Is there anyone in west central Alabama ( particularly Hale and Marengo Co) that would be interested in me coming turkey hunting with them?? All I want to do is call and film....I am wanting to get some good footage to use for our call company

I'll come shoot at your place

X2

Haha! I better pass on that

I can't believe no one has offered up a place yet.

I got some turkeys in chilton and bibb but it would be a couple hour drive. It might be worth it if you hunted the weekend I have somewhere to stay.

Where at in Bibb? My father in law is in a hunting club right by the jail.....but yea I may be interested in that....we'll see closer to time.....I have a pretty busy spring coming up

You can come go with me in the mountains of Jackson County. We ain't sitting on any plots though, we're gonna run and gun, no ground blinds allowed, and I ain't waiting on jack chit camera wise to shoot so getting the footage is completely on your shoulders. What day are you coming?

I got one in Bibb too I might be interested in having you at. We're in six mile

Jughead....no thanks.....gotta be willing to let em walk to get good footage!

Ok jlbuc10 just let me know

I'm out. If I can get a bead on him he's fixing to get turned a flip

I understand.....it's hard....but the more of em you kill the easier it gets

Wow Brent ol' MFK must be a stone cold killa.

BrentM will NEVER have killed enough!

I'm not a stone cold killer but if I never get to see another one flop I can promise you I've killed more than my share

Most people that have killed very many dont have to brag. Kill your limit for 30 yrs, then you have killed a turkey hunters " share".

To each his own MFK and I mean this in the most sincere and respectful way possible; but I hope I don't never kill enough to get to that point.

Hahaha! If you only

To each his own MFK and I mean this in the most sincere and respectful way possible; but I hope I don't never kill enough to get to that point. [/quote]

I understand

And I don't ever recall bragging about anything

This isnt bragging.......Um ok then

I'll call on your place. You can shoot.

Dont let him shoot N2 he has killed over 150 but he is a master at looking younger than he most be.

No that's a fact not bragging......I don't brag.....I let the numbers I put up brag for me.....and I dang sure don't have to be a computer badass to try to make myself look good......so.....back to my original post.....anybody that would like their turkey hunt filmed let me know

I'll still come shoot at your place. Maybe you could send me some free stone cold killa calls. Ok... sorry I struck a nerve. I hope your calls and videos goes well.

sounds like bragging to me.

If it got any easier for some of these folks (they know who they are), the turkeys would have to kill themselves just as they came into killing range.

Just wondering how old u actually are??

27

My thoughts exactly, I love to watch them flop.

I'll quit hunting them if I ever get to that point, which ain't very likely.

You would have to wear tennis shoes

Heck 27, You can only kill 5 a year.

Even if you killed from birth that wouldn't be enough for me.

I only wear tennis shoes turkey hunting....with the soles glued backwards so it looks like I'm going when I'm coming! Lol

You can only kill 5??

Just in bama.

Haha

I've killed a few; still want to shoot some more. A LOT more.

I would be a miserable tv hunter. It would go something like this:

Camera Guy - I see him! Let him make it to that opening and we'll try to get him to put on a show!

Me: Boom!!!

Gotta take the shot when its presented; fooling around with a turkey can lead to a bad jinx. MFK is too young to understand such things. If he keeps hunting, he will.

I would hunt with this man^^^^^^^^

What do you mean by a bad jinx?? I've called up the same turkeys 3 days in a row before we shot them.....

You fixin to get a sure enough, Aldeer Beards and Spurs forum, education now. Hang around this place pal....if you're a serious turkey hunter, you will love it in time....takes a little while before they fully accept you though. They wouldn't even allow me to hunt turkeys for several years....much less join in the posting here.

Haha

Hogwash, may have been different turkeys. Gobbler will be along any minute with the tracking study data that turkeys can and will roam miles a day and not roost in the same area. I am not being funny here either. He has the data to back it up.

They CAN/ WILL doesn't mean they DO......I know for a fact it was the same turkey.....unless it was 3 different turkeys within 100yds of the same spot missing the exact same tail feathers (pictured in my other post)

3Toe, get me a cold bud light and some pork skins.....

