Let the TURKEY games begin!

[KyFlintlock]

Tomorrow is the opener for Ky. I am only gonna get to hunt 1/2 day tomorrow but it is supposed to be nice.

Good luck to everyone that will be in the woods.
Wess

 

[Slamfire]

Good luck, I've managed three days in the two weeks our season has been open. It rained the other days. :cry:

 

[Slowpoke]

Good Luck !!

I have a short trip planned this weekend. I'm flying out of BWI today at 1pm arrive GSP at 3:10. My brother is picking me up and hopefully I'll be sitting in the woods by 4:30.

I learned my lesson last time... I showed up to the airport in full camo. Trust me... you don't want to do that. Especially in clothes that still have BP residue on them.

SP

 

[bob1961]

I learned my lesson last time... I showed up to the airport in full camo. Trust me... you don't want to do that. Especially in clothes that still have BP residue on them.

whats wrong with that :crackup: ..................bob

 

[The Baron]

Good luck in the turkey woods! Just FYI - I love photos and stories about turkey hunting. :thumbsup:

 

Good Luck !!

I learned my lesson last time... I showed up to the airport in full camo. Trust me... you don't want to do that. Especially in clothes that still have BP residue on them.

SP

:crackup: :crackup: :crackup:

My wife tenses up every time we go to the airport and they start swabbing luggage, shoes, clothing....

"Oh god, did that have powder in it? You didn't forget and leave bullets in your pocket again? Oh @#$%!!! Are you STILL wearing your neck knife, you nitwit?!?!?!?!"

That poor woman...

Anyway, Gobbler season starts Monday for me here in Michigan...I've got a good story though; makes me hopeful:

Me, Eagle Wing, and Skullskinner were down in Illinois for a rondy recently and arrived too late to set up camp, so, it being a pleasant night, we laid our woolies down on the ground and slept neath the stars with which the night sky was littered; near too many to let us sleep.

After watching a few shooting stars, listening to the coyotes sing and a hoot owl making his presence known, I finally quit fighting sleep. I rose in the morning just as the first bit of grey was starting in the East and had my first pipe of the morning, a blend known locally as "Merde du Beouf Sauvage" made by Plumebleu.

As I smoked in the cool dawn, I heard several gobblers off across a gully. I finished my pipe, tapped it out against my moccasin, then began chirping on it. The results were instantaneous...three gobblers started calling right away. Within 10 minutes they were closing in, and three more had joined the party, coming in from the north and south! The child was in hunter's heaven, my friends! I had at least 5 for sure moving in, and that was just calling with my clay pipe, sitting on a wagon tongue in my primmies!

I simply can't wait for next week. Instead of camo I'll be dressed in my dullest colored primmies and wearing black and red striped war paint on me face to disguise me paleness! I'm thinking I'll use a slate, though, since I started wearing out and making some funny noises on that pipe, but it sure worked in a pinch!

:thumbsup:

 

[Slowpoke]

I got to the[url] airport..in[/url] camo.. and it dawned on me that I might be in trouble. I walked over to a security guard and told him that I was just getting back from the woods and I had some concerns. He picked up his radio and made a call and within 30 second 2 plain clothed and 1 uniform officer show up and direct me to an office where I had to explain my situation 2-3 times and finally take off all my camo.... use your imagination.
Then they x-rayed and did there chemical test on all my clothes. I had blackpowder on my sleeves and pockets. They said I couldn't get on the plane with my camo and they had to find my bag so I could get my clothes so I could change. Furthermore, they wouldn't allow my camo on the plane either. They put it in a bag and my brother had to pick it up and the airport the next day. The head of security said it was a good thing I said something. If not, I would have probably ended up on the nightly news. Also, I would have somehow gotten on the plane and someone smelled it or reported me... well he didn't even want to think about that.
This is actually the second time this has happened to me. The first time was at NIH (National Institute of Health) I went there to pick up the wife and they swabbed my steering wheel. I had some explaining to do while "Maryland's Finest" were in route.

SP

 

[graybeard]

Doesn't this kind of :bull: make you feel a whole lot safer? I just bet NO terrorist in camo with blackpowder residue on his sleeve will ever be able to get on a domestic airliner. graybeard :curse:

 

[CrackStock]

Don't wear anything with BP residue to the airport. Wouldn't finding BP residue give you some heartburn if you were responsible for keeping the planes safe? The guy lighting the bomb in his shoe sort of changed the outlook there.

