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<blockquote data-quote="4shotB" data-source="post: 710835" data-attributes="member: 844"><p>I got started hunting turkeys sometime back in the early to mid 80's with an old timer in south Ga. I had never seen a turkey and was dubious about the whole thing. We would sit in a single spot for hours on end and he would give 3 soft little yelps about every 20 minutes on an old slate call he must have gotten sometime around the great Depression. If we heard 3 birds gobble in a season it was a "good year". Finding tracks or feathers was a "successful hunt". I hunted hard for 8 years before I killed one. Hard to believe with today's populations.</p><p></p><p>Moved to Tennessee in the 90's and it was turkey hunting paradise....lots of birds with not much pressure. I had more farms to hunt that I could reasonably hunt well. I would hear 8 birds gobble in a single morning and would move to a different spot if I didn't see or hear turkeys within an hour or two. Knew where they would roost and travel patterns on each farm. Physically, it was much harder hunting the hills than the flat land of SoGa but I enjoyed that as well.</p><p></p><p>Like all good things, my personal "golden era" faded....the farms sold over time. Or the landowners families started hunting them and I was crowded out. Still had access to quality public land hunting but that is a different beast as you hunters know. Still managed to shoot birds every year but did not always limit out.Started spending more and more time fishing instead.</p><p></p><p>Moved again a few years ago. Have not located any places to hunt close by and have not put much effort into tbh. I haven't been in the woods on a spring morning since. There is nothing like being there about 30 minutes before the all the various birds starting stirring, especially on a clear morning. I think my future is going to be limited to once a year and paying $ to hunt at a hunting lodge but I have resisted that so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="4shotB, post: 710835, member: 844"] I got started hunting turkeys sometime back in the early to mid 80's with an old timer in south Ga. I had never seen a turkey and was dubious about the whole thing. We would sit in a single spot for hours on end and he would give 3 soft little yelps about every 20 minutes on an old slate call he must have gotten sometime around the great Depression. If we heard 3 birds gobble in a season it was a "good year". Finding tracks or feathers was a "successful hunt". I hunted hard for 8 years before I killed one. Hard to believe with today's populations. Moved to Tennessee in the 90's and it was turkey hunting paradise....lots of birds with not much pressure. I had more farms to hunt that I could reasonably hunt well. I would hear 8 birds gobble in a single morning and would move to a different spot if I didn't see or hear turkeys within an hour or two. Knew where they would roost and travel patterns on each farm. Physically, it was much harder hunting the hills than the flat land of SoGa but I enjoyed that as well. Like all good things, my personal "golden era" faded....the farms sold over time. Or the landowners families started hunting them and I was crowded out. Still had access to quality public land hunting but that is a different beast as you hunters know. Still managed to shoot birds every year but did not always limit out.Started spending more and more time fishing instead. Moved again a few years ago. Have not located any places to hunt close by and have not put much effort into tbh. I haven't been in the woods on a spring morning since. There is nothing like being there about 30 minutes before the all the various birds starting stirring, especially on a clear morning. I think my future is going to be limited to once a year and paying $ to hunt at a hunting lodge but I have resisted that so far. [/QUOTE]
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