A few pix from past season opening weekends...Good luck everyone.......... 
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Turkey Opener this Saturday...2021
- Thread starter ilovesprig
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You sir definitely have your stuff figured out. Is that all public land hunting? I literally only saw 1 bird on public land in 5 years. I found tons of birds on private land and the reservation but nothing I could go hunt. Nothing more frustrating than spending hours and hours hiking and scouting and see nothing huntable then drive by park on the way home to see 8 Tom's strutting around
Jeff,
All these pix are from private or MCC...My first 2 or 3 seasons I hunted nothing but public and would get 1 jake a season (by choice not to shoot more than 1)...I'm a bass fisherman and know you got to fish where the fish are...Discovered early on that 40 acres of good private was better than 4,000 public here in SoCal...Even better if you have access to 40,000...
ps...When I hunt other states...It's 95% public...Whole different game...Mostly hunt solo.
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That makes sense. I had a few connections to private land that never worked out. Friends promised hook ups and when I asked to cash in on the access there were excuses why I could not go every time.Jeff,
All these pix are from private or MCC...My first 2 or 3 seasons I hunted nothing but public and would get 1 jake a season (by choice not to shoot more than 1)...I'm a bass fisherman and know you got to fish where the fish are...Discovered early on that 40 acres of good private was better than 4,000 public here in SoCal...Even better if you have access to 40,000...
ps...When I hunt other states...It's 95% public...Whole different game...Mostly hunt solo.
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One year I scouted for a month on private access that bordered CNF. I decided to camp out in my truck the night before. My buddy sent me a text at 8pm the night before the opener and said that I could not hunt that property on the opener. And the CNF area was basically land locked from this private property so I could not hunt the public land. He told me I needed to leave and be discreet about it. I think he never really got permission for me to shoot there. He expected me to be all talk and not go hunt there. It completely blew my game plan and I was not very happy about it.
I agree. Apparently his family member lived on a property that they did not actually own. The land owners came home the night before the opener and they liked the turkey's around and did not like people hunting them . I knew none of this till after I was told to leave. I was pretty annoyed with my friend. He could have got me in some real trouble
Thats why you have to have a writen authorization to hunt a private property.
@ilovesprig , I heard in San Diego County you can only hunt turkey till 4:30 pm.
Is that true?
I thought you would know.
BTW going out Tuesday morning
Is that true?
I thought you would know.
BTW going out Tuesday morning
5pm@ilovesprig , I heard in San Diego County you can only hunt turkey till 4:30 pm.
Is that true?
I thought you would know.
BTW going out Tuesday morning
I got a jake, called in, pass on him and he went up the hill, waited 30 min, call again, he comes running back in, let him pass, wait 40 min, call again, he came back in so, BOOM ! 
Jakes are stupid.I got a jake, called in, pass on him and he went up the hill, waited 30 min, call again, he comes running back in, let him pass, wait 40 min, call again, he came back in so, BOOM !
Congrats
Mark,
Congrats on your double...Boom, boom is a great sound
Congrats on the bird. Calling them in is 90% of the fun.I got a jake, called in, pass on him and he went up the hill, waited 30 min, call again, he comes running back in, let him pass, wait 40 min, call again, he came back in so, BOOM !
Mark,
Congrats on your double...Boom, boom is a great sound
