turkey hunting

[pilatus4life]

alright its almost that time again, time to get ready for the exciting spring turkey hunt.

im new to manitoba and any info on any good public or private land that can be used to get a nice gobbler would be greatly apprietiated

[skycoupe]

Tower C, Place de Ville, 330 Sparks Street
Ottawa, Ontario

99 Bank St., 13th Floor
Ottawa, ON


Couple of target rich environments

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Skycoupe, he said turkeys, not cockroaches.

[ottawa,kan]

Boy I saw a monster Tom on our place just an hour ago. Down here the hens are starting to nest up and the Toms don't know what to do. Two weeks ago we would see a flock of 80 or so right across the road from our tree farm, 7 or 8 huge Toms struttin and jumpin at each other. They'd be in three or four groups unless you drove out into the wheat field, then they would all run together. On my 40 (acres) we have a smaller flock of 25 or 30 birds most winters, and always scare up several hens during the nesting time. Turkey are just crazy thick down here in the last 5 or 6 years, nothing like when I was a kid, when you would be lucky to seee one everycouple of years. Thick I tell ya. Maybe we could trade some Pilatus time for a private hunt?

[Blue Side Down]

I went on my first turkey hunting trips when I lived in Kansas twelve or so years ago... Used to go with a gent who introduced me to hunting as a lad out to some state land west of Wichita and sit in the bush... and sit... and cluck... and sit. The one time we saw birds was when an entire flock crossed the road in front of us on the way out of the management unit not a hundred feet ahead of the truck. Then when I moved back north of 49 I started looking around, and hearing of the odd bird up here, but never imagined seeing the flock sizes I did this past winter... just driving up to go skiing I saw a flock of a hundred, no lie, out in some lucky farmer's pasture. I'm hoping to get out in the fall for 'em so long as the MNR is going ahead with the season this year.

[2R]

How tasty is a wild turkey ???

[albertdesalvo]

How tasty is a wild turkey ???

'pends. Want it on the rocks or neat?

[ottawa,kan]

Not near as good as a store bought one. God I love turkey at Thanksgiving. The whole meal. It's so great to be a man on that day...just show up and eat. Make happy appreciative noises and eat some more. I don't actually hunt the big briusers, but a lot of my friends around here do....and by the way we have way more birds than they do out west of Wichita. Guys hunt these things because they are so dang hard to hunt. A very very cautious, wary, smart bird if ever there was one. You can be camo'd from top to toe, in a gillie suit, and they still seem to know you are there.

[Dust Devil]

I've seen Turkeys (actual birds) all over the SW corner Manitoba

[skycoupe]

And you ain't had turkey 'til you had deeeeeeep fried turkey

THATS what I'm talkin' 'bout

[albertdesalvo]

If these birds are so secretive, why do I keep driving past flocks of them walking around out in the open? Last week I passed within 40 feet of about thirty of them in a farmer's field. I see them all the time around here (Georgian Bay area).

[. ._]

How tasty is a wild turkey ???

'pends. Want it on the rocks or neat?

A delightfully horrid bourbon. Always neat, and as fast as possible to avoid the taste.

-istp

[albertdesalvo]

A delightfully horrid bourbon.

Ha ha! Is there such a thing as a good bourbon? Blargh! Though excellent for degreasing engine parts, it must be said.

[Dust Devil]

wild turkey or golden wedding? Which would you use to remove the paint from a car?

[AntiNakedMan]

I remember a gliding deployment where one of the younger officers bought a bottle of Golden Wedding and proceeded to take it down during the weather day.... Let's just say there was a "ring" but it sure wasn't golden... worse thing was, that crap was more expensive than a bottle of some decent stuff...

[Flybabe]

I was really hoping to go turkey hunting this spring - have my bow set up, a new blind, everything - but I have to work. Argh!

[Redneck_pilot86]

They know you arent hunting. They an see exactly where you are and what you are doing. Try stopping your car, even if its hidden from view, and getting out. Within about 30 seconds, they will be moving away.

If these birds are so secretive, why do I keep driving past flocks of them walking around out in the open? Last week I passed within 40 feet of about thirty of them in a farmer's field. I see them all the time around here (Georgian Bay area).

[Redneck_pilot86]

Also, the turkeys in Southern Manitoba, were the re-introduced like southern Ontario, or have they moved up from the states again naturally?

[pilatus4life]

rednack to answer your question some are reinterduced to the area starting with la riviere man. a while ago now, and the others repopulated from old stock from the wild. they have really taken off in the last few years.


i went out today (saturday) to start my hunting and im glad to see they are plentiful. i still dont have one in the bag but im on the right track. i called a few up to my blind soo close i could almost touch them, its too bad you can only shoot one bearded tom in the spring or i'd have five hens in the freezer.