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Droptine 7 (17.9%)
Swamp haint 3 (7.7%)
dewy 3 (7.7%)
outbackruddz 18 (46.2%)
shedaholic 8 (20.5%)
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Turkey contest #4
Topic Started: May 3 2008, 08:42 AM (386 Views)
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Droptine
The alarm went off at 3:00am this morning and I had no problem getting up! Like most of you, I was pumped for opening day and wanted to make the most of it! I was at my set up at 4:00am, but decided to sit and listen before I put out any decoys and settled back into my natural ground blind. Just before 5:00am the first gobble rang out along the treeline! The gobbling was sporadic until I heard some hen talk then all heck broke loose. The whole treeline lit up with gobbling and I knew my hunch on where to set up paid off!

I purposely set up farther away because the corn stubble was so high and I knew from scouting that the birds quickly travelled to the field I was set up on. I knew I would have to wait awhile for them to show up, but the wait was worth it. I decided not to put out the decoys because they were heading in my direction and wanted to be able to make a quick location change if needed. I did a few clucks and purrs on my pot call to let them know I was waiting for them!

After a lengthy gobbling performance, things went quiet and I knew they were on the ground. Though I couldn't see them, I could hear the odd yelping and gobbling and could follow their progress towards me. At one point I heard some fighting purrs as well and knew they were close. Soon, on top of a ridge I saw 2 jakes chasing each other and fighting. As I glassed them I spotted movement behind them and a large group of turkeys appeared. I never did get an accurate count but there were many hens, jakes and longbeards!

I started cutting and yelping with my mouth call and almost immediately a group of jakes charged towards my set up. I backed off of the calling and they still came within 20 yards of me! Soon they lost interest and went off to search for a hen. After a bit I got back on the mouth call and 2 longbeards broke strut and started to head in my direction! Luckily for me, the largest of the 2 was a little more eager and after standing awhile and looking in my direction for the source of the hen talk, he broke into a run and came right in like the jakes before him. I stopped him at 20 yards with some cutting, centered the crosshairs on his waddles and the Winchester roared! The Winchester High Velocity load with #5 shot put him down with barely a twitch!

Much to my surprise, the other birds kept up their socializing and strutting, and the group of jakes came back briefly to put a beating on my downed bird!

What a great way to spend a morning!

23lbs
11" beard
spurs both just under an inch but very sharp!

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Swamp haint
Opening day was very slow. Birds weren't vocal in our neck of the woods. Hit a couple spots then around noon me and Dilly hit a bush that I've seen birds at all year.
We would hit the hemlocks and see if we could cut a bird. After only a couple of minutes we strike up gobbles (x2) and these birds are headed our way. 2 jakes appear and we pass ( a double would have been a given).
Another gobble on my side of the tree and a big scarlet headed bird is meandering right towards me. He actually jumps up on a fallen tree to have a look and poses perfect shot, which I take. 2 hens that had followed him in hang around until I walk over to him.
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Weight-21.2 oz
Beard-9 3/4
Spurs- 7/8 both

dewy
Went out this morn with a good friend of mine and set up in a winter wheat feild. One of my best spots. We had a lot of toms and jakes struttin but nothing would come in for us, there was too many hens around. I actually saw for the first time a tom mount a hen(that was cool). anyway after the hens left the feild the one tom was ready to answer my calling. He came in struttin and yellin and when he got close to the decoys I pulled the trigger. 25 1/4lbs 1 1/14 spurs and just shy of eleven inch beard. Thats my best,
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Anyone else do well today?

outbackruddz
Got out this A.M. and the birds were goin' crazy on the roost. At least 7 or 8 different birds were soundin' off. I glassed the treeline on the far edge of the field I was huntin' and saw a Tom in full strut on the limb of a tree. That's somethin' I've never witnessed before. Pretty sweet. Once the time felt about right I let out a few soft yelps and a short while later he responded and about 2 mins later he flew down into the field and started his journey over to me. I took him about 5 mins to close the gap from 400yds to 40yds. As I peeked out the side of the blind I could see him standing as tall as possible and I figured he has now spotted the lone feeding hen decoy I had in the field. Then I hear a loud snort and foot stompin' from right behind me. Almost had one of those trouser cleanin' moments right there!!! ;D I heard the deer trot away and the bird just stood there watchin' the deer, then back to the decoy, deer, decoy, deer, decoy.....this went on for a couple of mins. Then I hear more gobblin' comin' from the field and sure enough about 200yds behind him is 3 birds in strut, 2 jakes and 2 hens. He started to turn to go back to see what they were doin' so I yelped a few times on the ol' diaphram call and he turned and committed and crossed the fence row about 15yds infront of me and hung-up in the raspberry cane for awhile then continued on through. Once in the field on my side of the fence he started to walk quickly to get around the decoy. Once he slowed down to a walk I let 'er fly at 28yds and my arrow caught him right below his R wing and after a 30yds dash he was down and out!!!!! Man that felt good to see him go down. While I was breasting him out I decided to check the damage of my shot. I stuck my finger in the entry hole and I could actually feel his heart literally rollin' around in his chest cavity!! Giddy-up!

Here's some stats and pics.

21lbs

9.5" beard

L spur 1 1/16
R spur 1 3/16

Outbackruddz 8-)
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shedaholic
First year ever turkey hunting, and first day none the less. Well here we go.
Saturday night Valleylad (from Ontario Hunting Lodge) and I head out down the road to try and put some birds to bed, well it worked perfectly we watched as a big tom and four of his hens headed into a small piece of bush near last light.
Well from there a plan was executed on where to set up.
4 am came fast, I met up with Valleylad at 5 and we set up not a minute after we had both set up each taking half the field and the big boy gobbles from up in his tree.
At about 5:30 they were starting to hit the ground. They were at the back end of the field, and the gobbler went silent for a couple minutes. Next thing we know due to the fog him and his four hens are a mere 45 yards away.
As soon as I saw him I started to shake that big boy strutted right past my main window following the boss hen allowing no shot so I went to the side window, and he finally stopped strutting for a second, but that was his mistake I already had him lined up and BOOM! he was done for.
Valleylad and I were like to pigs in a big dirty puddle! We were so excited that someone had finally knocked down a big TOM!!!
He weighed in at 16 pounds which we found weird because he felt/ looked heavier, but he had a 9 1/4 inch beard and matching 1 1/4 inch spurs.
It was AWESOME!
Enjoy.

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Shedaholic
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