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May 20 2008, 07:00 PM Post #1 |
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footedshaft #2 Got out at 4:45 Sunday morning. My plan for the morning was to run'n gun. Wait till i heard one then rush to setup on him. As it turned out this bird gobbled 150 yds from where i was standing. I got set ( almost too close, about 50 yds) and listened to him gobble his fool head off.I gave him 3/4 tree yelps and he cut me off so i knew he had acknowledged me. When he finaly pitched out he landed about 45 yds from me. I wanted him closer and was sure he would commit pretty quick as i heard no other hens for him to run off with. After a little cat and mouse with him leaving and me purring on my pot call to get him to come back, he finnaly broke and came off the slight ridge he was on. At 31/32 yds he stretched his neck out to look around for his "hen" and i unleashed my second 3" #6 Rem HD 20 ga load of the season. I had it all wrapped up by 6:20 in the morning. It was an awesome experience listening to him gobble. I bet he gobbled 125 times that morning before i killed him. His stats for those who care, 21 lbs 7 oz, 9 1/4" beard and matching 1 3/16" spurs. Bill ![]() ![]() Team Tenpoint well i dont think i could have asked for a better season and i will let most of the pictures do the talking. ![]() This picture is from opening morning....thanks to Tommy and b-mobile (our decoys), my 2 year old Tom and my buddies jake didnt really stand a chance. ![]() ![]() Here is my 2nd Tom i shot on April 29...here is a gobbler we like to call a sneaker tom. This boy gobbled his face off in the roost, but as soon he hit the ground, he would not call for the life of him. After about 15-20 minutes of waiting and not calling, i could hear him strutting and drumming, so i sat back and let the 2 hen and full-strut decoy sucker him in to 18 yards until i let him have the rockets. He weighed in at 20 pounds even, with two 8 3/4 inch double beards and 1 inch hooks....a very respectible 3 year old. ![]() Here is good friend who's properties i hunt i every year. We called this tom in along with his brother. They put on quite a show. My buddy made an perfect shot at 55 yards after they hung up and would not come an closer. THis bird weighed 19.5 pounds, with a long , thick 10 inch beard and 3/4 inch spurs. I already want the 2009 season!!!! Hope everyone is having just as much fun, and lets see more pics! TTP2 MJewell Well headed out on Monday by myself for a afternoon hunt managed to call in four Jakes and even get drawn back on them without the use of a blind, the first jake that round the tree was going to be in for a surprise. When he did get to the tree, he was less then 4 yards from me and only showed his head for a faction of a second before sounding the alarm on me. Pack it up and headed to another spot that we had been seeing two other birds at. When I got there the farmer had put the cows out to pasture there but it never brother me and off I went. Did a big cirlce to get to where I expected the turkeys to be at that time of the day and as I approched I seen one slipping through the hardwoods ahead of me. waited till it had moved off and slipped in even close to the field edge to hear birds gobbling coming my way. Quickly through the blind up and set-up only to watch them past out of range in the field waited for 15-20 minutes as they walked back past me still out of range and continued on. packed up the blind on move out to the edge of the fiels and quickly setup again as the birds were still gobbling. gave afew calls and they ansewered right back so I sat there and played with different calls the whole time. Finally came to my slate call that I have never used that much, and I gave some quite clucks on it and within 5 minutes I look up to see a big tom strutting about 50 yards from the blind. worked him at that disance for about 15 minutes before he closed the distance to 25 yards but I nevr had a shot at him as he'd kept some brush between him and me as he worked off I looked around to see some hens and other coming in so I ready myself againand the all past by me at 25 yards again never giving me a shot either in that bunch there was 7 hens 2 jakes and another smaller tom. SO the day closes with me getting to full draw four times and not getting a shot off. Birds seen 2 Toms, 6 Jakes and 8 Hens. Tuesday May 6, 2008 Hunting back with my hunting partner on his grounds in the Minden area. Nevr got out at first light for watching my three year old Daughter, but my hunting partner headed out to a spot he had permission to hunt had had seen two toms the night before. Once my hunting partner arrived at the farm there was three different birds respond to his owl hoot. he quikly covereed some distance in the dark and got set-up about a hundred yards from where the birds were roosted. he had both of his decoys out as he too was trying to harvest an bird with the bow and arrow. Only problem was that he neverr had a blind to hunt from making it that much difficult to draw on the birds. just at daylight 2 hens and three Toms made there way towards his setup. They did everything they could to tease my buddy just outside of his effective shooting range, the birds never came any closer then 45-50 yards. He was to meet me at the Tim Hortons in Minden at 6:30, but he'd already told me that if he was working a bird that he wouldn't be there