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Marksman
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Congrats to all
HERE IS MY Double Bearded Indiana Jelly Head
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Buck
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Great birds everyone!
Heres mine.
16.5lbs
5:30PM
Taken by spot and stalk.
20ga SxS, shooting Rem HD
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"Girl at party: Hi, my name is (enter random girl name here), where are you from?
Me: Double-cluck greenhead shaved-reed reward-band blue-phase-ross bigfoot spit moan..."
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Button Buck
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NE oklahoma birds
1. 19lbs-9" beard-7/8" spurs
2. Jake double
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Woodsman
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5/1/08 6:00AM The 10ga strikes again
5/1/08 7:00AM
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THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS, SHAL NOT BE INFRINGED
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THERE IS NO GREATER DELICACY THAN YOUR OWN HARVEST
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Buck
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season's over here... heres a few:
25lbs 3oz
11inch beard
1 1/2 + 1 5/8" spurs
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double beard
main beard 10 3/4" 2nd beard 4"
spurs 1"
17lbs
fighting holes
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boy's bird i take hunting:
19lbs
10 inch beard
1 inch spurs
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another boy's bird:
9 inch beard 3/4 spurs
18lbs
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Woodsman
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Here's my #2. Little 2 year old. 16 lbs, 7 3/4" beard, 1" spurs.
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Button Buck
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Tracker
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guess i'll put my pics and story here too
let me start with this being said. My son and I have been hunting turkeys for the past 3 years now, always coming up empty handed. Either luck came over us like a tidal wave, or i learned a few things over the dry years.
missouri youth turkey season
Day1:
Matt and I get out in the blind at 5am, get ourselves set up and wait till the first gobble of the morning. i started with some light calling every 5-10 minutes for about 1/2 hour or so. we were hunting in the timber, so visibility is very limited. out of nowhere, around 7am, a group of hens and a few jakes shows up. I asked Matt if he wanted to shoot a jake...and he wasnt too sure one way or the other. then i got to looking a little deeper in the woods, and right behind some thick cedars stood 2 huge toms in full strut. they were a little out of his range so we sat and watched. just then a nice gust of wind blew in and spun our decoy a full 180 in a heartbeat...and spooked off all the birds. kinda bummed, we sat and contemplated what to do..we'll sit tight and do some more calling. so, its now 8am, and we hear some rustling in the leaves. a bearded hen and a few more jakes came within 10 yards of the blind, but after seeing those big gobblers, he had his mind set he was going to wait for one. so we sat and watched these birds mess around for about half an hour...and they walked off. 10am, we were froze. it was 34 degrees opening morning of youth spring gobbler here. we called it a day and headed back to the house.
Day 2:
same morning ritual..almost identical to the day before, only we were both tired. we didnt have any birds showing up at our set-up so matt decided to catch a few Z's. Little did I know..so did I. Out of nowhere i woke up, the kind of waking up like your dead asleep and then BAM...your awake. I hit the call a few times and had a gobbler sound off 50 yards behind us. I woke matt up ad told him to get ready, i think this is his bird. to our left 2 hens came running down the hill to our blind. i couldnt figure out for the life of me where the gobbler went. About 5 minutes later, i heard the buzzzz buzzzz of a tom in strut. and there he was..huge bird..just showin off for the lady folk. matt got his gun setup, and waited, and waited and waited...i thought he was never going to shoot. i then whispered...whats wrong? which he told me he didnt have a clear shot..so he was waiting. (not bad for a 9yr old with his first turkey only 20 yards away from his barrel) 5 minutes had passed, and i whispered, the second you get a clear shot of his head, let him have it. no sooner did i say that..BOOM...and there was a turkey floppin on the ground. came out to be a 15 yard shot.
Matt
9yr old
First turkey
27lb
7/8" spurs
10.5" beard
Regular season
I wont go day to day..as ts been 2 weeks of spring gobbler here already.i'll just cut to the chase.
I got set up in the same blind matt got his bird from at 6am, lots of gobbles..lots of replies to my calls. 7am, i see a black blob sneaking through the trees. turns out its a jake..legal, and hey, i havent got my first bird yet. and when i say first...yup..my first ever. he stops in a little opening 35 yards out and i drop the hammer...he jumps...and walks away. i waited a few minutes and snuck up to where he was standing when i shot...no blood, no feathers..nothing. so i settle back in the blind and do some more soft calling. and hour goes by with no action, no gobbles. nothing. 8am, here comes the turkey i missed an hour ago..coming back the same trail he left on. he hung out at 35 yds again, so i waited. he jumped down into a drainage ditch that runs down to our lake, and disappeared. i've got my gun up..and i'm searching. out of nowhre he pops up, 5 yards from the blind...staring in...and that was it. i got my first turkey.
so, now to up the ante and see if i can just beat the odds against me...i decided i was going to try to get both my spring birds...i figured, we got lucky with matt and i both getting our first birds in one year..there no way i'll get my second bird.
week 2:
driving up the driveway at the farm around noon, i saw a nice big tom running across the lower field. since the woods are really greening up, i decided a field would better suit me now. I hopped on the 4 wheeler and retieveed my blind and went and set it up down in that lower field. a few days go by and i finaly have a free morning to drive out to the farm and hunt. heres how it went down...
I decided last night to take my youngest son, Owen with me turkey hunting. He's 5, doesnt hunt...but likes being in the blind. 5am rolled around and we headed out. we got to the blind at 6, and settled in for what i thought was going to be a no bird day....the wind was insane this morning. no gobbles until 6:30, usually theyre gobbling their fool heads off before daylight. anywho, we got the decoy set out in front of us about 15yds out and started doing some soft calling. never got a response. we were set up along a creek in a field...so it was foggy in the morning. as the fog lifted i noticed some heads bobbing around about 150 yards out. 5 hens live decoys I tried everything i had to get the hens over near me but it never happened. about 6:30...the gobbles started coming...4 different birds, all on the same ridge...all about 200 yards away. one by one, they started filtering off the hillside and into the field which left them 100 yards away from us, and only 30 yards away from the hens. there they were, 4 toms just strutting for the ladies..i thought, what the heck..the hens are starting to walk away..the gobblers are following, what do i have to lose? i put in a mouth call, and picked up my PV slate and went to town with both of them. it wasnt 5 minutes later, all 4 toms left those hens and came running full bore across that field to my decoy where they strutted their stuff. that is until one of them (the lead tom) showed himself in front of one of my open blind windows at 15 yards, where he met his doom. the hens took off like a shot from across the field, but the other 3 toms stayed and watched my bird do his death dance. owen got out of te blind to go check out my turkey, and the other toms just looked at him stupid for about 10 seconds...then reallized he wasnt supposed to be there and ran slowly across the field clucking.
so...i have beaten the odds i think
i got matt on his first bird during youth portion-8am
i got my first bird ever the first week-7am (missed bird) , 8am got my bird
i tagged out the first year i have ever shot a bird. -7am
i went up to the house and showed off the turkey, and took my nephew out to the same blind i just got this turkey from, we had a gobbler coming in, but he hung up about 100 yards out and wouldnt budge, then just walked off.
Jeremy
29yrs young
first succesful year turkey hunting...filled both my tags
22lbs
1" spurs
11 1/4" beard
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