Home Forums Birds & Dogs Turkey Hunting Not alone in the turkey woods!

Springtime is snake time where I hunt. last year before daylight I eased in on a roosted gobbler before daylight and decided to set up by a big oak. Took out my little pen light and shined it before sitting down. By golly a coiled copperhead not a foot from where I was ready to plop down. It was a perfect spot so I put my boot on it and cut off the head with my knife and kicked it out of the way. It took a several months for the smell of that snake to get off that knife. Turkey came in behind me....never got a shot.

Angus has nailed 3 coyotes during turkey hunting.

I've got this one and a couple more:

I

See: Nobody Hunts My Property W/O Permission

Rattlesnake bites are extremely life threatening to humans. Obviously not all bites create the same effect but I have yet to see one where the patient wasn't in cardiogenic shock of very close to it. Without supportive therapy and crofab(anti-venom) you could very easily die. Copperheads and water moccasin are typically not without anaphylaxis

Mennonites are my worst problem....lol. The idiots don't turkey hunt like you're supposed to, and they will really fugg you up.

In the critter department, I've killed several coyotes that came in to a yelp. Have called up a bobcat, but not very close. Have had friends call them right into their lap. I've turkey hunted for 30 years, and have never seen a poisonous snake, and I have hunted in country where they are. Hope I never see one.

Rattlesnakes are bad where I hunt. I got struck one opening day mid morning about halfmile from the truck. I literally just picked up a deer shed...took one step and was hit. Could have been my hand. Thank goodness for snake boots. The year before I set a decoy out two foot from a rattlesnake I never saw until I was crouched down beside him.

I popped a coyote last year at 40 with some #6. Dropped him in his tracks. We also get some up close and personal encounters with some big hogs. Nothing like 4-500 pounders walking 20 yards in front of you and all you have are turkey loads. Had one about 200 lbs last year running across the powerline straight towards us and saw as at the last minute before he jump in with us. A turkey load to the ribcage is where its at on a hog, it knocks the breath out of them and they can't get up, just walk over and finish them off.

Did some mowing yesterday and bumped 3 longbeards, hoping for a good season.

I killed a hog while turkey hunting. It was feeding on acorns about ten yards away and when it turned its head broadside I put the bead of the Benelli at the base of piggys ear and sent two ounces of Hevi13 6's on the way. Dead pig...

I’ve called in coyotes, black bears and bobcats while calling spring gobblers. Been a long time since I e called in a human hunter, and I haven’t called in a Sasquatch yet.

Steve

I've had coyotes come in right on top of me, and also a guy who had come stumbling through the woods on public land. Tried to get his attention with everything but a shout, at least until his loaded gun was pointed at my decoy, and in my general vicinity. He never saw/heard me, and was scared to death when I decided to get up and tell him what I thought about the whole situation.

I was turkey hunting with my 10 year old son one time when we see a guy across on another ridge walking the neighboring property fence line hunting also. I struck my call once and he stopped. I struck it again and here he came.
He crossed over our fence and started slipping down the ridge on us. I took it as a great opportunity to demonstrate to my son just how dangerous hunting, and turkey hunting specifically, can be.
I called the guy all the way down a mule faced ridge and into the bottom before I gave up the gig. I done the old "shave and a haircut" sequence on my box call and he knew he'd been duped at that point. He turned around and started climbing back out.
He never did know where we were even at. But he knew Good and well that he wasn't supposed to be where he was at either!
My son still talks about that and thinks about it often when ever he's hunting.
If the tresspasser had slipped in behind us we could of had a much different experience.

I killed a big male yote, at 12 feet! he was comeing right at me, and a young guy I new, asked to try turkey hunting on our place, my tag was filled so I told him a spot to sit. No decoy, he had a big Bob cat jump right on top of him! he got 3 long cuts to his arn and some camo ripped up! hes never went turkey hunting again, far as I know!

The woods I hunt are covered up with black bears but I have never had one come to a turkey call, however I have called in several coyotes and a few bobcats over 30+ years of turkey hunting......Hb

Coyotes come to the turkey call so regularly that I often used it to hunt coyotes. Bobcats are the worst, they are sneaky and before you know one is around he's in the blind with you. Fortunately, they will smell you when they get that close. I've had them spook me often, but haven't been chewed on yet.

I put out a decoy before daylight in an open spot I thought the birds would make their way to after fly down and moved to a spot at the bottom of a big oak tree. Before I plopped down I took out my pen light to check for a possible snake since I had seen a couple the day before. Sure enough there was a copperhead almost exactly where I wanted to set up. I remembered an old Clint Eastwood movie, "Two Mules for Sister Sara" where he stepped on a rattlers head and severed it from the rest of its body with his knife. I thought if Clint can do it I can do it. So, took out my knife and stepped on the copperhead and cut off its head and kicked it out of the way. Birds went another direction that morning and the knife is on the back porch because it has a real funcky smell even after washing it. Wonder if Clint's knife smelled too?

After having a copperhead kill a vole not three feet from my big butt one year, I'm pretty carefull about where I place my feet (and azz) in the Spring woods.

The vole crawled out of the timber slashings I was sitting against while calling and just sat there. I looked back at him a couple minutes later, and he was stiff. Then I saw the snake that killed him behind him. Broke my heart to do it, but a $3 Heavy Shot Turkey load did the trick on him. Now I carry a .22 revolver with a couple shot loads first up in "rotation".

We have 'yotes, both cats, and bears around, but I've yet to see one in the woods I hunt.

Man! Maybe that's why I only hunt up North, I HATE snakes! LOL!

I'll take snakes, yotes or bears instead of the ahole who bumbled into the woods this morning(opening day) at 5:30 am on a full moon clear morning and busted all the birds I've scouted for off the roost

That sucks! Sorry to hear it!