My wife Stephanie and I drove two hours to the San Antonio International Airport to fly to Colorado Springs. We were both excited to hunt turkey in Colorado as neither of us had hunted them there. Things started off slow at the airport because we had two problems.
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It seems like every morning we try to hunt a roost here in Kansas there is a serious lightening storm in our way. This morning we walked into a field about ¾ of a mile to where we had roosted a bird. Just when we were about to owl call to him the lightening started popping all around.
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Day 1- We woke up early and went into to town to meet with the land owner. After meeting him we got in the truck with him so he could drive us to different properties around the area. I can't begin to say how many turkeys we saw but well over fifty on out first drive down I-80.
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From the Mellon Creek Outfitter lodge to the Coronado National Park entrance was a 953 mile drive. We arrived to clear skies, moderate temperatures, and 55 mile per hour winds. I thought for sure the tents we were sleeping in would blow away.
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Jon Gloor, was new to turkey hunting when he accompanied Jimmy and me to Florida this year. We thought that he would make a good guide for MCO so we took him along to see if he might be interested in turkey. He was, so once we got home we started showing him the ropes.
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The next group was Walter Parrot and Jerry Martin with Bass Pros 100% real hunting. Jerry and Walter do a TV show at Mellon Creek every spring. These two guys are great turkey hunters and great guys. I always love going hunting with them because each time I do I learn a little more.
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Huntonly was the next group. Steve Johnson, Tom Bateman, and Jason Mills showed up for their turn on the screaming rios. The weather was bad the first morning with thunderstorms and rain. With the bad weather came quiet birds and the ones we did hear wouldn't cooperate. That afternoon we set up and called; heard a few and even had one close but never sealed the deal.
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Pete D'Amour MD from Indiana was my third client. I'd hunted Pete before and we have become good friends.. Pete loves turkey hunting and is a real pleasure to hunt. On the first morning we went to a new area and tried to shock some birds. We knew birds were in the area but I never could get them to gobble. We moved and set up where I knew birds
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The second clients arrived from east Texas. Jeff and Nicholas, a father son combo was ready to experience turkey hunting. Jeff had been once, this would be Nicholas' first time and neither had ever taken a turkey. It was important to Jeff that he see his 11 year old son take his first turkey; so, on the first morning they wanted to hunt together. We went out the evening they
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First clients arrived and I couldn't wait to get into the turkey woods. A husband and wife from San Antonio, Tx that seemed just as anxious as me to get after it. After scouting for the better part of a month I had a god idea where the birds were. After Tim and Sue got settled in, we drove down to where I wanted to hunt to find where we
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I had an evening without clients so I went to a friend's place to try and get a turkey for myself. I set up at an intersection of two main roads running through the property. At this intersection there were tracks and strut marks all over. I thought with this much sign; this intersection would be as good a place as any.
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North Dakota's spring turkey season runs April 9 through May 15, and along the way thousands of hunters will spend some of the best days of spring scouting, sneaking, sitting and calling turkeys along rivers and streams, and in valleys and woods.
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