Congratulations! That oughta set off your first good turkey jinx.

You may have called up the same turkey 3 days in a row before, but you never did it and posted about it on aldeer. Posting about something like that here pretty much guarantees a jinx. If you have never lived thru a turkey jinx, you just can't imagine how its gonna be. You can do everything perfectly and the turkey will still get away. And not just once; day after day after day.

I once killed 22 in a row with my SBE and for some reason felt the need to post that here. I think it was in some kind of argument about shells. Anyway, next bird - miss. Outback posted that he had never missed a turkey in years of hunting. Next bird - miss. I could go on and on, but you get the picture.

When you get caught up in a turkey jinx, come back here for advice. You'll find this bunch a lot more willing to give out anti-jinx advice than they will be to let you hunt their turkeys.

I won't argue it wasn't the same one if you were talking about one turkey with missing tailfeathers. I took your post to mean multiple turkeys. Same one in same place 3 days in a row then you had a home body to hunt.

Forgot to add, even Jughead could have killed that turkey if he stayed there 3 days.

Chit. I couldn't kill one at a Butterball facility.

Well I personally choose not to believe in jinxes or bad luck....I believe you make your own luck with patience, persistence and hard work.....now....I'm not crazy enough to say "I never miss"...or "there ain't one I can't kill"....but every turkey I've ever missed or screwed up was because of something I did....not a jinx. Every morning I'm in the turkey woods I have a talk with the good Lord, thank him for giving me another day to turkey hunt, then whatever happens, happens....like I said earlier (not bragging or being a smartass) if I never kill another one I'm not going to complain.....calling them up is way more fun than shooting to me anyway

I'd have gone boom on 3 turkeys in those three days if that was me. I don't turkey hunt to bird watch, or entertain somebody else, or impress somebody, or spend time in the woods. Seems to me like it ain't-a-pode-a-be-dat-way. I'm hunting for the rush of one coming in to where I can turn him a flip and tote him home with me. And I have been know to get irritable if the guy I'm hunting with tells me, "wait, don't shoot, let me get some more video footage..."

Oh yeah, jinxes are real. I had to engage in all sorts of voodoo in 2012 to rid myself of a jinx on a certain gun. It's a long story... And yeah, it was something I did that brought the jinx on.

Haha!!! Voodoo Hugh?!

Only reason I ever had to hold up shooting was he wasn't in range. I negated most of those instances now by shooting TSS.

don't believe in jinxs????????





don't make me do it just to prove a point to ya.......

Don't even play Troy, don't even play. That some serious juju that no one wants.

Yep. I visited several turkey hunting sites looking for advice on how to rid the gun of the jinx. (And yeah, it was the gun. I was 0 for 9 with that particular gun during a certain time frame, usually not encountering a turkey at all, while something like 10 for 20 using 4 other different guns.) I ended up doing several different things including dabbing it with turkey blood from the next one I killed, letting it sleep in it's case with a gobbler feather, and verbally explaining to it that I was sorry for my mistake, etc. And then, the next time I took it out, I was faced with the exact same situation that caused the jinx in the first place. So,I swallowed my pride and didn't make the same mistake again. And the jinx ended that day.

I got this doll from a guy in north Ga, he said it had the bad gris-gris on it......


I used this one on a guy that had his church pray that I wouldn't kill a turkey one year because I wouldn't go to his church....he didn't kill a turkey or even a deer for a couple of years. Quit hunting and went to fishing.....

I once,in a moment of complete stupidity,said I turkey hunt with a bow because they are too easy with a gun. Anyone who believes in a jinx knows how that ended.......

Now thats funny ,I dont care who you are.

LOL

I'll go ahead and give you a tip that I picked up from Yekrut right here on aldeer; it is powerful anti-jinx medicine. You are gonna need some.

When you are blessed to kill a gobbler, get down and roll around in the blood and feathers like a dog. Try to get as much of the blood and turkey smell on you as you can, and of course, don't wash those clothes again until the season ends. I haven't experienced a jinx since I started doing that. Thanks again for that tip, Yekrut!

