2019 Spring Turkey

[ChickNorris]

Hehehe

[sniper7]

Silly little Jakes!

[Hummer]

Mini dinosaurs. Mrs. Hummer sees them several times a week now commuting the Peak-to-Peak and down Lefthand Canyon to Boulder. This morning off Lee Hill Road she watched a flock of ~20 hens and Jakes with one magnificent displaying Tom. Unfortunately they are almost always on private land or county land which is closed to hunting.

We'd like to attract turkeys to the yard but if we put out cracked corn it will ensure more bear visits. A week ago we were visited at 4:20 a.m. by a big bear standing against the kitchen window. The next day I reconnected the electric bear fence. Too bad that it also keeps out turkeys, grouse, deer and moose.

[def90]

Mini dinosaurs. Mrs. Hummer sees them several times a week now commuting the Peak-to-Peak and down Lefthand Canyon to Boulder. This morning off Lee Hill Road she watched a flock of ~20 hens and Jakes with one magnificent displaying Tom. Unfortunately they are almost always on private land or county land which is closed to hunting.

We'd like to attract turkeys to the yard but if we put out cracked corn it will ensure more bear visits. A week ago we were visited at 4:20 a.m. by a big bear standing against the kitchen window. The next day I reconnected the electric bear fence. Too bad that it also keeps out turkeys, grouse, deer and moose.

Mirrors my experience this year. Have seen turkeys but they have all been on unhuntable land.

[Hummer]

Mirrors my experience this year. Have seen turkeys but they have all been on unhuntable land.

I meant to quote your earlier post. Boulder County is a tough nut to crack for hunters given the checkerboard of private and public lands. It's made worse by the continuing (theft) acquisition of larger properties by the county, particularly in the mountains and any agricultural land. Unlike the original laudable goal of parks and open space purchases to protect riparian corridors, the bureaucracy is further eating up private properties wherever they can be taken and using public tax money to take them. The landowners are either pushed out to sell or into "conservation easements" through excessive taxes and regulation. If you look at many of the recently acquired open space properties they are not in sensitive habitats. They are scattered everywhere throughout the checkerboard where they will eventually dominate. These open space properties add to the prohibited access lands the county overseers now own, and a result is that the properties are no longer on the tax rolls, adding to the tax burden for any remaining county landowners.

The goal of the communist state is to be the sole possessor of property and life itself.

[whitewalrus]

I haven't even tried yet this year. I am not seeing very many on my game cameras this year either. There were a lot of coyotes running earlier and I think they were hard on the flocks. I may try for this weekend though.

Guess you need to have a coyote hunt then

[hunterhawk]

Tuck Furkeys! Im giving up for the spring! Couldn't get the suckers to come in close enough! Dude would not leave his 3 hens and only one tom was heard this morning. He hung up at 70

[CS1983]

Tuck Furkeys! Im giving up for the spring! Couldn't get the suckers to come in close enough! Dude would not leave his 3 hens and only one tom was heard this morning. He hung up at 70

Bow?

[hunterhawk]

Yup bow, I have shot lots of turkeys with my bow in Michigan and Nebraska but I am having the worst luck with Colorado turkeys. I will admit i probably haven't hunted in the best spots Colorado has to offer but I have been on birds everytime I just can't get them to seal the deel. Im thinking its a combination of always henned up and always seems like twice the amount of hens per toms/jakes so not much competition or I just haven't found the fighters yet..... i dont know. Frustrated!

[def90]

In general where are you hunting? I’m new to turkeys in Colorado as well but my experience is that so far this year I have seen turkeys all over down in the flat lands mostly along river/creek corridors, haven’t seen any up in the foothills.

I’ve seen them in various places in the past in the foothills though this year now that I am hunting them I have not seen them in those places. Wondering if the amount of snow we had this year has been an issue.