If you want to comlain -- how about the taking of nail files from little old ladies while guys are drinking longnecks on the other side of the checkpoint. Now that puzzles me.

CS

 

[Rebel]

Airport security is a joke. Now they passed a law so you can't take your cigarette lighter on a plane, but you can carry on 4 books of matches. Make any sense? Your tax dollars at work. Ohh, but the BP residue will get ya in a lot of trouble. Just to keep on subject, kinda, sorta.

 

[RussB]

Slowpoke, I have read your story a couple of times, and I just don't know what to make of it.

One side of me is saying, "that is good....they did the right thing".

The other side is saying, "Who the heck do they think they are, doing to this to a guy who obivously was trying to do the right thing....they simply went too far here"!

I have been faced with Stumblinbuff's delima when going into Canada. I have had my Travel Trailer taken to pieces, and my truck gone through with a "fine tooth comb", and every piece of luggage unpacked, and emptied, because I had a junk box in the Trailer that had six .22 long rifle shells thrown in it.....and had probably been in that same box, and made that same trip several times before.

I'm not one to question if they are doing the right thing, or not. But I do question how those in this position so freely abuse this authority.

Our lives have changed since 9-11, and I don't like that change, I am having a hard time putting things in perspective.

Russ

 

[Hoyt]

Good luck Wess..So far just called in two otters and this buggerman. Came in to pick up some new[url] calls..headin[/url] back out for the last wk. Hope you have better luck than I've had.

 

[Slowpoke]

I'm back... no turkey's this time but I did call up a nice fox.

On the airport thing, honestly they did the right thing. I have no problem with their strong stance. I should have just changes my clothes earlier but I was running late.

SP

 

[KyFlintlock]

Hoyt,

Hmmmm.....an alligator possibles bag?


Stumblin, That was a great story with the pipe. Good luck and take some pics for us to slobber over! :thumbsup:


Well, I got tied up at work and worked all night and through 1/2 of opening day! :curse: I got 2hrs sleep grabbed my stuff and my son and took off. We got there in time to try and roost one and we had a few hens come in and fly up, right in front of us....no gobblers seen or heard.

My buddy that owns the farm claimed the front field where he has been watching a big un' for a few weeks. My son and I took the next ridge over where I have seen them roost in seasons past. As the twinkle light started to bright and gobbler sounded off......on the ridge where my buddy was. He fired off about 20 times, then went silent for about 10 minutes and .....BOOOOOM!

We hunted the whole farm and never heard or saw a gobbler. We saw 1 hen, where we had roosted them the eve before. :curse:

We got back to the house and my buddy had a 24lb gobbler laying in the shade of his house. It was a dandy. :applause:

I had to come back home to take care of some b'ness and prob won't get back out until hopefully next weekend.

Good luck to y'all
Wess

 

[Rat]

Turkeys made a Turkey out of me, as our opener was Friday also.

Heard one gobble quite a ways off and headed in that direction, then sat down to call, just to get it to gobble and locate it better.

Well where we sat down must have been just out of sight of the Tom, as after two minutes of calling, he came in behind us, right into where we sat up against a big tree. We were not expecting anything to come in...!

So my friend, a modern shotgunner, turns around and looks when he hears something behind him, instead of just freezing.

BIG BIG BIG Tom then takes flight, he's about five feet from us, and goes flying by my right side, friend is on my left. Right through us instead of back the way he came. Wow...what a rush, I actually even made eye-contact with the dude as he flew by. He looked pretty cool in full flight, with his head and neck all stretched out perfectly straight. Won't forget that sight.

Should have spent the afternoon today on the State land, but it was raining off and on and had other things to do. Will do some after work hunts this week.

Rat

 

[KyFlintlock]

WOW! THat is too cool to have one bust out so close...

They sure are powerful. GOod luck Rat.

 

[Keith]

"a blend known locally as "Merde du Beouf Sauvage" made by Plumebleu. "
Can you translate I only know of couple of French words and one of those is an expletive. Coincidentally, I think that word is in your 'baccy. :crackup: :what:

 

[OTHERN]

Here's the result of my trip to Wyo for a turkey.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y133/Othern/P4160001.jpg

 

[Rebel]

Well done. Now this one i can see. ::

 

[RussB]

Here's the result of my trip to Wyo for a turkey.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y133/Othern/P4160001.jpg

That's a nice bird, but the wood on that "piece" would make anything come in close, just to have a closer look!


Beautiful piece of furniture! :thumbsup: :redthumb:


Russ