Well, today I renewed by membership in the prestigious "tommorow's trophies today" club!!!! ::) :P ;D
Got rained out first thing this AM, so I took a little drive @ 7:30 and only saw a single hen in my travels. The turkeys have really gone MIA in the past several days. I don't know where they're hiding out at? I decided to stop and check my trailcams and do a little walking/calling while I was at my buddies farm. On the way to my cams I spotted 3 hens and a fat red-headed bird picking around out in the field. I snuck into position to get a better look and discovered it was a jake. Not having much else going on, I figured I'd try to test my predatory skills and see if I could slip within range of them just for fun (honestly had no intentions of killing him at this point). I ended up about 55-60 yds, watched them for a couple of minutes and closed the distance to within 40 yds. I was really hoping that he would turn and start heading the other way so I wouldn't be tempted to take a shot. Instead, he turned and came walking up the field edge right towards me stopping perfectly in a little opening with his neck all stretched up. The redneck in me took over and decided that it was time to drop the hammer and field test some Hevi #7's. He's the first jake that I've taken in quite a while, but no excuses or regrets, it was a fun hunt and I felt like I needed to finish it with a BANG. Overall, it's been a long, rough season here in NY with lots of close calls and bad luck. I killed my best gobbler ever a couple of weeks ago and this one is going on the grill. I passed up 10 jakes (all within 20 yds) during the past week and a half. There should be plenty of 2 year olds for next year. Now for the task at hand: 4 days left to get dad a bird...
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Hey man congrats on tagging out. Field test worked. I still have a tag and am holding out for one of the toms I have been playing cat and mouse with all season with the crossbow. Got 4 days to get'r done :) . I may be regretting not whacking one of those many jakes that have been trying to committ turkey suicide by hunter this year.
Quote from: timbrhuntr on May 27, 2011, 02:02:58 PM
Hey man congrats on tagging out. Field test worked. I still have a tag and am holding out for one of the toms I have been playing cat and mouse with all season with the crossbow. Got 4 days to get'r done :) . I may be regretting not whacking one of those many jakes that have been trying to committ turkey suicide by hunter this year.
Good luck with the x-bow. As I said, the next 4 days is all about trying to get my dad on a longbeard. There's several that we've been playing games with all season. Hopefully, his luck will straighten out by noon on tuesday and he can give one of them a paper bracelet. If not, that's turkey hunting for you...
Right on! Good luck getting your dad a bird. Hopefully we can both post something up on or before tuesday ;D .
congrats on the bird