Gobbler Nation

Hey, Jim. Nice to see you back on! Good luck with your hunt! Pro tip: Roll the window down before you get to the tree he's roosted in. The noise can spook them. And, of course, have the gun loaded! Closing the action will get their attention every time! 🤣🤣🤣 Mike, Thanks so much, good to hear from y...

Thank you, that's kind of what I was thinking. This is private land, harvested fields and forested parcels next to cow pastures.

If there is access for a vehicle to get to the hunting ground, How close is too close before disturbing roosting Birds?

If I don't have to walk five miles I'm not going to!

I know plenty of people around here that have shot their tag limit. I also know a bunch who have not even heard their first one. I mean 8 gobblers within a few hundred yards all on the roost. Tell me that shouldn't be a noisy and productive field!

Thanks Mike... I have one more day to give it, then on to Uruguay for doves and the last weekend of the season is the first offshore tournament of the year...Defending our last year's title...Tuna, Wahoo and Mahi oh my!

As I explained to my non-hunting spouse...A gobbler's job is to get his butt up at the crack of dawn and get onto his job of pro-creating...Stat! This weekend; at the appropriate time I heard 2 different Toms gobbling away. I did my best to get them to come and see me, I still have a lot to learn......

Dtrkyman wrote: ↑March 24th, 2022, 11:05 am Most public land does not allow cutting vegetation, of course you can stack up dead limbs and such but cutting things is generally illegal.

Now that does make sense, and maybe that is what my buddy was talking about.

Per a conversation with DNR...

Yes you can use clipping and branches and whatever to make a natural screen.
What I didn't know is that hunting turkey from a raised deer stand is allowed. Don't know why, but I thought that was illegal.

I just got off the phone with a very pleasant DNR employee. Any property with an operating feed is considered off limits...as mentioned there is a 10 day waiting period before it can be hunted... a follow up question about using a neighboring property really did not get a definitive answer. I have a...

I have left phone messages @ SCDNR...as suggested e-mail might be best.

I owe mr. Razor an small apology...His response I referenced was on my question about "building a blind"

spider316 wrote: ↑March 22nd, 2022, 7:05 pm Call your local DNR OFC, no other questions to ask

I will be doing that...thanks!

Call your local DNR OFC, no other questions to ask Great minds… Actually I read your previous post that has since disappeared...though a little uppity, you were right...read the rules... and I did...they specifically state and define what is to be considered bait...but they do not define "Area...

That's exactly what I was thinking...

I had a turkey conversation today with a buddy...Opening day here in our part of SC...He mentioned that he used blinds and had for many years. Ok, fine. I mentioned that I carry a good set of pruning shears and I make my own "natural screen".

He said...That's illegal! What? Is it?

In South Carolina how far away from a deer feeder does one need to be so to not be considered hunting over bait? Got a buddy with about 80 acres woods and fields. His primary use for the property is for Deer. He has about 5 feeders spread through out the 80 acres. As far as I know he is still puttin...

South Carolina
10 Day hunting; $75
Turkey Tags: $100

Personally I like to see a company's mailing address somewhere on their website, especially if most folks had never heard of them, and the webpage seems to have been created in 2020.

I was just sent blurry video...I think I counted 12 little blurs

I had the same surgery 23 years ago, complete dis-attachment. I went back to light duty 3 weeks later still wearing a cast. After the cast was removed and I was wearing the moon-boot I went out into the field, concrete sales, driving myself around; oh BTW it was my right leg. When the Doc told me it...

Twodogs wrote: ↑April 9th, 2021, 6:30 pm

PawleysJim wrote: ↑April 9th, 2021, 6:06 pm Love my A400 Xplor.

I want one. Do you have an optic on it?

I do, bought the Beretta carrier for it and put a scope for my old eyes...

Love my A400 Xplor.

Currently I am hunting mostly fields, natural and cultivated. This weekend I am hunting with a buddy who is very experienced, I'm going just watch and do as I am told...

Decoy Safety: "Like the use of a gobbler call, decoys are effective...but can put the user at potential risk. Obviously, if a decoy can fool a sharp-eyed gobbler, it can fool another hunter. More than one decoy has drawn fire from an intruder into the decoy user’s hunting area. Hunters should ...

935 wrote: ↑April 6th, 2021, 4:23 pm I'm not sure what a Fugly chicken is. But a hen and a Jake works for me.

Sorry, It was mentioned by some one in an earlier thread; the Flextone Funky Chicken Turkey Jake Decoy, someone named Slim Jim. I just called it Fug.and it scared the guano out of the hen.

Not so long ago...It was suggested that I not use decoys, especially early season, especially not as a newbie, others said there were times for using a decoy. So this past weekend, I got set up, and I did use the Fugly chicken (as apposed to Slim Jim) and mid morning a hen flew down, landed 20' from...