Gobble

[Slowpoke]

Finally got around to posting a picture of the 2nd turkey I killed last week. I could take a picture of the first one because it was raining to hard. Anyway, killed it with my smoothrifle at about 12 yards. 60g of 2F, mixture of #5 & #6 about 1 1/4oz in a cartridge. Nothing special about the hunt. I sat there, he flew down, he ate a bug or two, walked past me trying to get the field, bang. Didn't even use my call.

SP

Sorry about the time stamp of the picture... the wife must have been messing with the camera.

 

[bob1961]

nothing wrong with the time stamp....if ya could trim yer photo ya can git rid of it....but i never noticed it till ya said sumtin bout it....how long is the wiskers on that fine looking tom :thumbsup: .....................bob

 

[Slowpoke]

The beard was 6 inches. My brother is taking my nephew out this weekend and hopefully he'll get one too. My brother has killed two as well and is chasing this one bird that rules the roost, so to speak. This turkey is big, 20 plus. I saw him a couple time last week and actually pushed him off the roost one morning. He's really sneaky, never roosting in the same place twice and does gobble all that much. Only thing I could get him to respond to was a hawk call.

SP

 

[roundball]

Turkey's have truly beautiful feather colors...you did your part right...congratulations on a fine hunt!

Mine opens this coming Saturday...been watching a flock the past couple weeks always showing up in a little grassy field alongside a thicket around 9:30am...been planning an ambush from the thicket...BUT...just noticed yesterday that a big adjacant field was just plowed, worried it'll change their pattern and they'll be over there looking for bugs and worms instead...we'll see.

 

[The Baron]

Beautiful bird! Sounds like you used your woodcraft skills to better that bird. That's probably a far more authentic way to mix smoke and gobblers, than calling.

 

[Huntinfool]

Way to go SP I believe your'e the first TMA guy to kill a bird so far! I'm sure someone will correct me if I'm wrong nice bird!

Chuck

 

[Maestro]

Way to go, Slowpoke... nice job sneakin' in on his roost!

A couple of years ago, I didn't even know one was in the tree over my head 'till he flew down right in front of me. There have been many other times though, when I tried to get a little too close to their roost and spooked them off.

Again, congrats!

 

[roundball]

Way to go, Slowpoke... nice job sneakin' in on his roost!

A couple of years ago, I didn't even know one was in the tree over my head 'till he flew down right in front of me. There have been many other times though, when I tried to get a little too close to their roost and spooked them off.

Again, congrats!

Reminds me of a morning a few years ago...an hour before light I was hotfooting it deep into the back side of a public game land during deer season...a brisk 40 minute hike that I've made many times...crossed a 1 acre clearing like always, went into the woods on the other side, and all %&$# broke loose...a flock of roosted turkey's flushed out of a huge tree right overhead...scared the bejeepers out of me...went on in to hunt.

Later in the morning when I was coming back out, there lay a dead hen, had flown off her perch in the dark and drove her neck stright into the "V" notch of a dead limb, must have killed herself instantly, fell to the ground with her neck still wedged into the fork of a foot long piece of that limb.

Without thinking I picked her up and started carrying her out with me...then it dawned on me they were out of season and I was carrying a muzzleloader...figured it wasn't worth the risk of trying to explain it if I met up with anyone, so I set her down, pulled a couple feathers and left her for the critters...ashes to ashes and all that

 

[Slowpoke]

I killed a hen a couple years ago when I shot a jake. Not fun just letting them lay there for the critters. I swear I can't believe I actually hit her wit ha pellet. I think she hard a heartattack or something. She was a good 20 yards to the left of the bird I killed. The only thing I can think of is a pellet bounced off something that hit her in the head or neck. In SC where I hunt we get 5 a year in the Spring with no Fall season. I'm flying back down Thursday night and hunting Friday and Saturday. Hopefully I'll have some more pictures when I get back.

 

[roundball]

In SC where I hunt

Met my Wife there...lived/hunted/fished all throughout the Santee-Cooper watershed & swamps from '64-'77...doves, ducks, deer, bass...have missed it terribly ever since...good luck and watch out for the rattlesnakes!!

 

[Slowpoke]

I grew up in greenville, but I spent 5 years in Charleston while my wife was at MUSC. I love the lowcountry of South Carolina. We're moving back in 2 years, can't wait to get some fresh seafood and smell the salty air.

SP

 

[roundball]

I grew up in greenville, but I spent 5 years in Charleston while my wife was at MUSC. I love the lowcountry of South Carolina. We're moving back in 2 years, can't wait to get some fresh seafood and smell the salty air.

SP

(Sumter / Columbia)

 

[KyFlintlock]

Congrats on your fine bird. 12 yards is great fun!

Wess