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<blockquote data-quote="Chief44" data-source="post: 5307749" data-attributes="member: 20280"><p>As far as TN goes, it really depends on what part of the state you were in. I saw my first Turkey at LBL in the mid 80's. As a teenager, my dad and I deer hunted LBL quiet a bit during bow season. They had opened it up where you could kill a Turkey with a bow while deer hunting and I missed the first one I ever saw. My first actual Turkey hunt was in Houston county in I believe 1987 or 1988. At that time only the west end of Houston county was open to Turkey hunt. I was still in high school and had gotten permission to hunt a place on the west end of the county. I got there late and heard a bird gobbling his head of. I got close and tried to work him in but couldn't get him to budge. After messing with him for what seemed like half the day, I finally got close enough to him to realize he was a tame bird in a pen. I felt like an idiot. I ran into another hunter on the way to the truck. He was laughing and said, "I guess you couldn't call that bird out of that pen either". He had apparently done the same thing before I got there. The next year, they opened the rest of Houston county. I remember it snowed on the night before opening morning and I killed my first gobbler with 2-3 inches of snow on the ground. I'm not sure when other parts of TN opened up. Maybe someone else will know.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chief44, post: 5307749, member: 20280"] As far as TN goes, it really depends on what part of the state you were in. I saw my first Turkey at LBL in the mid 80’s. As a teenager, my dad and I deer hunted LBL quiet a bit during bow season. They had opened it up where you could kill a Turkey with a bow while deer hunting and I missed the first one I ever saw. My first actual Turkey hunt was in Houston county in I believe 1987 or 1988. At that time only the west end of Houston county was open to Turkey hunt. I was still in high school and had gotten permission to hunt a place on the west end of the county. I got there late and heard a bird gobbling his head of. I got close and tried to work him in but couldn’t get him to budge. After messing with him for what seemed like half the day, I finally got close enough to him to realize he was a tame bird in a pen. I felt like an idiot. I ran into another hunter on the way to the truck. He was laughing and said, “I guess you couldn’t call that bird out of that pen either”. He had apparently done the same thing before I got there. The next year, they opened the rest of Houston county. I remember it snowed on the night before opening morning and I killed my first gobbler with 2-3 inches of snow on the ground. I’m not sure when other parts of TN opened up. Maybe someone else will know. [/QUOTE]
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