The Spur Stringers....Turkey Team #16


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I drove by the private land I usually hunt yesturday. The field that me and my dad have killed our only 3 birds in, is planted in wheat this year. Usually it's just an overgrown mustard field, until it gets plowed. The wheat is gonna make it a little different, hopefully I'll still get a bird out of it though. We saw a group of 5 birds(at least one jake but mostly hens) a group of 3 birds, which I believe were all gobblers, a single hen, and a single tom. The last single tom was a big ol boy, and at least one of the others was pretty nice as well. So I guess I'll end up hunting that property again this year, just hopefully theres not any other guys running all over it at the same time as me.

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Farm Field Jake in the entry thread, plus the story and pics

I've entered my jake in the contest entry thread (click here to see the entry).

I posted the story of the hunt, "Farm Field Jake", to the turkey forum. Click here to read it and see photos including one of the sneaky snake that just about got me...unfortunately for him, shotgun pellets are faster than copperheads!

Here's the first one, me with him where he fell:

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Thanks, Jorden.

How's everyone else doing? Hope you're all getting time out in the woods and fields to go after 'em.

I'm making plans for this coming weekend, the final weekend of our OK turkey season (season ends May 6th). Looks like I'll be headed to western OK with family for camping, fishing, and Rio Grande hunting. I'll let you know how that turns out.

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Good luck, Jorden! Lay a big one low!

As for me, my season ended last Wednesday. I hunted the last four days in western OK for Rios. I had a couple of close encounters including a big old double bearded tom strutting down a road right towards me, then veering off to the left at eighty yards to join some hens. No shots were fired, unfortunately.

I'd sum up this year as wet, wet, *WET* and cold. At least here in Oklahoma, we've had just about nonstop rain and it's been about twenty degrees below normal temperature-wise. I've hunted on 18 different days and it rained/misted/fogged/thunderstormed on all but 1 of them! I don't know if it's been weather or what but the gobbling activity has been way off and it seems like most birds have been very call shy this spring.

I consider myself lucky to have gotten the jake I posted a while back. Hope the weather is better for everyone still after them!

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