r/Californiahunting

I took my first ever turkey this morning and immediately noticed it had what looked like three wounds that were scabbed over on both breasts and one leg. But I’m not really sure if these were from fighting or something else. I’m really hoping to eat this bird being my first one, but don’t want to take a risk. Pics show the wounds and what it looked like when I cut these sections out. Obviously I am cutting around these sections and discarding, but not sure if it’s still too risky to eat the remaining bird. Thanks.

A big step in the right direction, and hopefully a stepping stone towards eventually getting a spring tag! Congrats to all of the groups who pushed so hard for this. Even if you dont hunt bears, we can all celebrate an expansion of hunting opportunity in CA.

https://krcrtv.com/news/local/california-hunters-can-now-take-up-to-two-black-bears-per-season-under-new-rules

Wanted to put together a little display and I’m stoked with how it came out. Just waiting on the last fan to dry.

The good ol' LTT 1301 got a good one shot one kill at 25 yards with Hevi-Metal #2. It was either the LTT or the Citori XT Trap, so I took the LTT lol

Stellar's Jay's were having World War Bird in the trees the whole 3.5 hours I was there.

Can’t find these guys in the field, but there they are 10 ft away when I walk around the neighborhood…

Wow, best turkey hunt experience ever!

Highly recommend KYNCY outfitters, I did a "cast and blast" trip with them. Day 1 Nate Kyncy taught me how to use a wet fly fishing set up and we drifted down the Sacramento River and caught and released many wild steelhead.

Day 2 wake up at 4:45am, put on camo and a headlamp, and ride e-bikes in the dark on the forest service roads to a patch of private and the guide got access to. The father and son took turns calling in the turkeys. Around sunrise we had three hens come in and feed for awhile as close to 30 yards to us and they never noticed us!

After a couple of hours or so of me having a tough tough time sitting so still and quiet, the gobbler came wandering by nice and slow, I waited till he was sideways about 15 yards and lifted the gun and pressed the trigger as soon as the bead was lined up between the Turkey head and body and double beared turkey down!