Spring Turkey Season Rolls On In The Lowcountry

The excitement of turkey season continued this week as we pursued big gobblers with four of the NYPD’s finest. For three mornings we hiked them around our beautiful lowcountry, called like crazy and really had a blast. Unfortunately it was a rough couple of days for turkey hunting, and between the wind and the fog, it just really kept the birds tight lipped. Only Ted killed a longbeard when Marshal, our Quaker Boy pro staff guide, used his best tricks to pull his first turkey in on their last morning. All of the others heard and saw birds, and a there were a couple of real close calls; just no other kills. But that is turkey hunting.

Along with the NYPD crew, we also had four NC hunters as well as two bow hunters down from MN who spent their afternoons going after the hogs. Jack from NY was the first to shoot a big pig followed by Rob who killed his while we were turkey hunting when a pack of 25 come trotting by. Quite a few others saw sows with small pigs while Jerry, our MN bowhunter who was down with his son Jason, had several shot opportunities on hogs but just didn’t drop the string… he said that he was enjoying his hunt to much!

I also need to congratulate Henry on putting Jeff with our PA group that started turkey season with us on a nice bird before they left. That put that group 4 for 4 on the redheads! Congrats to PA group member Foxy as well for killing a couple of real nice boars over on Boggy Creek during a morning sit and to Bob Jr. for shooting a nice hog on the River tract while they were here.

I am now waiting to get the pictures of a couple of real nice hogs that a young man and his dad killed on Saturday night, and I will get those up along with the details of our two Maryland turkey hunters as soon as I can.

Jeff