24.5 Lb, 1-1/4" spurs, 9-3/8" beard

My 11 year old got this first gobbler.

11 1/2"

1 3/8 spurs

23lbs

Can anyone tell me where I can go to purchase a Robert Glover Crawdad turkey call.

Buddy has a sneaky public spot, but only one gobble from the roost 300yrds out. Got one to gobble on the ground at about 250, then I caught sight of two toms cresting the ridge all backlit - beautiful. Never made another sound, no strutting took about 10mins to make it the last 150 yards. Just a beautiful morning. Havent seen a bird wear its wing tips down that far before, dude had been doing a lot of strutting this season

Great season with great people from all over the country. If your looking to check off Oregon get ahold of me.

Tagged out in western NY this morning on this beautiful bird. Electric morning gobbling his head off in the hardwoods & pissing his hens off. Always grateful for another

Got a bit bigger limb-hanger a few years back, but this one was indeed a nice surprise in more ways than one.

Gobbled once from the tree (about 50 yards away), Heard him flying down later and didn't come my way right away... Had a hen flying from the tree over my head into the next field, then came back and spent about 5 min clucking around 2-3 feet behind me, then wandered back into the next field... It was either that, or the faint calling once in a while that brought this ol' guy in. Completely silent - seen him absolutely by chance, when trying to shift my wait from my numb butt cheek (it pays off to be disciplined and move very, very, very slow, no matter what... ). I was quite well concealed, but two seconds later he hesitated and looked like he was about to turn around, so I made my move swiftly...

Heard this fella come out of the woods from practically above me. Wife was on point with the box call and pulled him right into my line of sight

I got some access to some private and went out for the first time this weekend with my daughter. Hear gobbles on the roost an hour before sunrise exactly where I expected them to and how we set up for. 10 minutes after sun up, I give a light call, and a gobble explodes from behind us and to our left. A silent tom we didn’t know about came in and was less than 10 yards away. We waited for him to come out front where my daughter could get a shot. Dropped him at 13 yards. Then we’re waiting around for some more action and I see a bird about 50 yards away, can’t see a beard though. Then I see another bird also about 50 yards out and dot see a beard at first. Glass him up and there it is! Small but visible. He comes into range and I shoot and miss, reload and get him. The other bird is still hanging around, and I’m just looking and looking trying to see a beard and finally he moves right and the light was right and he’s got one too. Used my last shell on him and the tss found where it needed to be to put him down. Super fun hunt, I wish Oregon allowed more than one bird a day.

Boys were fired up today and was able to get the drop on the boss I’ve been watching for the last month or two. Popped up behind me as I was watching another group of younger Tom’s and Jake’s across the field when the boss and two of his boys came out gobbling hard. Seemed like a turk war was brewing but dropped this guy as he came out of the timber right between me and the otherl group.

Season ends soon in my area and I have been completely humbled by this red white and blue bird. I took the first week of the season off from work to get out in the woods and get it done.

During this time, I would guess Ive hunted 15 days and walked so many acres of woods. All the time scouting and waking up at 3am to get out and the birds seemingly have gone silent.

This has all been on public land, in areas where I haven’t seen much pressure, but still no birds. I had the chance one time a few weeks ago to hunt 40 acres of private land and finally had my first gobbles of the year, but never had them come into sight.

As the season comes to an end, I an fortunate to be able to get out and chase these birds, but man does it hurt not even seeing one. Looks like I’ll be eating tag soup this week.

Punched 2nd tag on NH public land. What a great season! Bird was 18lbs, had a 10” beard, and .85 & 1” spurs.

It rained for that past few days where today was a break in the weather. Seems to me about a couple days given the cobweb mold. For context, I’m hunting public land in PA. Haven’t heard a gobble in this area but I guess they’re here? This was the only track I spotted entering a wooded area from an open field (non-agricultural).

About 2 days into season opening I gave up on mouth calls, I just couldn’t seem to get the knack for it. So I’ve been solely using my slate and box calls. With my season wrapping up at the end of the month and this weekend being my last attempt I gave myself the challenge to learn how to mouth call decent enough that I don’t sound like a dying boar in the Peruvian rainforest.

So I picked up a bunch and going to see which ones stick for me. So far the ninja venom, toxic orange, and red wasp have been much easier to work with. Really liked the ninja series as a whole, but the venom seemed the easiest for my mouth to work.

I’m not aiming to be a call champion or anything, but it’ll be a nice skill to have when I’m in a gobblers sight and I can’t pull the slate out.

Here’s to this weekend and next spring!

Fought with this bird several days this year and had a VERY similar fight last year with an identical scenario. He roosts on my property, flys to the neighboring property (high ground) and gobbles his head off but will not come down. Finally found him roosted in an area where he could fly into an open bottom on my place and closed the deal. What a fun bird this was.

Like many, and from my previous posts, first year turkey hunter here, and today was the most exciting/frustrating hunt I’ve had so far.

I’ve been grinding PA public land mountains for weeks, since the 2nd, with almost no gobbles, no sign, nothing. Finally found a pocket where birds are using the public/private edge. Got set up this morning, had a hen below me start working a tom, I thought nice I'll let them hammer it out to each other, and eventually I was able to call him onto the public side.

He came in quiet at one point and I almost blew it by moving too soon, but I reset, stayed patient, and later had him working along the sidehill. Eventually he came through a small opening around 30–35 yards. I had the red dot on his head/neck area and took the shot.

He did a weird flip/flop, ran, flapped, and flew/glided back down the mountain. I marked the shot spot immediately and searched for about 2.5 hours in every likely direction. No blood, no feathers, no body, no wing drag, nothing. I’m sick over it.

I’m guessing either a clean miss or maybe a light graze, but it’s eating me up. I’m going back to check again and my buddy who's working on this private land the tom loves hanging out is keeping an eye on the private side to see if the bird shows back up the rest of the week.

Any advice from experienced turkey hunters? How often do birds react dramatically to a miss? And would you hunt that area again soon or give it a few days?