Thanks Tom Gobble and Markster.
Congrats Tom Gobble nice Tom, good way to finish the season, bittersweet though as you still want to go out.
Will take some of my friends and do some calling for them
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Thanks Tom Gobble and Markster.
Congrats Tom Gobble nice Tom, good way to finish the season, bittersweet though as you still want to go out.
Will take some of my friends and do some calling for them
Was out Friday although didn't actually see any birds got a couple gobbles in the morning and for the first time heard a gobble early afternoon. Felt a change in the mood of the birds and figured sooner than later they'll really turn on. Got out this morning and got settled into my my spot just before legal. The first gobble sound off almost instantly. Slipped the gun out at legal and loaded up. Let out a couple of soft yelps and the birds sounded off. made out four toms and at least a jake spread out infront. The spot is a cross road of paths on a ridge in the bush. Birds tend to use the paths to cross the woods so got lined up down the path towards the closest sounding gobble. As the dawn broke saw what look like a hen drop from the trees about 70-80 yards in front. That's when the show really started. Always amazed how bad live hens call. There was a chorus of yelps and loud cackling coming from a bunch of hens that got me thinking too much/too loud. The various toms were sounding off trying to cut the hens off to their direction. This went on for what seemed forever alot of audible action however no visual as the bush has greened up quite a bit. Things settled down and the birds seemed to drift off in different directions away from me. Things got quiet and had me thinking should I make a shift to the back door to catch the birds as the come around from the back side. Decided to let out a soft yelp to check my status and was reward with a close gobble coming from behind. Did a quarter shift around the tree to cover the path coming up the ridge. No sooner spotted a bird crest the rise. He half strutted and I couldn't make out the tail nor was able to see a beard. Figured must be a Jake but at this point any legal bird was coming home with me. He kept coming and as he did a quarter turn could see a decent beard dangling from his chest. The bird was less than 20 yards from me and was actively looking for the hen he heard from below. Got me regretting leaving the decoy in the jeep as could of used the distraction. I was buried in the shurberry and he wasn't able to make me out thing was really didn't have the gun up yet. Had to wait till he got behind a couple of trees and got into position. Almost on que he stepped out from behind the tree and stood at attention on the path for his picture to be taken. The gun sounded and he dropped like a rag, all that remained was to wait for the flopping to stop. What seemed like forever was all done by 6:45 am. Got to love turkey hunting when the birds want to play. Going to add pictures soon unofficial measurement looks like 15/16 inch spurs and 9 1/2" beard. figure a score of 37.75
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Congrats Finsfurfeathers sounds like you had a great hunt
Congrats FFF on your bird .
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thxs guys. Funny thing that wasn't the most interesting thing today. Got home to find out there was a man hunt being done in the neighborhood. Dozen police cars had the area quartered off with cops and dogs going from yard to yard looking for a suspect. Got a strange look from the cop that was infront of my house as i pulled the shotgun out of the jeep good thing had it in its case.Quote:
Originally Posted by tom gobble
great story, and a real nice bird, must be nice to have such action. I finally saw a hen on Friday, no gobbling.
Yes it is , though having suffered (as if being able to get out an enjoy the outdoors considered suffering) 7 hunts without any interaction its about time.Quote:
Originally Posted by sabmgb
Tom #2 down yesterday morning and tagged out for the spring. This was a perfect roost hunt which rarely works out the way you planned but fortunately did this time. I saw 2 toms around 7pm Saturday evening and had an idea where they would be roosted. Went towards the spot I had seen them on Sunday morning and waited til the gobbling started. I set up about 200 yards from them across an open pasture and set up my jake decoy. The 2 toms gobbled a fair amount on the roost, flew down, and headed directly my direction. 5 minutes later they came right in and started beating up on my jake decoy. It took almost 5 minutes before they separated enough that I could get a shot. 2 more jakes showed up shortly afterwards and came over to have their turn beating up on my decoy. This caused the other tom to come back in and run the jakes around. All in all it was almost 30 minutes before I could even go get the bird I shot and made for an entertaining morning.
8 1/2" beard
3/4" longest spur
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Congrats CD94, nice way to tag out
Now that's a great story, and tagging a bird is a bonus,Quote:
Originally Posted by finsfurfeathers
Congratulations Triple F,
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