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pick your favourite adventure/hunt
Slim 9 (24.3%)
kit 15 (40.5%)
MJewell 7 (18.9%)
kc202 1 (2.7%)
DC_84 5 (13.5%)
Total Votes: 37
turkey contest #5
Topic Started: May 3 2008, 08:48 AM (392 Views)
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Slim
Opening morning I set up on some birds I had roosted the night before. With lots of hens the big toms went the other way and 7 hens a jake and the tom I killed came out to my setup. My smallest turkey but I decided to take him to try and get one with the bow. Sorry no pics. but his stas are:

19 lbs
6" beard
no spurs.

The second day I was setup in the same spot as opening morning. I was in my pop up blind with my Hoyt Katera. Unfortunately the birds didn't co operate and nothing happened. With it raining off and on. I put the bow away and decided to do some run and gunning at some of my other spots. Finally just before lunch time I located a tom out in a field. Patiently sitting in the fence row I called the tom in but he hung up. Unable to get a decoy out, I stopped calling. He worked in a little closer but still not close enough. Eventually he was started to lose interest so I decided to try and belly crawl a little closer. I was able to close the distance and harvest my second tom. I guess the archery tom will have to wait till next year.

22 lbs
8 3/4" beard
1 3/16" spurs

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kit
Well was sent home from work this morning on account of the rain....so hit my turkey spot on the way home and sat all morning from 7:30-8:00...till about 20 to 2...packed it in...as i was driving out i notice 2 tom's walking threw the field heading for the east property line....couple hundred yard's.....i brake the truck just as i'm coming out into the feild they are in...old un farmed fields so the ceder's are growing out into it...these bird's see me .....so made a quick decision and through the truck in reverse and backed back in where they could not see me any more and quickly get out get the sock off the shotty and get the shell's in quietly....then head down along the edge of the field under the concealment...(is that a word??)...at this point i'm not even sure that i did not spook them with the truck.....after a about a 100yds or so i start to head out to the thinner stuff to see if i can see them ....bingo...i spot one it is about 40-50yds out ...i step back in and skirt around a big clump of ceder's....then belly crawl the last few yard's....then get up on one knee..approx 30yds..he catch's my movement and stretches his neck out for a look....only thing blocking my view now is a big brushy branch on a spruce....shoulder the gun and start to rise up until that sweet spot is in view and let him have it.....BIRD DOWN.... woohoo .....here are some pic's..and stat's

18.5 #
7/8 and 3/4 spur's
10 1/4" beard ...if its only one ...not sure...if it's 2 the other is 10 1/8...

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Congrat's to all that have tagged.... :cheers:
Good luck to all that are hunting...... :cheers:
Kit

MJewell
Well headed up to my parents place on Monday in the rain, by the time I got into my hunting area the rain had already stopped. On my way pass my Dad's farm I seen the same three jakes as we had seen on Friday and the big gobbler standing in the corner of his field. Went on to his house as I had my ATV and trailer on so not much I could do with it till I got rid of it. When I pulled into his house he comes to the door and said that I to late as the big tom was at the farm and hour before, I proceed to tell him that it is still there with the three jakes in the corner. Hear is where a perfect hunt turns unconventional, Once we arrive back at the farm we can see the tom milling around the corner getting impatience waiting for the hens to get off there nests in the swamp. We drive the truck into the top of his barn and I get out as fast as I can and run for the swamp edge. Never even took the time to put any camo on just had the dark clothing that I been wearing on the way up. I get to the spot where we'd been seeing him walk by within forty yards pretty much every time he came to the water hole or to cross the field. I wasn't there even five minutes when I see my dad taske the truck out the gate and head down the road. The tom had turned and headed the other way to cross the road. when dad pull down the road the turkey decide to get the heck out of there and come my way. AT that point I heard my dad yell "get ready here he comes". I peaked around the tree I was standing besides to see the tom at 40 yards and closing quickly. He continue right on the same path as always right past me at around 20 yards. I let the 870 bark and he went down in a heap.

Not like I like to take them but that bird would never answer calls or come to them from what we had ever seen.

Bird stats:
Weight 22lbs 10oz
Beard lenght 7 1/2 inches
Spurs 1 1/4inches

My heaviest turkey to date and largest spurs and sharpest ones that we have ever seen.
Anyone know how to age turkeys I guessed him at around 3 1/2 to 4 1/2 years old.
No pics right now, as I forgot my camera got to wait on my mom to get her 35mm film develop. Will take pics of the beard and spurs along with the fan and post later.

Matt

kc202
His first picture with downed bird, he can't wait until he can pull the trigger on one of his own but he'll have to wait a little while longer. I shot this bird on Saturday morning around 6:20, he come in all by himself shortly after leaving his roost. As you can see shot a little high on him. I was set up on small open pasture field about 50 yrds from where I hunted Friday morning and killed a huge pine tree right next to a nice Tom!!!! The stats on this bird were 21.5 #, 7/8 and 1"1/16 spurs, 10.25 beard.

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DC_84
Headed south from Thunder Bay for my first ever turkey hunt... Had a lot of chances, but didn't connect until the second day...

This guy began gobbling what seemed like kilometres away and kept getting closer until everything got silent for a half hour and he appeared 40 yards away...
My first turkey...

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The last day of my hunt everyone wanted to meet for lunch, but we decided to give it one last shot... Walked into a crown bush and set up each on the opposite side of a tree and within twenty minutes he came running in and we still made it for lunch...
My second turkey...

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I am hooked and can't wait for next year...

Dustin
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