Now, I know enough to know that, in the past, 30 or so was the max on a turkey. Since then, shotguns, chokes, … More . . .
PODCAST: Wake-up Call
etter late than never, here is the best of about 40 hours of recording. This is not like my other podcasts, because it is just raw turkey sounds with no commentary, no banjo music. The original recordings were from mid-April on a morning where all heck broke loose at the Honey Hole. I had several gobblers come in on me, but I could never get the cross-hairs on them. I selected the source tracks, because they were particularly clean and mixed it so it would be perfect wake-up music.
More . . .Turkey Camp 2014 — Post Mortem
You only need to look at Angus’ face in those pictures from a couple of weeks ago to see this season was not a failure. Still, after hunting 11 of the first 14 days of KY Spring Gobbler Season and 16 of the total 22-days, I have to say I feel beaten. I ran into another turkey hunter at the diner in Berlin on the last Saturday of season. He was seated with two other guys, and they were all looking glum. His story was similar to everyone else I had met. He had manage to bag a bird, but … More . . .
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