Dedication in the Hunt.....

[Adrian J Hare]

I just wondered how far would you go, to get to work that Gobbler ?

Lets say that you hear a gobbler ,, gobbling his head off, He sounds Hot and he is across a small river/creek/crook that flows through the property , but the river is far too wide to jump and the water is knee high , its going over them boots for sure as soon as you wade in and your getting wet feet. The season shuts down at 12:00am noon and at the time it is 9:30 am. Would you chance it and cross and get wet feet or would you move on to another place that is a little dryer ?...BT



I love them with Long Sharp Spurs....

[Feedman]

I would get my feet wet and go after him.

[Boss Gobbler]

I have never taken a turkey by just giving up. Chase him till you cant chase him nomore.

[KYhunter]

I am stayin' dry. I'd try to call him to ME. I am more dedicated to the HUNT than the HARVEST. Besides I have done the wet feet thing and STILL not harvested the bird. I'd head home with a smile on my face and stop by TheMart for some waders for the next time. If the bird wins, so be it. It makes me more determined to be better prepared and wiser for tomorrow.

[CPA Hunter]

Take off my boots and pants if need be -- wade the creek and then put my stuff back on and HUNT!

That reminds me of another similar situation, but for fishing. I once remember having lake I could fish as a kid that you could not really fish from the bank and I had no boat at the time. We striped down to under wear and waded up to our chest casting and catching. After we fished we dryed off and walked home. But as a kid in MS I was not as afraid of much but now I'd be to afraid of cottonmouths.

[turk2di]

If it's legal and safe[^]Im doin it[:D] A turkey has to get up pretty early in the morn to put me behind the[8] Come to think of it, they do get up pretty early in the morn[:0] Heck, plottin and scheming is half the fun[;)]

what u get out, is what u put in

[Ky Headhunter]

I'd do like CPA, strip down & cross then dress again. Unless I didn't think I had that kind of time, then I would just get wet. I've been soaked before chasing turkeys, and even though I have decent rain gear now, I'm sure it'll happen again. Of course we're assuming the stream is SAFE to cross.
Good chance I wouldn't take him home anyway, but it would still be a good memory. "Hell kids, I remember crossing a raging stream in my fruit-o-the-looms just to get to a gobbling turkey!"

[Huntaholic]

Ditto CPA, in fact Ive been there and done that more than once.

[ez]

depends on the temperature outside and the temp of the water........i've already gotten up to hunt turkeys w/a thick frost on and if the water temp is any where close..........i will wait for another day......ez

[GSP]

2 springs ago, I did the take the shoes/socks, wade, put shoes/socks back on over wet feet. I changed my thinking. I know hunt in brown tennis/hiking shoes. My feet now get wet 2 minutes after gettng out of the truck vs 1 hour later. At least I can walk them dry and have a lot less weight to carry around.

[schuyler olt]

This year in Ohio I bellycrawled about 70 yards in a ditch that had about four inches of water/mud in the bottom of it--I did have the sense to leave my vest and calls behind before I started that folly--trying to get on a gobbler strutting and then breeding a hen. But I'd rather do that than another episode of going hell bent for leather through the mesquite in Texas trying to get around and in front of a bird. Man that hurt.[xx(] And anybody who has spent any time hunting pastures has surely had the experience of setting up in/on a cowpie. But the absolute best is hunting knee deep in the Florida swamps and becoming very aware that you are NOT the top of the food chain.[:D]

[schuyler olt]

Adam,
I don't think turkeys will ever be astronauts, because they sure don't like to venture into the great unknown. But if they can see where they want to go, and the coast is clear, they'll cross big obstacles. Last fall I shot a hen out of a flock that was ten yards from the Ohio. One of the hens flew to Indiana, and then flew back to Kentucky about ten minutes later. Down in Texas, birds would roost on one side of the Frio River, and fly down to the other, which was a good 300 yards. In Colorado, the birds would pitch down off the ridge top to the canyon bottom waaaaay down below. On the other hand, I've seen a single strand of wire hang them up, and I saw a turkey gobble back and forth for almost an hour along a two foot high by maybe two feet deep drainage ditch in the middle of a pasture. Go figure. That's why them boys is such fun to hunt.

[Multidigits]

I've done the naked stream crossing in Alaska several times. I don't think I'd break ice water and do it for a turkey, but did for a moose.
I'll tell you this, it takes balls to make that first step into the ice water. Problem is, after you do it, you can't find for at least an hour after you get out. All in all, it's better that wear wet clothes all day. Up there, it takes days for things to dry out.

[RDL270]

My motto has always been whatever it takes..... long as its legal...

[raktrakr]

i guess id have to get my feet wet. im sure it would be a lot warmer than it was at that 25 degree ft knox hunt last year. wouldnt you say multi?[:D]

raktrakr
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[Multidigits]

A man got to do what a man got to do. I told you to wear big boots!!!

[CPA Hunter]

I would have LMAO to see that Multi!

[GSP]

CPA, he still talks a little low, you think they
still might have not fallen back down in place???[:D][:D]

[Multidigits]

That ain't all, I've got video of three of us bathing in the lake in Alberta after wrestling bears for a few days. This was about 30 days after thaw out, and still some ice chunks floating around. This was a quicky bath at best. You walk to the end of the pier, jump in, get out as quick as you can, lather up before you dry off, then repeat it all to rinse off. Very refreshing!

[MRDUKS]

Neither rain, sleet, or snow so I would have to go.