2007 scouting photos

[MK-M-GOBL]

Well my son and I started our 2007 scouting this past weekend and here are just a few photos from that trip. Hopefully this weekend coming up I can get some better close ups of the long beards I missed because I son was yelling, “turkey! gobble gobble turkey! turkey!”.

Not even two yet and I’ve got him gobbling and owl hooting! If I knew how to load the video from my camera to the computer, I’d post a small clip of him calling turkeys. I think in a few more weeks I’m going to start him working a call Andy Kaiser made for him and see how he does with it.

[shed94]

Great photos I've seen a lot of turkey this year so far.

[MK-M-GOBL]

Thanks

A few from my morning scouting trip today plus a white hen from the other day. The white hen is the same one I photographed last year. All the rest were from one of my many hunting spots. I still missed getting three long beards with the camera today. There’s one gobbler, three jakes crossing in the field photo. Sorry about the focus of some of the photos! I get pretty pumped when I see them which make holding the camera steady hard to do. After I turned around to head home, a couple hundred yards up the road I saw a gobbler walking across the road heading to my left. I drove up and was taking these photos when I noticed a bunch of hens, jakes and the other three long beards (the ones I missed) all crossing behind my truck in my side mirror. By the time I turned back around they were gone! Notice the stone wall the gobbler with his back to me is walking across? Looking back, I bet those turkeys were just over it on the other side when I went back and that’s why I never saw them. I’ll get them in the morning now I know where they’ve been hanging out. Hope you enjoy the photos as much as I did getting them

[bluemtchuck]

Nice pics Tom, I love seeing pics of Turkeys.

[MK-M-GOBL]

If that's the case! Here are a few more from this morning ;D I found a new spot. Well not really a new spot. I'm sure as the season gets closer they will spread out in to the area I've hunted & killed a turkey in a few years ago. There was a total of four long beards and nine Jakes in this group. I stop and was photographing four of the Jakes when I heard gobbling from down the road. I drove down further and found the long beards with the other Jakes standing in the entrance to a timbered hillside. As I was taking photos of the long beards, the five Jakes were higher up on the hillside gobbling! It was a great find this morning! Off the beaten path new huntable spot holding four gobblers for a back up spot is always good to have heading into the season ;D

[troutpro]

Thanks for the pictures! Looks as though you have quite a few options of gobblers to take. How close were they when you were taking the pictures?

[MK-M-GOBL]

This is no where near enough ;D Hopefully by the time our season rolls around, I'll have a at least 10 or more spots like this in my arsenal to pick from

About 20 yards while they were in the clearing entrance and the other photos maybe 25 to 30 yards away. I've got a pretty good zoom lens on my camera.

[MK-M-GOBL]

Here are a few photos I’d like to share with you all. Sorry for the out of focus. When their out that far, I don’t have a very steady hand with the camera.

The first one was when I pulled up to my house. I saw this gobbler just hanging out in my front yard strutting ;D The next two were ones bluemtchuck and saw. We were wondering if the one by itself was a gobbler and now I know it was. The other two photos were in Vermont, we knew there was at least two long beards but know I see they all were. Even the four way across a hilltop looked to be long beards.

I almost hunted this piece in Vermont last year but had a local following me around. Didn’t care to get into it with anyone and decided to leave the bird alone. If I go by this farm next year and see them, I’ll be hunting it. The chipmunk was distracting my son this morning. I stop to look at a few hens and he kept saying over and over, mice! mice! mice! I keep saying, no turkeys! But then realized what he was talking about. He was watching this guy running across the stone wall so I took a photo of him.

[Masshntr]

Nice pics! I've GOT to hunt NH this year...