After killing birds on Monday and Thursday, I got up early Sunday morning and drove to my lease only to find cold temps and cloudy skies. The birds were silent. Luckily the weather broke around 3 and about 5 o'clock, I went to small plot surrounded by select pines were tracks were abundant. I made a few calls over the next hour and heard nothing. I glanced to my left and there at 15 yards stood a sneaky gobbler. We saw one another at the same time. Instead of putting and running, the bird was spooked bad enough to immediately take flight and sail back down a hollow.
Knowing he wasn't coming back, I moved about a half mile to our planted gas line not far from where I killed Monday's bird. I got setup and made the first call with the new Buice at 620 PM, nothing. about 15 minutes later, I heard a gobble down the hill on the gasline. I waited a couple of minutes and made some quiet clucks with trumpet. This time the gobbler cut me off and I could tell he had moved a lot closer. I shut up and within a few more minutes, he was topping the hill looking for a girlfriend. He was dead at 705 PM. So that was a 7 day period, hunted 5 of the days, killed 3 gobblers with 2 new Buice calls!
Gotta love a nice afternoon hunt to finish out my GA limit!
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Awesome!!!! Great story and beautiful horn!
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Sweet congratulations!
Now that is how it's done! Congrats!
Incredible. Some people can go years or a lifetime without a season like that! Great work bud!
Awesome hunts and calls
Thanks guys, I thought I would throw up one more pic of the bird. The sun was lowering on the horizon and the coloration of this gobbler was amazing. I tried to get a good pic, but cell phone cameras and resizing do not do it justice.
(https://farm1.staticflickr.com/876/40636653864_9b815e65d5_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/24UVtrb)bird coloration (https://flic.kr/p/24UVtrb) by Tim Hillhouse (https://www.flickr.com/photos/138577851@N03/), on Flickr
Quote from: KentuckyHeadhunter on April 09, 2018, 04:05:03 PM
Incredible. Some people can go years or a lifetime without a season like that! Great work bud!
I've always seemed to be lucky when it comes to hunting and fishing. I once caught a 9.3# largemouth in the Dead Sea (Lake Allatoona) at 90+degrees in mid June while me and a buddy were just sitting in my boat and talking to his brother, his girlfriend and another buddy in another boat. I tossed a 4 inch worm across a deep secondary point and she engulfed it. Everyone still talks about that fish.
I've always been able to kill deer with no issues, (somewhere around 200 deer kills with 70+ bowkills) and when I started turkey hunting, my cousin/mentor said "approach it like bow hunting, get them close, set up right and kill them at the first opportunity" and that is how I try to approach turkey hunting. It seems to work, if I can get them to appear already in range, it seems the odds for a kill goes up.
I still consider it a lot of luck, but I can say (not to jinx myself), if I get the opportunity and the shot, I very rarely miss anything.
Nice call,gun and gobbler..... Congrats!!! :icon_thumright:
What kind of wood is your Buice? Looks sharp
Congrats!!