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General Discussion To Gateway To Airguns => Hunting Gate => : Wade.S April 16, 2010, 11:55:57 AM
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Doug.T and myself got up this am and headed out for a turkey hunt to a place that Doug had received permission for us to hunt on. On the way out we saw a flock of about 10 turkeys but they were on private land. Upon arriving to the spot we were going to hunt we saw a single hen. We hiked around the guy's land and did not see any other turkeys. Upon hiking to the top of hill we were able to see 4 turkeys on his neighbors land and about 18 whitetail deer at the top on his land. Doug and I then decide to go up onto public land and look for a turkey. No turkeys found but we did get into a few ground squirrels, we shot 5 of them and 6 birds. On the way back down we saw 4 turkeys on the place we had permission to hunt, once again all hens. A short way down the road we saw 2 toms strutting on the side of the road and a few hens in the field. I stopped at the nearby house and asked permission and was turned away. Dang! Any how here are the photos.
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Nice shooting on the Nutters, too bad about the turkeys!
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Good shooting and nice pics.... At least you saw the turkeys, that's 1/2 the battle.... I'm sure you'l get em next time..
JEff
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Some fine shooting and pic's there fellas and Turkey's walking on the road hehe. My tire had a blow out and the rig drifted right into the Turkey's hehehe. Ed
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Nice shooting! The turkeys I hunt know what day I'm not there. I got a text from the landowner saying he had four gobblers IN HIS BACKYARD! When I'm there....nada :(
Well at least you were entertained! :D
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Good shooting on the ground Squirrels guys.
Maybe one of those cheap Turkey decoys and a couple of calls will bring them onto the property next time ???
Paul.
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Good shooting. You guys hunting turkey with your pellet gun, if so are you going for the head shot or are you going for a body shot.
Jeff
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Jeff, I was hunting turkey with a shotgun. Doug was along for the ride not having a tag so he carried his pellet gun for "anything else" we might see. We took turns with the ar shooting. However I don't think it would be wise to body shoot a turkey with an ar.
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The thought crossed our mind. My 850 is zero'd at 25 yards and when we stopped, the toms were about 20-22 yards and not moving muchl. An earshot would have been a piece of cake but that would be illegal.
The ground squirrel shooting was fun. Some of the smaller ones were launching off the back side of brush piles after kissing a 14.3g pellet at 850+ fps.
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great shooting
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Great shooting at the nutters with the air rifle.....you`ll get your turkey(s) the next time out.