Well I spent the last four days of foul weather in the Great State of Kentucky. We had one decent day of hunting and three of rain, snow and cold. The birds were somewhat vocal, but the woods got silent by 9:00AM. We did not even hunt evenings because of the weather. I manged to kill one gobbler and I should have filled my second tag, but something happened I have never experienced in the spring woods. MY SAFETY FROZE!!!! No kidding it rained, turned to snow and dropped to 29 degrees and in all that I was lucky enough to call in a long beard and when I went to shoot.....my safety was frozen on. I could not move it at all, I sat and watched the bird walk away. I thought I had experienced everything, but that was a new one. I have an old over and under Pederson that I always wanted to kill a gobbler with so I took it. It is only 2 3/4 chamber and Mod by full chokes, but patterns well. It was the top mounted safety that froze. I killed the one bird at 10-15 yards and the old gun done very well. The other bird was ~30 yards.
I did not have a scale nor did I measure the beard or spurs....it was a nice gobbler and worked well, that is all that mattered to me, next he'll eat well too.
Our season in Ohio opens Monday. So I'll scout the next couple days. I'd like to get another day in Ky to. I'm only a couple hours from my hunting spot there.
Nice bird, congrats
Congrats on the gobbler!!
I once had my safety freeze while pheasant hunting, while it was icing. That was painful, but no where near as painful as having it happen in the turkey woods!!
Greg
Don't feel bad. Two years ago I tried to shoot one with the safety still on. It didn't turn out well...
Congratulations on a successful hunt, Dana. Good luck in Ohio! I hope you won't have to deal with a frozen safety any more this season.
Jim
Congratulations. I fear that (Something freezing) happening this year in NY it was snowing today even.
Congrats Sir, nice bird!!!
Congrats
Congratulations good bird
Nice one... and that is quite the predicament!
Looks like a nice one. Congrats and good luck in Ohio
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congrats
That's got to suck BAD about the safety. Congrats on the one you did get.
Thanks for all the compliments
Very nice bird,congrats!!
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Boy what a dud of an opening day here in Ohio. Birds Gobbled a couple times on the roost then went quiet. I know I was around birds, but I could not make one gobble. I saw some hens wandering around and spooked one off a nest. I hate that, but she was right along a trail I was walking. She had six eggs. I will give the nest a wide birth the rest of season and hope she comes back. I never worked a bird at all today, that is a rare thing for opening day. Actually I have only failed to tag a bird on opening day once in the last five years. I guess I could have actually filled a tag, but jakes are not on the menu yet.....I let 8 jakes walk this morning. They just came walking up over a bank right at me, I guess they were coming to my call, but they never said a peep. I just pointed my finger at them and said BANG!
Well I am finally tagged out in my home state of Ohio - it has been a crazy season. I killed one in Ky and had my safety freeze on what would have been my second. Here in Ohio it was rough as birds where very sporadic in the early season. I still carried the little Pederson O/U for the first week and had to let 3 birds walk off at 40-45 yards, becuase my effective range is 35 yards with that gun. So much for playing with a pop-gun. I had a buddy with me on one and he shot one of the birds. I started carrying the regular turkey gun the second week. Everything stupid that could happen did happen. I finally killed a nice bird on the second Saturday. I took a few days off and went fishing up on lake Erie then came home and had a chance to work several birds, but they were being difficult.
Now for the crazy story: This morning I went to the family farm where I had watched birds in a field the last two days. They gave me the slip early so I pulled out plotting for tomorrow. I came home and started to get ready to hook up the brush hog and mow when a bee buzzed my head and and I swung at it with my hat and slammed my hand into a piece of metal. After cleaning it up I had a hole in my hand you could see directly to a tendon in. So off to the doctors office and five stitches later I'm on my way home. I meet the Mrs. on the road and she flags me down and says there is a gobbler in our field. So I pull in the lane and look in the field and sure enough there's a gobbler just tooling around. So I rush up to the house and grab the gun and call and sneak down the fence row until I'm about 100-150 yards from the gobbler and While thinking, "this is stupid I'll never get this gobbler to come" I throw one series at him and here he comes on a string. I am standing by a tree with no face mask or gloves (which in my haste I did not grab) and this idiot bird marches up to within 25 yards of me. Bang, he is removed from the gene pool and I am tagged out ! What a crazy season.
Congrats. Guess that makes up for your safety freezing.
Congrats!
Oh I forgot to mention I saw a hen with a brood of chicks this morning, I hope they all make it
Congrats on a great crazy season.
That's why you gotta love turkey season, you never know what is going to happen next.
Congrats
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