I do that anyway.......thanks tho lol

The only thing about that anti-jinx medicine is that a man would have to use some sub-par turkey loads to get a bird to bleed enough to make a difference. They just don't bleed with TSS. Reckon I need to keep some Nitros around just in case?

>>>They just don't bleed with TSS. <<<

That's because you are using 9s. Switch to 8s and you will get some blood. Switch to 7s and it will be like a deer kill.

I am now the proud owner of a pound and a half of TSS 4's. I figure an ounce of 4's over the top of 1 1/4 ounce 9's might make a pretty good brush-buster load.

Shoot thats a deer load.

Those 8's I just loaded will make one bleed out. I was surprised at the hole size of the 8's. I got that warm, gobbler killing feeling all inside.

Gobbler ain't weighing in on this young-un or this debate. I am pretty sure I have killed a couple multiples of his numbers and 1) I don't wait for a "better shot" or to get more footage and 2) I would probably pine away if I never got to kill another. Anyone who is interested can go back and see previous years posts and learn a LOT about jinxs and home range data, etc, etc, blah blah blah I will say that noting (especially among this group) that your so good you have called up the same turkey 3 days in a row and know FOE SURE it was the same one is almost certain to bring on a nice case of a jinx

Ok I'm about to take everyone's breath......I don't believe in jinxes.....turkeys are stupid....they have a brain about the size of a walnut and any animal that will mount up and try to get a piece off a decoy ain't real bright, or that jumps on a flopping turkey after you've done shot his ass just to get his head blown off too.....now lets see if I'm jinxed come march 15th.....now I may go all year and not kill a turkey....but if I do it's because of something "I" did not some stupid jinx

If the big man up stairs wants me to kill a turkey....I will....if he don't....I won't.....a jinx ain't got crap to do with it

Bless him LORD

A jinx has nothing to do with what "I" or "you" did. That's the jinx part. You can do everything right, and it all goes wrong. How is that something you did?

Couple of examples will serve, of my last misfortunate year.

1) Set up on bird and he is coming on a string. Wild dog runs in and scares bird off.

2) Set up on a bird. Bird is working nicely, coming. Another hunter slips in between me and him and kills him.

I have more, but in every case everything was out of my control and nothing "I" did could have changed the outcome.

Good luck this coming spring.

I talk bad about coyotes and bobcats all the time.....and kill the hell out of em.....

Case 1: shoot the dog...won't happen again, done it before
Case 2: don't happen to me I hunt private land

Either case you still left without a bird due to no fault of your own. Next.

My tactics must be WAY different than y'all's....I learns some things 2 years ago from a buddy of mine that has killed 300+ turkeys and my numbers last year doubled.....now I don't set up on or call to a gobbling turkey most of the time until I put my eyes on him.....once you get that close ain't a whole hell of alot that can go wrong.....unless he smells you I guess

My....my....my

Bless him LORD

Just cover yourself in Tinks Hen in Heat and he will never smell you, just the smell of love in the air.

im with you, them stupid TURKEYS get on my nerves! Kill em All NUTZ, DMTHJACK!

Did he teach you to be humble as well or did you pick that up all on your own?

OMG

What part of Alabama are you hunting there Jer?

I am humble....I'm far from the best and I'm sure many of you are way better callers and hunters.....I've not bragged once! All I have said is if I never kill another one I've killed my share and in order to get good footage you have to be willing to let let turkeys go.....and I've killed enough to be willing to do that....that's my opinion and how I feel....that's not bragging or boasting

West Central.....Marengo, Hale, and Perry county

Is this the guy that taught you to sneak up on them before they see you??!!! Ninjy skills son!!!

Haha not quite

Just pulling your leg buddy.

Don't go ninjin no turkey that don't need ninjin.

NUTZ OUT!

I ain't never found one of them sumbucks that didn't need a good ninji'n

Wow is all I have to say You know he'll come on here next spring and say he killed an AL limit on Mar 20th!

MY friend Preacher actually touches em before he calls to them then calls them AWAY from him so they don't get too many pellets in the breast and he's killed 4 or 500

He's good then

Whoa! That'll keep the saplings thinned out. Be a good place to put up a deer stand after you clear a shooting lane with it.

