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| Tweet Topic Started: May 20 2008, 07:06 PM (324 Views) | |
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May 20 2008, 07:06 PM Post #1 |
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Love2Hunt Let me say the experience was awesome, loved every minute of it. Specially enjoyed the company..Thanks Terry.. Hope to hunt with you again sometime.. It all started at 1am in the morning. Waking up, showered, packed up the car and out of the door by 1:30am. On the road with now coffee.. 2:40am reach my destination, waiting for Terry. Terry arrives, pack his truck, and I buy coffees. He programs his TOMTOM, and we're on our way. We get there, and lights are out. Our host finally gets out of the door, and showes us where the turkeys were roosted, Terry picks a spot and we setup. Our host had chores to do.. heheheeh sucker... We wait, Then Terry softly calls.. He tries his sexy calls to jump start the Jakes and Toms. Finally after 15 to 20 mins, "Gobble Gobble "from behind us in the other field.. Crap, how did that happen... He must have roosted in the other field with hens. Cause He didn't come over to our calls.. Aftera while we decide to head out and walk to spot some turkeys. After walk we head over to the other field where we heard the GObble Gobble, looking for a spot to setup, and me not paying attention to Forest edges, and I always pay attention to forest edges, well, we got busted, "blbolbobllbobolb"..crap there goes a hen and either a TOM or a Jake.. . Ok..we find our spot and setup. and We call, and call and call some more.. nothing.. So we walk the fields carefully for some turkey and we head back to our host. He brings us to his uncles property. While walking to out spot, we were as they say Glassing the field" nothing. We reach out spot and setup. Terry calls, and calls.. nothing.. After a while, we pack it in. The turkeys were not responding, the whole thing is out of wack, something has screwed up the turkeys this week.., well we walk back to the farm house, and wouldn't you know it, we spots hens..damn it, no toms or jakes... crap... We drive our host back to his place, we chit chatted for a while.. We thanked our host and head back home.. Lessons I have learned: 1) be better equiped. The only thing missing was a Turkey vest with those seats attached. legs fall a sleep when you're sittting in a position for a long time, very annoying.. . 2) even tho, i didn't bag a turkey, I still had lots of fun, specially hunting with awesome company.. 3) TOMTOM is an awesome unit, need to get myself one.. 4) need to find property quick so I can fill up my tag, heck, I'll even take a jake.. Coyotechaser #2 Went out this morning and after getting setup a bit late, a Gobbler finally came in. I ended it at about 40 yards.......19.2 lb, 9 inch beard and 1 " spur, other one was broke off. Pics to follow! And I called him in with my Gobblestalker slate call! I love this thing, it works amazing. ![]() ![]() ![]() Crash First Bird 22 pounds 1 1/8" & 1 3/16" spurs 10.5" Beard ![]() Second Bird 21 Pounds 1" & 7/8" Spurs 10" Beard ![]() Onmedic #2 Well here he is, once again not a monster but good in the freezer. I went out this morning knowing that bad weather was coming in for Sunday and probably my last day out for the season. I was hunting out of my ground max blind and using the shotgun, yes shotgun, got my rest on lastnight, just not enough time to shoot a bit to make sure everything was working so i took my winchester. At 05:55 the bird that i had been watching the past few days started my way through a cut cornfield and he had a friend. They came to about 40 yards from my setup. Too much underbrush and stuff in the way. I just couldn't coax them into my decoys. I had my video camera with me so i decided to move it out a side window and film the action that i was anticipating. When i went to reach for my camera, there was already a turkey at my deocys. He jumped up and let my hen have it, yup the hen, not the jake. he knocked it over. The other two birds started walking away, i tried calling but couldn't change their minds. I was busted. I turned back to this guy. He actually stomped on my jake. He realized the bird wasn't real and started out of there. I made a 25 yard shot, back of head walking away, he dropped and flopped. This is a weird looking bird. 2 years old i figure. He still has a bit of a step in his fan but has barred feathers, all the way to the tips, definatley not a juvenile based on his wings. His beard was 7.5" on the nose and he had3/4" spurs. Like i said not a menoster at all, but a nice bird anyways. I really got to get some pics in the field. This backyard stuff is killing me. I moved over a bit from the last one, bench is in the background now. Oh almost forgot, he weighed 18.4lbs ![]() Rutman I'm done now, just calling for the rest of the season. Two toms came in silent, not strutting. They passed by my blind at about 5 yrds. I took the first one because I thought they would see me lift the bow. It weighed 20.6 and had a 10.25 beard and a 2.5 beard and 7/8 spurs. the jak hammers and zwickey's performed well. I had to put an O ring behind the zwickey fo more drag with the carbon shaft. I'll post sme pics as soon as I get the disc made. Good luck everyone! |
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