Okay lacire, wishing you a safe and successful hunt this weekend, need a great story with lots of pictures!!
:morning: well I'll do my best, it's a 600 mile round trip and I'm leaving Friday afternoon to hunt with my son for two days. Normally we hunt a week together but he guides and just got booked for the next week so I'll have to get it done in the two days he has allotted me. :TooFunny: Cats and the cradle and the silver spoon....we never know how life's going to turn out do we.
Good luck and safe travels!
Good luck and have fun with your son!
Good luck!
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I'm all packed up and heading out this morning. I've got a 300 mile drive to where I'm hunting tomorrow and it looks like we may have some rain coming in, you never know what tomorrow's going to bring. Thank you for all the well wishing and I'll keep you all posted as soon as I can.
Hope, It's going well, looking forward to the update!
Ok, here's an update, trying to do this from my Apple SE phone so bare with me. We heard gobbling at first light today but before we could move in and setup in some old standing oaks the birds were already on the ground. As we moved closer we could see half a dozen or so hens moving across a large cleaning in front of us. We dropped down behind some large fallen branches and setup behind them, not ideal but in front or any closer we would have been busted. My son started calling and we saw a white head pop up about a hundred yards away. The tom came in hot and running, he pulled up about twenty five yards away and raised his head looking for the hen. My son whispered "shoot him" about ten times but I didn't have a shot through the limbs. The tom knew something was up, turned around and ran back just as fast as he came. :TooFunny:
After recovering my son started calling again and three more toms started coming across the opening. The first one stopped at about thirty yards and puffed up, slowly he came closer and started moving to my left. I halfway stood up and shot him at twenty five yards, at the same time my son shot the one to the right for a double. Both nice birds, they looked like twins. I scored him at 60.275, 21.9lbs, 10.125 beard, LS .9375, RS .875.
https://imgur.com/a/fUFIh9A
Heck yeah!!!!! Congrats on an awesome double!
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Thank you, my sons recovery time was pretty intense. :TooFunny:
Congrats on a fine Tom, awesome that you were able to hunt with your son and double up on birds, great job with the pictures. Will update score sheet tomorrow.
Thank you Jeff.
Thats awesome. Congratulations.
What a hunt! And father & son to boot! Congratulations!
Quote from: notsure on March 27, 2022, 11:03:39 PM
What a hunt! And father & son to boot! Congratulations!
Thank you
Congrats, great hunt
Thank you.
Congrats on a great hunt and a great bird!
So are you 1 and done or are you able to go again before your season is over?
Quote from: Muzzy61 on March 28, 2022, 09:49:37 AM
Congrats on a great hunt and a great bird!
Thank you
Jeff I might have the opportunity for another bird later in the month, it'll depend on my sons work schedule. Right now we're socked in with rain for two days.
Congrats!!!! Good job!
Thank you.
Quote from: JeffC on March 28, 2022, 12:26:50 PM
So are you 1 and done or are you able to go again before your season is over?
Well I'm on my way again, cars packed up for another 600 mile round trip down to my sons house. He's seen some gobblers on different places he can hunt and keeps calling me. I took my one 13 year old grandson last year. He had hunted ducks and geese with his dad for a couple seasons and he got to shoot his first gobbler with me and his uncle. So now I've decided to take my other grandson who just turned 14 down. He's done quite a bit of shooting but never hunted, we will see if we can get him on a bird too. My wife thinks I have an ulterior motive saying "and just maybe... there'll be a extra gobbler left over for you and you can get in some hunting too" wives what do they know........ I am bringing an extra gun for backup just in case his fails. :TooFunny:
Good luck lacire, have a safe trip and hopefully successful hunt.
Thanks, praying for a safe trip, it's supposed to be cold and raining here for the next two days.
Go get um!!
I drove the 300 miles in high winds and pouring rain. We hunted for about two hours yesterday afternoon in rain gear and didn't see or hear any birds, they must have stayed in apparently smarter than we were :TooFunny:. I'm up at four and back at it again today.
This post is late, apparently forgot to hit send. The weather wasn't as nasty as yesterday but was still cold, wet with scattered showers. We hunted all morning with nothing to show for it, we ate lunch and went back out at about one, by 2:00 the grandson had his first gobbler down, 18.25 lbs, 9.125 beard, 3/4" and 1" spurs. I'll be back out tomorrow, the weather is supposed to be getting better and hopefully a little warmer.
Tell your grandson congrats. Thats great!
Well my personal season ended today and I shot my first limb hanger. I'm beat and typing on an Apple SE cell phone so the story will have to wait. I'll try to catch up in the next couple days and Jeff, I'll send you the pictures. Weight 21.84, beard 9.375, spurs were both 1.25, total score 65.59, just a little better that the first one point wise. Good luck to everyone still hunting for the Scattered Flock.
Quote from: HillclimberWV on April 22, 2022, 10:03:27 PM
Tell your grandson congrats. Thats great!
We'll do thank you
Thats awesome lacire, fist congrats to your grandson on his first Tom. Can't wait to see the pictures, Congrats on tagging out with a limb hanger!!
