Dang, Countin down the days til the Indiana turkey season open's!
2Weeks vacation cant get here fast enuff LOL!
Im shootin a Mossberg 500 20ga this year, Federal HW #7 Im kinda excited to try it out!
I also got a new to me Remi Super-Mag SP Im wanting to pattern and see if she's a shooter!
April 19th is sure draggin her heels LOL!!

Pennsylvania season:

SPRING GOBBLER (Bearded bird only): May 2-30, 2015. Daily limit 1, season limit 2. (Second spring gobbler may be only taken by persons who possess a valid special wild turkey license.)

From May 2-16, legal hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise until noon;

From May 18-30, legal hunting hours are one-half hour before sunrise until one-half hour after sunset.

I'm geeked and ready to go.

I'll be hunting with my crossbow this year. I missed one last year with the crossbow and I missed one several years ago with a vertical bow. Looking for some redemption.

If I hunt the early season I'll be out 4/20-5/3. If I go for the later season I'll be out 5/4-5/31.

I prefer the first season even though ti only lasts a short time. I like being the first one out calling. I buy my tag OTC because I often have to change based on work schedule. I'm lucky in that there are always enough Private property tags left over for me to buy them OTC instead of applying and committing to a particular season.

Crossbow eh...!?

Pretty cool...let us know how you make out Mike !

Will do Shooter!!

Hopefully I'll have video of the shot.

Spring turkey starts may1st here, have seen some nice birds on the back of the property. But then, after this god awful winter, its about time we see some life

My best friend lives in NY...right over the border with PA...and has a herd (gaggle ) of turkeys waltz through his yard almost every morning...seen them on a visit.

Spectacular...has to be at least twenty of 'em !!

Saw one big tom , probably 15 to 20 pounds, hope hes still around may 1st. My brother took a 21 pounder off my property 2 years ago. Beautiful bird.

Man, I thought April 22nd was a late season but May 1st dang!!
Ive got birds on all my places, vacation form 17th thur the 5/5 and Im ready!!
Everything is good to go but still need to pattern my 20ga though.

Crappie, tell me about it, may 1st through31st. Worst part the bugs, mosquitoes.

What state you located in hammer1...!?

hammer 1 wrote:Crappie, tell me about it, may 1st through31st. Worst part the bugs, mosquitoes.

One word....Thermocell. Hands down the single best hunting/fishing/outdoor investment I've ever made.

I've got three now so I never forget it regardless of which hunting vest, tackle box I grab.

Im in western NY , Shooter, im considered the southern zone. Mike, I will definitely look into thermocell, I v
cant stand the spray on bug repellents.

Guys, I got 2 more day's and its on!! 1 of the properties we're hunting openning day is loaded!
My buddy talked to the guy(prop owner) a few hours ago and said he saw 28 cross the field in an hour period.
With my luck though, we may not see jack diddly LOL!!
Im fired up and ready though!!

Not taken with a Remington but....

I was a bit late getting to my blind. It was already light and I could hear a tom gobbling in the woods behind my blind. I quickly set one of my decoys about 20 yard out in front me and hit one of the box calls lightly a few times. I got no response so I hit it again a little louder but got no response. Not wanting to overdo it I decided to be quiet for a while and see what happens. A short while I heard turkey sounds and spotted two hens out in the middle of the cornfield about 200 yards out. I responded to them with a couple yelps and they started talking back. They weren't moving but they just kept yelping and cutting from the middle of the field. I stopped calling figuring that as long as they were making noise, it was much more attractive than whatever I could do.

They keep going on and on for 15 - 20 minutes when I spotted movement out of the other corner of my blind. A group of 6 hens and jakes started walking out to the field. I started to set myself up for a possible shot on one of the jakes when a younger tom stepped out to the field and went full strut. I continued to keep my eyes on him while still trying to turn for a show. After getting into position they were still walking around calmly so I double checked the yardage with the range finder just to be sure. He was spot on 35 yards. I watched him through the scope of the crossbow for what seemed like forever until he came out of strut for a second and let the arrow fly. He stumbled a bit and jumped back into the woods. The rest, clueless to what just happened, just started milling around anxiously. Some of the the hens followed the top into the woods while two of the small jakes stayed out in the fields.

I wanted to wait a bit just to be safe. I didn't want to push him in case the shot wasn't as good as i thought it was. After about 10-15 minutes the rest of the turkeys were no longer within sight so I crept out of the blind and worked my way along the edge of the field. I found the feather where I had hit him and lots of blood. I could see the arrow sticling out of the ground a few feet beyond where I had hit him.As soon as I looked up the tril to the woods, there he was crumpled up about 5 yards in. He was done and I had my first crossbow turkey.

8 7/8" beard
3/4" spurs

Shot at 35 yards with a Middleton DTM 355 crossbow using 18" Excalibur Diablo arrows and 100gr Ramcat Broadheads.





After I dressed him I determined the shot missed the heart but nicked one of the lungs. It entered the chest and exited the thigh.

I had my video camera mounted to the bow but never even though it while it was all playing out. DOH!!

I had seen what I believed to be the same flock the night before on the far side of the field but could not get them to come in.