at that time. He never showed up to pick me up till close to 7am. He proceeded to tell me his story and inform me that the birds were still in the field when he pick up his decoys and not once did they spook. The only problem that he did have was the fact that there was horses in that field an they seemed to like to try and eat his decoys and that is way he had left with the birds still in the field. Feeling that there was a good chance that we could still get back on to these birds we headed back out to the same farm but setup on the oppisite side of it as that is where the birds had seem to like to go for the afternoons. This time we had my big Ground Max blind to hide in so that it made it easier to draw on them. when we were getting setup you could hear them on the far field gobbling away. We sat there for about 20 minutes maybe alittle longer and the birds seem to be getting farer away so we decide to move on them an close the distance. we closed right in on them and they had already crossed a fence into another neighbouring peice of property made afew calls an got one gobbling back at us, we quickly made our way to the top of a knoll in the field and setup before we were done the bird was already halfway to us both of us were pumped we know we were going to have the chance to take this bird with in five minutes he was in the field with us about 40 yards from us displaying to the decoys. He quickly closed the distance to just under 20 yards and I told my partner to go head and take him. He told me there was no way that he could as he was shaking to bad, he told me if I had a shot to go ahead and take it. I drew back on my Reflex Growler and settled my 20 yard pin right where he arrow placement should be and released. Please bare in mind that this is the first turkey that I have ever shot at with the bow and we were shooting through the shoot thur mesh of my blind another first for me. At the shot my buddy said it went 6" over his back, so he quickly came to full draw and sent another arrow on it way it to flew over the birds back. By this time I had another arrow nocked an ready again we both agreed that the arrows were shooting high once they went through the mesh so I hit full draw again just as the bird cleared an lone Maple in the middle of the field at 20 yards I let that arrow go too only to miss him again that time my hunting partner said that it was just above his back. The whole time this was going on the bird never spooked and just walked back into the bush, we sat there decussing what had just happen when I looked up and seen the seem bird circling out in front of us in the hardwoods and making his way back to us. I nocked my last arrow and said to my buddy there is no missing this shot if he gives me another chance. He soon walked out into the field at 28 yards with alittle talking from my slate call an offered me one last shot This time I was shooting down hill at him so I used my 20 yard pin and aimed right where the arrow placement should be. At the shot you heard the definent smack of the arrow and the bird jumped into the air and flew down the field about 80 yards and lit and took off running through the hardwoods. Neither one of us could just believed what had happened we ran down to where the bird had entered the woods ansoon found a small blood trail from him. Having had no experience with bow shot birds I said lets play it just like an deer and give him some time an back out. We made our way back to the blind and retrieved the other three missed arrow from the field so that the horses wouldn't be hurt on them. At that point we got rid of some gear and took up the blood trail with in 70 yards of where he entered the woods the trail took a sharp 90 degree turn once I looked ahead I seen a lone evergreen ahead I said to my buddy he'll be right there, I approached slowly and seen him laying under the tree but couldn't make out wether he was alive or not so I figured heck give him another just for good measure. I drew back and release and another hit but this time he flapped afew time and then out from under the tree he came and took off at a fast walk over the next knoll out of our sight. We regrouped once again not believeing what was happening. This bird just didn't want to die. after afew minutes we started to head in the direction he had went this time there was no blood as it had clotted when he had lay down under the evergreen tree. So, we started doing a grid pattern in the general direction that he had went. It tok us over an hour to finally find him again but this time he had managed to gett into the thick stuff along a swamp edge were shooting the bow was pretty much useless. By this time you could tell he was getting very weak and we just want this bird dead. I did managed to get a couple of shots off at him only to have twigs deflect the arrow before it got to him. Just as we were getting up the nerve to rush him I finally seen that I had a clear shot at him from about 10 yards back and I let one last arrow go at him and struck him right on the point of the wing breaking it and passing most of the way through. Not the prettiest end to the bird, but was glad that he finally found him and never just wounded him and never retrieve him. upon plucking him found that the second shot had just creased his back as he had been laying right on his side not sitting with his feet under him. If I would have known that I would have shot