[Ghost]

Tommorows the first day for Virginia Spring turkey.....My Buddy and I are headed to Augusta county National forest land....Its going to be cold..possibilty of snow....It aint lookin good...But were headed down anyway...we may just run into one..who knows..Gotta get up at 3am and its already 11:30 pm..

[PSUHunter]

Yup goooood luck!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ghost]

Hoyt...

Man..I tell ya..I saw coyotes tracks all morning long in the mud.....I only heard one bird...and there was 3 or 4 hunters on him..so we backed out...we covered about 2 miles of terrain..Not much sign....It was definetly not a good day...but it was still nice to get out.

[Ghost]

Finally got a chance to get out and hunt some Spring birds...My Buddy and I got ontop of the Mtn. at first light..We heard 0 birds...Figured we'd let things warm up ..so we sat for awhile..as the sun started warming the woods..we started moving..did alot of listening...We then got a gobbler to answer..he wasnt too fired up...so we patiently waited till he was ready..that took about an hour...Once I got him located as to which bench he was on..my buddy and closed in on him..we got to about 50 yards..I worked him with the Box call for about a half hour..He slowly came into range..about 20 yards.

He Had 3 beards

[Ghost]

Looky what else the mtn. gave us today....Funny thing is tho..I only found 4 and my buddy found over 80..I just dont have the eye for the Black morels..He was gracious enough to give me a batch of his share

[Old Timer]

Congrats Ghost Good looking gobbler, anyway you can get a close up picture of those 3 beards, sure would like to see them.

[Old Timer]

Ghost wrote:

Looky what else the mtn. gave us today....Funny thing is tho..I only found 4 and my buddy found over 80..I just dont have the eye for the Black morels..He was gracious enough to give me a batch of his share

DRY LAND FISH!!! Now you are makeing my mouth water, I have been looking around here for some but no luck so far, may be too early. Enjoy they are really good.

[Ghost]

Thanks OldTimer..

Here's a pic of the Beard..The Long one is about 9.5 inches and the little ones are about 3 inches...weird..never got one like that before this one

[Old Timer]

Thanks for posting that picture Ghost, You can be very proud of that one.
Looks like I better start hunting my ol home state agin, looks like you boys are doing very good down there, keep it up.

[Ghost]

What's funny tho..The Biggest mushrooms were growing up through a dead deer carcuss..We picked em anyway..just cleaned off the deer hair and they were fine...I ate em last night ..they didnt kill me....yet ..that is

[Old Timer]

I was out on Monday and found some dark ones, they were just starting to come up, they were only about 2" high, I am going to check them today they should be just about ready.