Archive for the ‘Turkey’ Category
30May2009
Missouri Spring Turkey Season Results
Posted by Darrell under: Turkey.
Assuming I did my math right, the total 2009 Spring Turkey harvest was 44,712 birds. That is 41,829 during the 3 week Spring season and 2,883 during the Spring Youth season.
Of those totals, I’m happy to admit that one of those birds taken during the Youth season was by my son Caleb. Unfortunately, Caleb […]
8April2009
Caleb Bags His First Turkey During the 2009 Missouri Youth Spring Turkey Season
Posted by Darrell under: Turkey.
Saturday – April 4, 2009 was a special day for my son, Caleb. It was the opening morning of the Youth Spring Turkey Season. We woke up early and went to meet our friends Jeff, Todd, and Todd’s seven year old son – Gavin. This would be Gavin’s first hunt (of any kind) and he […]
17May2008
Oh, How I Love Those Spring Toms - Another Missouri Spring Turkey Season
Posted by Darrell under: Turkey.
Ok, so you think you are a hunter. Yeah, me too. The problem is, and has been for some time now, that the turkeys in my neck of the woods don’t agree. They routinely make a laughing stock of me.
Missouri’s Spring Turkey Season just recently ended. I spent as much time as I could out […]
21October2007
Pictures of My Two Turkeys Taken Friday Morning - One Has 11 1/2″ Beard!
Posted by Darrell under: Turkey; Hunting Stories.
Have you ever planned a morning hunt and then over slept? I have. I did. I was sick. As I drove out to the cabin yesterday morning, I was having a hard time keeping a positive attitude. I overslept by about an hour and I was afraid my hunt was ruined. I didn’t make it to my […]
20October2007
Missouri Fall Turkey Seasons
Posted by Darrell under: Turkey.
Hunting Missouri Turkeys in the Fall is about as much fun as you can have. The two most common ways to hunt turkey in the fall is to 1) walk until you find them, bust them, and then call them back in or 2) ambush them.
Yesterday, I decided on an ambush. You have to remember […]
4May2007
Smoked By A Turkey
Posted by Darrell under: Turkey; Missouri.
I don’t know what it is about Missouri Turkeys, but I just can’t seem to kill one. I didn’t grow up hunting them and just started last year. My big mistake, early on, was in not hunting with anyone that really knew what they were doing.
I figured that I had been seeing turkeys for years while […]
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