The Official New York State Turkey Thread
04-30-2006, 05:13 AM
#1
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The Official New York State Turkey Thread
Well, since NY season is about to open, why not have a thread for all of the hunters who represent the Empire State.
Post your results, frustrations, or anything else you want to rant or rave about.
I scouted this morning, and heard two toms. When I went to my second location, I saw 6 toms struttin in the same field they have always been struttin in every morning for the last 2 months (Can you say strut zone people).
Little do they know, tomorrow morning there is gonna be a little ambush setup there.
Shhhh...dont tell![:-]
Post your results, frustrations, or anything else you want to rant or rave about.
I scouted this morning, and heard two toms. When I went to my second location, I saw 6 toms struttin in the same field they have always been struttin in every morning for the last 2 months (Can you say strut zone people).
Little do they know, tomorrow morning there is gonna be a little ambush setup there.
Shhhh...dont tell![:-]
04-30-2006, 10:21 AM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 4,679
RE: The Official New York State Turkey Thread
Good luck tomorrow guys, I will be near Oneonta, NY tomorrow morning. We have a few patterned up there.......hopefully it will be more eventful than my PA opener yesterday.
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04-30-2006, 08:42 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Steuben County, NY
Posts: 354
RE: The Official New York State Turkey Thread
Man what a morning...I ended up hearing 16-17 different gobblers between 3 locations that I hunt. The ole crow calls sure was getting 'em fired up. Needless to say, I'm totally pumped about tomorrow morning!!!!!!!! Me and my dad went out to the local wine company property where we planned on hunting at first light this morning and were greeted with non-stop gobbling from 5:30 until we left at 6:00 
. In all...we heard between 10-12 birds on both sides of the road...with 7 or 8 of them being on the property we can hunt. I'm gonna go after the ones on the lower side of the road and he's going on the upperside after a particular mouthy bird that I've heard all 4 times that I've scouted here in the past week. I'm still trying to work up the nerve to take the blind and my new Bowtech with me...but am still undecided a this point. Anyways, it should be an exciting opening morning with a really early wake up call in order to beat a couple of other guys there. With any luck I'll be hauling 20 lbs. + of Finger Lakes gobbler back to the truck with me (I ended up with several real close calls and a tag sandwich last spring).
Here's a little scenery of where I'll be hunting tom. morning. Hopefully, I'll be able to top my little bro's 22 pounder he got there opening day last spring.
Good luck to the rest of you NY turkey hunters out there! I'd better get to bed.
. In all...we heard between 10-12 birds on both sides of the road...with 7 or 8 of them being on the property we can hunt. I'm gonna go after the ones on the lower side of the road and he's going on the upperside after a particular mouthy bird that I've heard all 4 times that I've scouted here in the past week. I'm still trying to work up the nerve to take the blind and my new Bowtech with me...but am still undecided a this point. Anyways, it should be an exciting opening morning with a really early wake up call in order to beat a couple of other guys there. With any luck I'll be hauling 20 lbs. + of Finger Lakes gobbler back to the truck with me (I ended up with several real close calls and a tag sandwich last spring).Here's a little scenery of where I'll be hunting tom. morning. Hopefully, I'll be able to top my little bro's 22 pounder he got there opening day last spring.
Good luck to the rest of you NY turkey hunters out there! I'd better get to bed.
05-01-2006, 11:08 AM
#9
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Steuben County, NY
Posts: 354
RE: The Official New York State Turkey Thread
I got lucky and killed a nice 20.5 pounder with a 9.5" beard and 1" spurs at 5:55 this morning. It was a short/sweet hunt with lots of gobbling. This hunt was especially rewarding since I had some moron park next to my truck and come down and set-up about 70 yds. from me. The dumb as* came walking all the way down to the woods with a flashlight at 5:00. Thankfully, mr. big boy didn't see his light and liked the sound of my woodhaven mouthcall and the real hen calling behind me. Now, its gonna be tough to tag #2.