Actually, I prefer straight nines in brush...

But seems to me there's a whole heck of a lot that can go wrong before you can sneak up that close to him. I learned years ago that trying to out-see turkeys is a losing strategy in the long run.

Don't get me wrong - I think that getting close is crucial to a high-percentage encounter of the gobbling kind. But I prefer to try to use his eyes against him, instead of trying to out-see him. It kinda goes directly against that if you can see him, and he can see you, when you start calling to him. I want him to come looking for me, and don't want him to be able to see where I'm calling from till he's in range and I have the safety off and the bead on his neck.

Your tactics are indeed way different than mine. I very seldom get to call to a turkey after I've seen him, and if I made it my goal to see him first, I'd see a whole lot of them flying away. And I have found there are a whole lot of things that can go wrong after I have put my eyes on one. I have the battle scars to prove it.

Don't take us too seriously, MFK. You are just getting a good aldeer welcome, and most of what's in this thread is just joking with you. The guys that post here in the off-season take turkey hunting pretty seriously. Most of them knock out an AL limit of 5 birds pretty fast in the season, and then go state-hopping to try to kill some more. Some of the posters in this thread regularly kill double-digit numbers each spring. I have learned a lot from them; hang around and you will too. And some of them also make turkey calls.

Good luck with all your hunting!

Are you really gonna turkey hunt with tss#4? I don't wanta be on the other side of you when you shoot.

I'm on the edge of my seat! Can you give us a few pointers that you learned from your sensai?

One thing I've learned the hard way over the years is to get down wind of where you expect the gobbler to come from. Don't listen to anyone who tells you that a turkey doesn't use it's nose.

Another thing I've noticed, turkeys have good vision but I think it's overrated.

My final tip today... Keep a set of feet around all year long. Once or twice a day, I'll pick up those feet and practice my spurring and fighting. It's really helped me pull those hard headed gobblers in close. It allows my to judge their trophy quality much better.

I keep a string of 10 gobbler beaks in my vest. I dried them out good and put a couple coats of clear poly on them for looks. I will take them out on a hardheaded bird or on a slow day and rattle them just like you would if you were rattling up a deer. "Rattling Beaks" coming to a store near you spring 2014.

Ill take a set

Yep. You can tell when you're fooling with a really old smart turkey. He will try to circle around and come in down wind of you every time Bout the only chance you got is to yelp at him one little lick and then jump up and try to cut him off like a rabbit when he makes a loop.

Preacher........... Tommy gave me some of those 4's to try out for home defense and coyote loads. Hal's 13/16 oz .410 load would have 68 pellets of TSS #4 . Seems to me like that would be a tremendous amount of firepower at short range from a taurus judge or any of those other .410 revolvers.
Might load a couple of 2 1/4 oz 12 gauge shells with them. I would almost bet money that would be a dead coyote every time at 100 yards+ if you could figure out the holdover.
You got me thinking though, an ounce if 4's over an ounce and a quarter of 9's would be 533 pellets. Any load over 500 pellets is plenty good enough to hunt turkeys with. If you used those little 9's Hal gets it would be a little over 600 pellets. I wouldn't seriously wanna hunt turkeys with it cause if feel like I was wasting my shot but if it came down to it I'd still rather shoot that load than anything that could be bought from a factory.

It would probably make a real good deer/turkey combo load for anybody with a fall turkey season

I think you should try out your skills in the Mountains.....I think that tactic would work great up here!

Is that an invite?!

Sure....Come on up and go with JUGHEAD anytime you'd like....You don't want to go to my garholes...Ask foldemup if you don't believe me....

I usually don't venture too far from home during turkey season...I haven't run out of turkeys here yet lol

If all I wanted to do was kill a handful a year I would stay at home too.

As long as the game wardens and everybody else thinks like you I'm doing aight

This keeps getting better

MFK may be a young'un but I believe he's done learned some slick tricks. If I didn't know better I'd think he was holding out on us on that other picture thread.

LoL nope....not me

How tall are u.....

5'7"-8".....y?

Trying to figure out if you could keep up with me