Grandsons' 1st Tom
lacie's limb hanger
Quote from: JeffC on April 23, 2022, 06:19:56 AM
Thats awesome lacire, fist congrats to your grandson on his first Tom. Can't wait to see the pictures, Congrats on tagging out with a limb hanger!!
Thanks Jeff.
Great bird. Thats awesome.
Congrats to your grandson and yourself on great birds!
Quote from: Muzzy61 on April 23, 2022, 08:39:04 PM
Congrats to your grandson and yourself on great birds!
Thank you, he had a good time, liked everything but cleaning the bird :TooFunny: I think he forgot about that part but he manned up.
Heck of a bird! Congrats to the the both of you.
Congrats!!! Always special when a youngster gets his 1st!!
Quote from: notsure on April 24, 2022, 10:30:50 AM
Heck of a bird! Congrats to the the both of you.
Thank you, he was pretty proud of it.
Quote from: Spellnj3 on April 24, 2022, 12:22:17 PM
Congrats!!! Always special when a youngster gets his 1st!!
Thank you, last year his cousin went with me and shot his first bird so I figured it was his turn this year, now he wants to go deer hunting too.
Quote from: lacire on April 25, 2022, 01:34:27 AM
Quote from: Spellnj3 on April 24, 2022, 12:22:17 PM
Congrats!!! Always special when a youngster gets his 1st!!
Thank you, last year his cousin went with me and shot his first bird so I figured it was his turn this year, now he wants to go deer hunting too.
That's great!! Better in the woods than on a game console.
Here's my story, a little late but I was beat and had to take care of some things when I got home.
My son and I drove up an old access road cutting through green rolling hills dotted in oaks. We'd stop every so often, get out, call and glass the open areas. Well above us and on a very steep incline we spotted three gobblers strutting in the sunshine, two on one little knob and one on another. With no way to approach them from where we were, we drove back and took another road that came out about a quarter of a mile above them. As we approached there was no cover for us to hide in only the grass, which was about 18 inches tall. My son inched forward until we spotted the two then dropped down and pushed our tom decoy forward over the crest (we were on private land and were the only ones hunting) and gobbled with his box call. The two gobblers turned and ran as fast as they could down into a large patch of undergrowth and disappeared. We were disappointed for a few seconds when over to our left we spotted a little black speck coming fast through the grass. The single boss gobbler was running up the incline towards us. Three or four times he stopped and fanned warning the intrusive decoy to get out. Between his blind anger and our camo hiding us in the tall grass he never new we were there. As he moved towards us I kept whispering "keep coming, keep coming", at sixty yards my son whispered "he's almost in range" at fifty yards I put my bead on him and at forty yards I whispered "I'm going to take him", my son said "don't shoot him, let him get closer", at thirty yards I whispered " I'm going to take him", my son said "no, closer" and I waited through a long pause.......(having hunted many times with my son, I have total confidence that he knows what he's doing... :TooFunny:) then he whispered "wait till he stops". In a couple seconds it looked to me like we were going to get jumped by this turkey and just then my son gobbled, this stopped him and he fanned out.... my son whispered "blow his head off" and I shot him point blank at fifthteen yards. The first limb hanger I've ever shot.
Thats awesome Lacire, how many birds is your son responsible for this year, 2 for you, 2 for kids, ?? Congrats
Quote from: JeffC on April 28, 2022, 12:26:26 PM
Thats awesome Lacire, how many birds is your son responsible for this year, 2 for you, 2 for kids, ?? Congrats
One of the land owners that my son knows usually has birds on his property every year. It's an easy place to set up a blind and walk the kids in for there first bird. We then make the little hunters and huntresses write a letter about there hunting prowess and think him for such a nice time. Very nice man and he always looks forward to seeing us.
Awesome story!!
Quote from: Spellnj3 on April 29, 2022, 12:04:52 PM
Awesome story!!
Well Spellnj3, it's mostly all true too :TooFunny:. I believe this is the 3rd time I've sat totally out in the open in full camo and shot a gobbler, just staying very still with minimal slow movement; but without that decoy that bird would have never come in. I think it also helped that there was a light breeze blowing uphill and moving the grass back and forth, to him that must have really broke up our outline.
Thats great that you have the kids show the owners some gratitude. I thought you said your son was a "guide", was more curious on how many birds he took and was involved in taking? You said you took your firs limbhanger?? need pictures, is it a upgrade to your score??
Yah, he was busy with some fishermen earlier so we only hunted a couple days, I'm the only turkey hunter he's guiding, I think our family bird count is five this year. My first limb hanger was my second bird that you already posted so there's no upgrade and our spring season ends this Sunday so I'm done, maybe back at it in the fall. The older I get the harder the hunt gets. If it wasn't for my grandson, I would have been happy with my first bird but I'm really glad I took him to get one too. He bought back the wing bones so I can show him how to make a call ::) (he said he'll get school credit for it). Anyway, hope we can do this again next spring season. Everyone in the Scattered Flock take care and good hunting, lacire. :wave: