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[js4fn]

Good story onelessarrow
Everyone one thinks wood lots are so peaceful lol if they only knew

[onelessarrow]

Good story onelessarrow
Everyone one thinks wood lots are so peaceful lol if they only knew

lol, no kidding. As much as I wanted to get out of there, I had no idea how desperate this guy was and didn't want any scenario where this guy somehow gets my gun from me. I suspect the police felt the same as they left a couple of officers sitting right beside me.
By the way, there are some fantastic birds entered this year. Congrate's to everyone on their success

[GW11]

lol, no kidding. As much as I wanted to get out of there, I had no idea how desperate this guy was and didn't want any scenario where this guy somehow gets my gun from me. I suspect the police felt the same as they left a couple of officers sitting right beside me.
By the way, there are some fantastic birds entered this year. Congrate's to everyone on their success

Congrats my friend! That's one crazy story!

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[Turkeyjohn]

Attachment 40277Attachment 40278Attachment 40279Been a crazy week for me in the turkey fields.
I got a nice Tom tonight with 1in 1/16 Spur and a 10in. Beard.
It was the third time with my safety off on this guy in the last week.
I also had the safety off on 2 Tom's that have been my main target birds up until a crazy event happened on Monday.
I was after the two Toms Monday afternoon, they were in a field beside a large wood lot and the previous day's of scouting told me that they were travelling to the next field and then work their way back into the woodlot before 7.
I parked in the woodlot and walked the long way around and managed to get setup in the top end of the first field without spooking any birds. Within 15 minutes a hen comes out of the woodlot crosses the field and joins the other turkeys in the field next door.
My confidence level was Sky High.
Just then I hear a guy behind me yell hey buddy. I looked behind me and see an opp officer running towards me, clearly winded, asking me if I just saw a black man with a beard and light coloured track pants run by. I was like, hell no. I was thinking to myself you got to be kidding me.
I explained that it was all fields to the east and I could see a mile and the birds havent spooked. So he had to have went West through the wood lot.
The officer takes off through the woodlot. Multiple cruisers pull into the top end of the field and park beside me on the other side of the tree line. They felt bad for me that this character was ruining my hunt. Then the k9 unit pulls in. The sound of this dogs bark was wild and hearing that sound knowing he was after you would put anybody in a fetal position. Crazy. Wasn't much I could do but wait and watch the birds take off across field after field. Lol.
After a couple hours they caught the guy.
I had a feeling the turkey gods were going cut me some slack, I got this guy tonight while he was alone on the top of a ravine. I got underneath him and brought him to the edge with some soft burrs.
Theres some video on mykawartha.com of the guy fleeing the opp on hwy 115.

LH Beretta A400
Semi 12g
Beard 10"
Spur 1 1/16"
score= 93

Now that's a cool turkey hunting story that won't soon be topped. Holy Moley, Glad you were finally able to connect on a bird, I think you were owed one...

TurkeyJohn

[onelessarrow]

Thanks GW11 and TJ.
For sure.
It's amazing how many ups and downs there are in turkey hunting. Lol

[tom gobble]

Story and pics in the other section. Tagged out bitter sweet. 20 pounds 3/4 inch spurs 8 3/8 beard
Long beard XR 3.5 inch #5s
Carlson regular turkey choke
Beretta A400 unico
score 71.875
Two bird total 177.25 now its time to fish and get my friends on some birds

[Lenny]

Well, after 3 weeks we have some great additions. Updated leaderboard is below. finsfurfeathers posted up the best two bird total, and will be hard to beat, ironically both birds scored exactly the same! tom gobble is still hanging onto the individual lead with that triple beard bird, and onelessarrow survives a police chase and still gets his bird! Oddmott also tagged out, and is in the running to win his own donated prize back! Congratulations to all.

I won't tell you about the beauty tom I missed yesterday because I am still too busy replaying it over and over and over. I do know that the thermacell and bugspray will be in my vest for the rest of the season.

LEADERBOARD:
1 tom gobble - 105.375
2 finsfurfeathers - 101.25
3 finsfurfeathers - 101.25
4 jw8 - 95
5 eddy22 - 91.875
6 onelessarrow - 92.5
7 Dilly - 87.5
8 Oddmott - 85
9 Species8472 - 78.75
10 parkcity - 78.125

Two Bird Totals:
1 finsfurfeathers - 202.5
2 tom gobble - 177.25
3 Dilly - 147.5
4 Turkeyjohn - 100

[Turkeyjohn]

Had a great hunt yesterday morning with the Wesley...
Had scouted a spot Saturday morning and heard a bird working back and forth just inside the tree line along a hay field, only glimpsing him for a short view, couldn’t really see how big or beard length...
Asked Wes that night if he was interested and with the forecast being better for Sunday than Monday a plan was hatched.
We get into our spot right at dawn, and silence...not a noise...eventually a doe comes along and snorts at us before flashing the whitetail and bounding away...
We decide that there was nothing doing right there, so we move closer to a grain field in the hopes he’s there. We’re creeping through the woods and we hear it, a gobble, but it’s a ways off. We find a spot at fields edge and I work the box call...he answers almost immediately and I knew we were in business...
This goes on back and forth for only a short time, every time I touch the call he answers...
Then from over a roll in the field we see a red head and he’s motoring... only stopping long enough to gobble... I just give enough of a cluck to keep him coming...he’s running and strutting, backlit fan with the dawn sun behind him...really wish I had tried videoing... he keeps coming, I ask Wes if he was ready to shoot he says to get him out of strut... I click once more, he stretches his head out and Wes plasters him at 40 yards...no decoys, but this guy was on a string...
1/4 inch spurs, 3 1/2 inch beard, but a full fan, and gobbled like a Tom, but only 14 1/2 lbs...
Wes is tagged out and grateful for it, early mornings catching up to him, can’t keep up with old Dad...
A great season comes to a close, more lessons learned, but awesome
TurkeyJohn







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[tom gobble]

Nice bird guys congrats

[CD94]

Finally got a bird down for this season this past Saturday. Was a great hunt. My brother and I actually doubled and each had a bird down all before 7am.

1 1/4" longest spur
10 1/2" beard
Shotgun

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