Its turkey season in Illinois! Fresh plowed crop fields, may apples growing and lilacs blooming all add up to that time of year!
There’s no sound quite like the first gobble of the morning setting off a chain reaction along the creek bank.
Below are some harvest pics…more to come! And a struttin tom from Wagner Wildlife!
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Lance Eldred ties together turkey hunting and mushroom hunting on his Morgan County farm!
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Rick Zichmiller sent this photo of a jake in Lisle, Illinois – 40 mins outside of downtown Chicago… he was walking the parking lot at 1:00 p.m. on Monday 4/26.
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Toby Stay helps Laramie Hughes from Pennsylvania score on a gobbler!
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Jesse Stay scores on his first spring turkey hunt!
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Tony Smotherman, the Travelin Hunter, harvests a Tennessee Gobbler with his CVA Optima Elite!
Investment…
Yep, we leveled another gobbler on our investment. I bet there are not many people across this country that can say that same phrase.
This is the second gobbler that has hit the dirt in as many weeks on ground that my wife and I have bought for an investment in our future. Instead of spending money on Wall Street and hoping that it grows with someone else handling it, we watch our money grow as the land climbs in price every year, and, as an added bonus, we watch food plots grow and a few critters too.
I bet after this tom hit the dirt you could not convince my wife that this farm was not a good investment!
Go out and find next “investment”!
Tony Smotherman
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I attached a pic of Misty’s first gobbler in 3 years. She shot it Saturday. We were heading to our food plot mid day doing a bit of calling the whole way in. We got to about 50 yards from the entrance when this bird and his buddy cut us off. I ended up calling two hens and two gobblers to 25 yards and she shot the strutter. The other tom hung around for awhile but I let him walk so that maybe one of the boys could go back after him another day.
It was a great day!
Tony
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