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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am
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 No Spring Training trip this year For the first time in about four decades I will not be traveling south in March to turkey hunt the spring gobbling birds. Due to some wife health issues and some land ownership changes I am having to miss the Fla Bama Ga swing. It’s a tough change for me to accept this year. If you have read the forum reports since it’s inception you may have seen a lot photos of long spurs and swamp birds hanging from a limb. Not this year. Or at least not from me. Hopefully from others.
Hope to get out locally and maybe some other states but no reports forthcoming for March. Best of luck to any of you who are in fact in the south or headed there in the rest of the month. It’s a special time in the Deep South. Smoky mornings from woods burning, birds hammering on most days , wading swamps and looking out foe the cottonmouth and the rattlers. I won’t miss the last part very much this year.
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Vic
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Apr 27, 2005 7:40 am
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Location: Baltimore, MD
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Re: No Spring Training trip this year GN,
Sad to hear, both the hunting and the news about your Mrs. I feel your pain, my wife's check engine light lit up September of 2020. Still on the mend. My prayers for her quick recovery.
Vic
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Greyghost
King of Spring
Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:12 am
Posts: 2451
Location: Midland, VA
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Re: No Spring Training trip this year GN, sorry to hear about the wife will be keeping her in our thoughts and prayers.
I feel your anxiety about your hunts. Been there or actually still there. Missing annual hunts is hard, but I know myself were blessed with many years of hunts and new friends and for that I am grateful
Hopefully the wife will have a speedy recovery back to good health and your turkey tour will once again be an annual event.
Earl
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Roy S
Longbeard
Joined: Wed Oct 10, 2007 9:27 am
Posts: 198
Location: Daniels, WV (I hunt Floyd Co., VA)
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Re: No Spring Training trip this year Hang in there, GN
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Bigmeat
King of Spring
Joined: Wed Apr 20, 2011 11:23 am
Posts: 661
Location: Hagerstown, MD
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Re: No Spring Training trip this year Sorry to hear that GN, hope she is on the mend. My reason for checking in today was to see if you had posted your spring training trip. There at least 3 turkeys that got to see extra sunrises because of this, those turkeys will procreate and send birds far and wide. TN time is near, Good luck wherever you travel.
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am
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Re: No Spring Training trip this year Thanks folks. Tenn opens soon so I hope to have some stories and pictures soon.
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"even after almost a half-century of hunting of the noblest game bird I am going to confess that I am still in the kindergarten; and I doubt if any human being ever acquires a complete education in this high art."
- Archibald Rutledge
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tut
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Feb 28, 2005 7:28 am
Posts: 1181
Location: Hamilton, va
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Re: No Spring Training trip this year Tough stuff. Hopefully she is on the mend. Have had my own health issues that seem to be resolved. I'm planning on hitting the Va woods next weekend. Hopefully a few birds are around. Based on what I've seen and heard, bird numbers are certainly not what they were in years gone past. Certainly there are some pockets out there and as the old saying goes, it only takes one gobbling bird to make a fun day.
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WVBOY
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:33 pm
Posts: 3025
Location: Powhatan, VA
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Re: No Spring Training trip this year Just catching up on here.. sorry you didn't make it down there this year..
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