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Title: Windy Day Double
Post by: SpurIA on April 17, 2012, 01:13:58 PM
A buddy and I braved the winds Monday morning and had a great morning. We heard the first gobble at 5:46 and it continued until they hit the ground and then the rattled off just a few times. I had scouted this spot and knew that these turkeys were using this alfalfa field after fly down so I felt pretty confident in the setup.

There have been 4 toms in there and they were all together that morning. Number 4 of the pecking order got chased around and ended up strutting into the decoys at 8 steps. He walked right past my strutter and beat on my DSD Jake. I came to full draw when he went behind the strutter's fan and then had to hold for a bit until he got off my decoy. He got throat punched and with that 2 other toms and a hen raced in and the stutter took a load of shot to the head and we were done!


Link to video (I am not a professional)
http://youtu.be/dfgi2cWUmv8


The stats:
My bird: 21.5 pounds, 10.5" beard and 1" spurs
His bird: 23 pounds, 11.25" beard and 1-1/8" spurs.


(http://iowawhitetail.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1006&pictureid=10400)


100 grain bullhead to the throat


(http://iowawhitetail.com/forum/picture.php?albumid=1006&pictureid=10401)


Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: Lenny870 on April 17, 2012, 01:31:11 PM
Awesome footage and great kills..Congrats to the both of ya :z-guntootsmiley:
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: ILIKEHEVI-13 on April 17, 2012, 01:34:26 PM
Nice video. 

Congrats to you both.
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: njdevilsb on April 17, 2012, 01:39:51 PM
Congrats to you both.  That was some cool video.
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: scoot12 on April 17, 2012, 02:04:38 PM
That was awesome,  thanks Scoot
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: neal on April 17, 2012, 02:07:07 PM
SWEET!!!! I thought maybe the second kill was not on video then all of the sudden the gun barrel comes into frame. LOL! Awesome!!!
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: pullit on April 17, 2012, 02:08:58 PM
congrats great video, love the way the decoys moved in th wind.
I liked the way the first one to come in fan would pop up in the wind as well
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: chcltlabz on April 17, 2012, 02:09:24 PM
and that concludes the lesson for the day!  Great hunt and video.
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: gophert on April 17, 2012, 03:15:39 PM
Yea...I'd say you were in the right spot.   :z-winnersmiley:

Great video and hunt!
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: bird on April 17, 2012, 03:23:46 PM
Very Nice.... I love the shot with the bow!

Outstanding
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: Hognutz on April 17, 2012, 03:33:56 PM
That was incredible. Very nicely done...Congrats on the video, the blind placement, and the two beautiful gobblers..Mike
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: blackmagic on April 17, 2012, 04:05:09 PM
Very cool!
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: Wrangler95 on April 17, 2012, 04:22:30 PM
 :z-guntootsmiley:

Very nice going,congrats!!
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: redarrow on April 17, 2012, 05:39:33 PM
COOL  !! :you_rock: :you_rock: :you_rock:
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: bpot4 on April 17, 2012, 06:08:43 PM
Good Vid, thanks for posting!!!
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: surehuntsalot on April 17, 2012, 07:30:21 PM
congrats to you both
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: boomer on April 17, 2012, 08:10:59 PM
Congrats!!
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: wisconsinteacher on April 17, 2012, 08:26:05 PM
Cool hunt.  I did see a bird that followed the flock that hopped.  Was it a jake that was hurt?  Again, great hunt.
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: jakebird on April 17, 2012, 09:07:08 PM
Wow, that was some great footage. I love it when the decoys take a beating like that. Congrats on a great video hunt and a double!
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: SpurIA on April 18, 2012, 11:51:27 AM
Quote from: wisconsinteacher on April 17, 2012, 08:26:05 PM
Cool hunt.  I did see a bird that followed the flock that hopped.  Was it a jake that was hurt?  Again, great hunt.

Yes that was a jake, I'm not sure what happened to him??
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: mnturkey on April 18, 2012, 03:50:07 PM
Great Video, good job.
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: heathwesley on April 18, 2012, 06:00:48 PM
That was awesome!!!  wow
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: hd mike on April 21, 2012, 08:01:35 AM
congrats, great job on the video!
Title: Re: Windy Day Double
Post by: surehuntsalot on April 30, 2012, 07:01:00 PM
congrats