from a different angle and ended it all right there. Not the cleanest kill but I got him in the long run and two hours after the first shot. So, I'm done for the season and know we are trying to fill my hunting partners last tag and we are still going to be trying the bow with it. My birds stats: 20.4 lbs one spur 1/2" right side 8" beard Onmedic Well, i went out this morning thinking it may be my last chance at filling my tag for this seson due to work, academic commitments and a new baby boy on the way in June or end of May i think. So, even a jake would fill the bill at this point. I setup on a plowed field edge. I have been hunting green fields but nothing has been coming out in them until the afternoon. I've been seeing birds in the morning in plowed cornfields and heading to dusting areas. I was in a similiar spot the morning before but the birds flew down, didn't even look at my decoys and headed to where some distant gobbling was going on. This time i was setting up right where they were flying down. They had no choice but to look at my setup. It was quite light out when i heard my first gobble and it was way way off, not a noise from where they were roosted the previous morning. I was getting worried that they hadn't roosted there. I started second guessing where i had setup and maybe i should start slowly heading towards the gobbling. I had to get aggressive and make my own luck. I tried a crow call and they gobbled immediately, 3 birds at least. Before i moved i tried a soft yelp....... Gobble ........Gobble, right off my left shoulder. I was staying put!!!! Now are these birds just going to take right off and head to the other gobblers? I wasn't going to let that happen. I did a few more soft calls and then cut myself off with a jake gobbler, they all lit up again. I gave a couple fly down calls, waited for them to stop gobbling , then i gobbled with some real agressive cutting after that, then i gobbled everytime they did. To my surprise some hens starting cutting, real loud, real agressive. The contest was on. I tried to out do them, they were now coming hard. I figured the toms would be in tow. While peering over my shoulder i caught some movement out infront of me near my decoys. 3 jakes were approching fast, but so were the hens and still spitting mad. I had to quite calling. two hens arrived with jakes and were getting real close to the decoys. The setup was going to be blown any second when the decoys don't respond. More movement approaching the decoys, two more birds coming in. One was running, another jake, and one just walking fast, he'd do a half strut, walk, half strut walk. he didn't have a big beard but also didn't have a real predominant step in his fan, granted he wasn't at full strut, then he started gobbling. Was he a 2 year old with not a great beard or just a dominant big jake? The hens were right at the decoys, a slight breeze gave my bob n head jake some movement which was perfect timing. The other hens were real close i could hear them walking, too close to look and see if a mature tom was with them, i couldn't wait any longer, two of the jakes turned and started to leave. I gave one cluck, his head came up, i lined up the fire sights on my Super X2 and squeezed the trigger (yes, shotgun, long story) He did a back flip, birds scattered everywhere. The hens behind me started screaming out the alarm putt, i leaned forward out into the field and saw two more birds running back into the woods, i swear i could see the big beards swinging as they ran about 30 yards away. I counted 9 birds. I have no idea where they all came from? I've haven't seen anymore then 3 birds together. When i got up to my turkey it was clear to see that he was just a good sized jake. His fan does not have the real dominant jake tail that the other birds do around here, and by not going to full strut i couldn't tell. It didn't matter. My tag was filled. The hunt was absolutely awesome and what a lesson i learned in calling, i wish i would have had it on tape. This was the best turkey hunt i've had and it was a jake. On the way home i drove by another spot that i have and saw two very large toms in full strut on a fence line, no hens to be seen. I know where i'm going with bow if i can get out again. My turkey had a 5" beard, and weighed exactly 16lbs. As i write this, i found out that our OB doc has now taken my wife Gail off work until she delivers. . She feels fine, but is also a paramedic, and there just isn't any type of work that she can do at this point. Soooo. I'm off to get another tag. I will be out hunting hard with the bow Saturday and Sunday, and my dad has agreed to be the camera man.What an awesome morning.. ![]() fishnhunt With little time during my busy season at work I managed to coax this two year tom close enough for a kill shot. 21lbs 10 1/4" beard and 15/16 spurs. This fellow was looking for love and came in real cautious, there is a BIG TOM still out there. I was chasing him last year and thought this was him but not. Awesome hunt and a great bird in the bag, hopefully I'll catch up with boss tom later in the season.
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. She feels fine, but is also a paramedic, and there just isn't any type of work that she can do at this point. Soooo. I'm off to get another tag. I will be out hunting hard with the bow Saturday and Sunday, and my dad has agreed to be the camera man.



9:47 AM Jul 11