Whats your motivation?

[bvoss]

I love to see feathers fly, I love to spend time with family, I love to be outdoors, but the thing about turkey hunting that draggs me out of bed is hearing em GOBBLE. What say you?

 

[Baxter83]

Too much to type.... :D

 

[Stoner]

I like to watch that sun come up every morning and listen to the gobblers and hens talking to each other getting the morning started. I say a pray of thanks for every morning that I am in the turkey woods.

 

[medwc]

I do love hearing them hammer as you call them in but for me it is the challenge of the hunt. I hunt pulic land only and most of the time it is a challenge to get to the bird first and then the duel with the bird. I can never get enough, regardless of weather, location or other huntiners. I just love it!!!

 

[bvoss]

I think the woods at dawn would be a great place to take people and tell them about the Lord. From my perspective, that would be one of the hardest places to deny that there is a God.

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

I think the woods at dawn would be a great place to take people and tell them about the Lord. From my perspective, that would be one of the hardest places to deny that there is a God.

AMEN brother!!!

 

[JFields101]

Agree with bvoss and Grizzly..plus got plenty of motivation to kill my first bird :)

 

[VolDoug]

The gobble. If they ever stop, I'll quit.

 

[Setterman]

The chess match, if it weren't for the strategy sessions in the woods I would quit. Trying to use terrain, foliage, etc etc to get into perfect position is what it is all about for me. Physically pulling the trigger means nothing, and is an unfitting end for a longbeard, but I follow through the same as the rest with the killing.

Also, I spend all winter grouse hunting the same areas I turkey hunt, and love to see the woods go from barebones dead of winter through spring green up.

In the words of Will Primos....."There's just something about it", that gets me out of bed every morning during April and May at insane hours.

 

[Lawrence]

The challenge
and I like collecting beards and spurs

 

[jb3]

Just love to hunt and spend time in the outdoors. Doesn't matter if it's rabbit, sq, deer, etc.. or even if it's just hiking through one of the state parks. Just like being outside.

 

[jackscreek]

I love everything about turkey hunting in April. :grin: I can't decide if April or October is the best month to be in the woods. I have even learned to accept the rain, mosquitoes, chiggers and ticks! :o Daylight gobbles send chills up my spine, but my biggest satisfaction is talking a going-away longbeard into coming to check me out. :cool:

 

[cruff10]

The Gobbles, the challenge. The flowers, the ramps, the Morels.
the springs is the best time to be in the woods imho.....

 

[jackscreek]

the springs is the best time to be in the woods imho.....

By golly, I believe you're correct! :cool:

 

[user 972]

I love to see feathers fly, I love to spend time with family, I love to be outdoors, but the thing about turkey hunting that draggs me out of bed is hearing em GOBBLE. What say you?

If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand. :grin:

 

[nate17]

The gobble. If they ever stop, I'll quit.

X2

 

[tickweed]

Strutting,spitting,drumming gobbling!

 

[CopperHead77]

I think the woods at dawn would be a great place to take people and tell them about the Lord. From my perspective, that would be one of the hardest places to deny that there is a God.

AMEN brother!!!

I'll second that Amen!

 

[muddyboots]

I love to see feathers fly, I love to spend time with family, I love to be outdoors, but the thing about turkey hunting that draggs me out of bed is hearing em GOBBLE. What say you?

If I have to explain it, you wouldn't understand. :grin:

Yea i cant tell anyone why i like it. You just had to be there.

 

[Cuttin Caller]

Dawn breaking just over the hill side.
Looking in the trees trying to figure out if those are turkeys on a roost or a pile of leaves.
Listening to the owls or the donkeys and cows.
Sitting next to or crawling in cow poop.
Listening to the turkeys while they still on the limb.
The fly down.........then the chase is on.

I just love Turkey Hunting period. I also love sharing my hunts and experience my friends getting a longbeard.

I love turkey hunting.

Oh did i say that already?

 

[Harvester]

That time of year is heaven on earth. Can't be beat.

 

[TN Deer Slayer]

The chess match, if it weren't for the strategy sessions in the woods I would quit. Trying to use terrain, foliage, etc etc to get into perfect position is what it is all about for me. Physically pulling the trigger means nothing, and is an unfitting end for a longbeard, but I follow through the same as the rest with the killing.

Also, I spend all winter grouse hunting the same areas I turkey hunt, and love to see the woods go from barebones dead of winter through spring green up.

In the words of Will Primos....."There's just something about it", that gets me out of bed every morning during April and May at insane hours.

Couldnt have put it better myself setterman. Pulling the trigger is just the nice frosty finish for me. I have let birds walk on because I thought they were just beautiful, I just couldnt pull the trigger. But just knowing I beat him at the little chess match we were playing is victory enough.

 

[CopperHead77]

I have let birds walk on because I thought they were just beautiful, I just couldnt pull the trigger. But just knowing I beat him at the little chess match we were playing is victory enough.

Well said.

The only part of turkey hunting I hate is after the trigger is pulled,and it ends..killing a big o'l struttin,gobblin, drummin butterball just almost seems wrong..almost :grin: what Setterman said about it being an unfitting end is so true. Long live the Longbeard :)

 

[CopperHead77]

Heck,I just love listening to the owls laugh and carry on.

 

[bvoss]

[/quote]
Couldnt have put it better myself setterman. Pulling the trigger is just the nice frosty finish for me. I have let birds walk on because I thought they were just beautiful, I just couldnt pull the trigger. But just knowing I beat him at the little chess match we were playing is victory enough. [/quote]

If its a jake, sure, if its a longbeard, he doesn't get a pass. Or at least hasn't yet. I agree they are very beautiful to watch, but seeing that head jellied is too tempting for me.

 

[Anonymous]

I like to eat fried turkey breast.

 

[4onaside]

What's my motivation? How about I don't need any motivation to go turkey hunting! LOL I needed motivation to get up every morning and go to work, when I was working. I occasionally need some motivation to get dressed and go to church,when it is so much easier to stay dirty, unshaven and drink coffee. It seems to me that most of us have answered with what they LIKE about turkey hunting, not what motivates us. I doubt if any of us actually need any motivation to pursue the sport that we love.

 

[spitndrum]

The THUNDER!

 

[showmehorns]

The chess match, if it weren't for the strategy sessions in the woods I would quit. Trying to use terrain, foliage, etc etc to get into perfect position is what it is all about for me. Physically pulling the trigger means nothing, and is an unfitting end for a longbeard, but I follow through the same as the rest with the killing.

Also, I spend all winter grouse hunting the same areas I turkey hunt, and love to see the woods go from barebones dead of winter through spring green up.

I couldn't have said it any better, so I won't. THIS is why I hunt them.

 

[harley 2008]

I love the sounds of spring. The owls hooting, crows and turkeys gobbling. The first sounds of the birds in the morning. When I hear this, It makes me think life is good.