WV Season off to rough start

alscalls · April 28, 2008, 01:15:08 PM

I went out this mourning in the pouring rain and sat there waiting for some kind of action when I hear my buddy say this is a bunch of crap! It rained hard and was cold.

The card in the corner says Fins And Fur but it got wet and did not show up good. The sun was trying to come out here.

I had one decoy out so I could move quick if they started gobbling.

My friend was really wanting to go home, but I kept him out anyway.....You cant kill em from the couch!

and I saw a coyote for my efforts! He would not come close enough though.

My friend saw me taking this photo and said how can you possibly be enjoying this day? I just grinned........

Then my phone vibrated and it was a friend of mine that I gave a walnut box call too....Guess what he done with that call to get out of the rain.......a yummy Jake! I wish we had seen him I would have done the same.

Silencer · April 28, 2008, 02:07:08 PM

At least you got out Al, I've been working my hind end off. Season has already started, a few friends got birds and rubbed it in... but THEY FINALLY APPROVED MY VACATION for next week

!!!!

HaMeR · April 28, 2008, 03:30:11 PM

The rain shut work down here today too. I decided that since I was feeling better than I have been I should just stay in the house.

Still a coyote sighting was worth it I would think.

alscalls · April 28, 2008, 03:41:11 PM

Quote from: HaMeR on April 28, 2008, 03:30:11 PM
The rain shut work down here today too. I decided that since I was feeling better than I have been I should just stay in the house.

Still a coyote sighting was worth it I would think.

Did ya see any in the house?................... :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

alscalls · April 28, 2008, 06:44:28 PM

Quote from: Silencer on April 28, 2008, 02:07:08 PM
At least you got out Al, I've been working my hind end off. Season has already started, a few friends got birds and rubbed it in... but THEY FINALLY APPROVED MY VACATION for next week !!!!

Next week looks better for the weather so far. I am afraid I may not do so good this year this is the only week I have off and the weather sucks. I could probably get my rifle and get one easy but what fun would that be? I will stick with the shotgun and call them in or go without. I just enjoy being out.

DirtyDog · April 28, 2008, 07:03:38 PM

Keep after em Al.....you get one. I may even get back out this weekend.

FinsnFur · April 28, 2008, 08:02:39 PM

You get an "A" for effort. Were suppose to be staring spring in the eyes. It snowed here today too

alscalls · April 29, 2008, 08:04:56 PM

Second day? COLD AND WET! Tomorrow will be 38 deg. warming up to 68deg. I am hopefull for some late gobbling

either way I will be out there till 1:oo and then its fence fixing time. Thats when I will see them I bet after legal shooting time.

wv_yoter · April 29, 2008, 10:09:35 PM

Al, it's been terrible here in Wirt County too. Maybe Wednesday will be better.

Frogman · April 30, 2008, 09:20:00 AM

Hang in there Al. Good luck!

Jim

alscalls · April 30, 2008, 06:33:41 PM

Today was better....the turkeys were gobbling and I could have killed one but I passed him to let the guy I was with kill him and.......they came running(three of them) and hung up at 55 yds. strutting and double tripple gobbling! One of them came to about 35yds and peeked around a hudge white oak I could see him but the guy I was calling for could not. I let him walk away and a hen came to my right and took the gobblers over the hill with no shot taken.
I was drinking a Pepsi trying to convinse my friend that we were not busted yet and the gobblers would return when they finished with that hen, When all of a sudden GOBBBBBBBBBBBBBBLE They were back and I could see thier fans comming up the hill! At 50 yds. they could not yet see the decoys for that tree and my friend said "I can kill him" I told him no do not shoot yet let em get real close and we will pull a double.
He said" they are leaving and I can kill him" I agin said no not yet.......BANG he shoots and the bird at 50 yds. dose a flip and flyes into a tree and BANG I tried to finish the botched hunt but he flew away.
I looked at him and he said SORRY

I said listen and learn cause that wont happen again with me. I would rather see him walk away than to have to wonder is he dead. I made him put every feather in a bag to bring back as a reminder of why we do not shoot turkes with a shotgun out of your effective range!

that leaning tree way in the back, that is were the turkeys were!

here I am zoomed on the decoys...We had to put them up quick.

this is your trophy when you ask someone to call you a bird and you dont listen to a firm dont shoot!

They were strung out for five feet :roflmao: And he actually picked them up :roflmao: :roflmao:
He is a good friend and I love to do that to him when he screws up he is just green in the woods.
The best part of my day? Watching him fall asleep in the woods and falling over........ :roflmao:

:roflmao:

HaMeR · April 30, 2008, 08:31:47 PM

Well I hope he learned. I'm not bashin your buddy but when you go with someone more experienced than you are you just have to learn to trust that guy no matter what the outcome might be.

I sure hope you guys can get together again so he can make you proud Al!! Good Luck!!

alscalls · April 30, 2008, 08:39:52 PM

I am making him go to the same area tomorrow and I hope I can show him how dumb a turkey is... The turkey being him.... :roflmao: :roflmao: I too learned the hard way but I had no one to tell me dont shoot or I would not have. He is a dear friend and I kid him a lot but I want him to feel bad about this it is the only way he will learn from it and be more patient.
never the less if I do not get to hunt for myself I know I can still call em right in with the best of them! And it felt good to see them birds working in front of us. If I get the chance tomorrow I will yell "MY TURN! " And when they pop those heads up I will shoot one and tell him thats how ya do it. :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

HaMeR · April 30, 2008, 08:58:08 PM

I'm glad I read the whole post Al!! I was beginning to think you were a prick!! :roflmao: :roflmao:

Just bustin ya buddy!!

alscalls · April 30, 2008, 09:06:30 PM

He knows I am only tough on him cause he busts my chops about always getting a bird when I want to. I have even been lucky enough to pretend to be bold enough to say.........I will kill one Wed. While you are at work, and actually kill one and send him a pic over the phone! :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
To him I make it look easy but I want him to know it is hard work.

alscalls · May 01, 2008, 06:19:13 PM

Today was real nice and the birds would gobble at a sneeze! I worked five gobblers for an hour and a half they gobbled more times in a row than I think I have ever heard!!! I had em at 40 yds with an embankment blocking my view. All I could see was part of thier fans every now and then. they hung up and a hen flew up in a tree and it was..... hold real still for fifteen min. while she watched our decoys then she flew down without a sound and took all those gobblers away(about eight oclock). No more gobbling until about 10-10:30 but they would not come. still a very nice day indeed.

HaMeR · May 01, 2008, 06:28:23 PM

I sure hope they are gobbling this weekend here.

alscalls · May 01, 2008, 06:30:43 PM

Supposed to rain but if it thunders.........I will be there. I hope it stays nice Hammer they are gobbling thier asses off! .........Laughing at us I think :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:

HaMeR · May 01, 2008, 08:16:13 PM

I'll be out both days if I don't work Saturday.

Let it rain. I'll just set in my popup blind on a field edge.

alscalls · May 01, 2008, 08:17:14 PM

I do not need one I wont melt.