Had a meeting with a hunter in the Yucatan today and this was on the wall.

[left field]

Hell of a bird.

[mowin]

3 minutes ago, left field said:

Hell of a bird.

Love the colors of the ocellated turkey. 

[dmandoes]

U hunting an ocellated?

[left field]

I think I missed the season but these guys are setting me up for next year. And waterfowl.

 

[Dr Juice]

Awesome. Good luck with locking it in.

[2BuckBizCT]

go for the Mexican slam!
 

• Grand Slam — All four U.S. Subspecies (Eastern, Osceola or Florida, Rio Grande and Merriam’s)
• Royal Slam — The Grand Slam plus the Gould’s (found in Mexico and limited areas of the Southwest)
• World Slam — Royal Slam plus the Ocellated wild turkey (found in Mexico and Central America)
• Canadian Slam — Harvesting the Eastern and Merriam’s in any Canadian province (Ontario, Quebec, Manitoba, Alberta or British Colombia)
• Mexican Slam — Rio Grande, Gould’s and Ocellated wild turkey harvested in Mexico only
• U.S. Super Slam — Harvest one wild turkey subspecies in every state except Alaska

 

Edited April 25, 2023 by 2BuckBizCT

[left field]

If I do them all in one week do I get the CanadianMexicanUSWorldGrandRoyalSuperSlam?

The guys also had a dozen mounts from Africa, all with bow, as well as a full mount bow world record Brocket deer. It was a huge little deer.

Should have taken more pics.

[2BuckBizCT]

3 hours ago, left field said:

If I do them all in one week do I get the CanadianMexicanUSWorldGrandRoyalSuperSlam?

The guys also had a dozen mounts from Africa, all with bow, as well as a full mount bow world record Brocket deer. It was a huge little deer.

Should have taken more pics.

Africa is lame IMO. But regarding the turkeys, I would gladly shake your hand and listen to your stories while drinking alcoholic beverages. I will NOT wear a mask. 

[left field]

Just now, 2BuckBizCT said:

Africa is lame IMO. But regarding the turkeys, I would gladly shake your hand and listen to your stories while drinking alcoholic beverages. I will NOT wear a mask. 

Disinfectant at least?

[2BuckBizCT]

3 minutes ago, left field said:

Disinfectant at least?

I'm willing to wash my hands with organic fragrance-free soap, but I won't use those jelly squirt sanitizer things.

[phade]

I got to FaceTime with Rob Keck when he got an ocellated Turkey in Mexico a handful of years ago. One of our buddies was filming him. Pretty cool conversation. The hunting conditions were pretty sweaty as I recall it. 

[Skillet]

17 minutes ago, 2BuckBizCT said:

Africa is lame IMO. But regarding the turkeys, I would gladly shake your hand and listen to your stories while drinking alcoholic beverages. I will NOT wear a mask. 

How do you figure Africa is lame?

Been there?

[left field]

Just now, 2BuckBizCT said:

I'm willing to wash my hands with organic fragrance-free soap, but I won't use those jelly squirt sanitizer things.

Deal!

[left field]

Just now, phade said:

I got to FaceTime with Rob Keck when he got an ocellated Turkey in Mexico a handful of years ago. One of our buddies was filming him. Pretty cool conversation. The hunting conditions were pretty sweaty as I recall it. 

You have no idea how sweaty this place is in May/June. I'm now on a four shower a day schedule and planning to introduce a fifth soon. Buggy as hell too.

Apparently the teal hunting is a big deal here.

NYT article:

Quote

OUTDOORS; AN EXOTIC LUXURY

By CHARLES MOHR

FEW pleasures are so satisfying as one that is anticipated.

That dictum seemed especially true as I stood in a jon boat, concealed by the waxy green leaves of freshly cut mangrove branches. Venus hung like a spotlight in the eastern sky as a barefoot Mayan guide, whose distant forebearers had accurately plotted the wanderings of that planet and built a temple to it, blew a twittering call through a hole drilled in a beer bottle cap. In the dim first light, flights of ducks cupped their wings to land in our mail order, plastic decoys.

I have hunted ducks from northern India to the Manitoba prairies. Like most modern hunters I usually shoot, quite literally, only a handful of ducks.

A February trip to the state of Yucatan in Mexico provided a novel exception. I had long wanted to hunt in that country, with its large wintering populations, favored geographic position at the end of several North American waterfowl flyways and its generous bag limits.

Hunting only two or three hours a day in the vast mangrove lagoons on the northwestern coast of the Yucatan peninsula, I saw thousands of ducks, watched scores swing over my decoys every morning and shot close to my limit of 15 birds a day. Although there are remarkable similarities in wildfowling anywhere, a Mexican trip provides a kind of exotic, if mud-splattered, luxury that a frost-bitten American duck hunter can come to love.

 

[phade]

2 minutes ago, left field said:

You have no idea how sweaty this place is in May/June. I'm now on a four shower a day schedule and planning to introduce a fifth soon. Buggy as hell too.

Apparently the teal hunting is a big deal here.

NYT article:

 

Yeah, it had to be 4-5 years ago but I just remember our buddy and Rob talking about how miserable the conditions were for hunting in general with the heat and humidity. He was close to water and I guess that made it a multiple factor worse, too.

Showering has to be one of those experiences where you get out and feel like you need a shower by the time you’re done dressing.