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Title: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: skimerhorn on April 30, 2017, 09:00:24 PM
Finally got on a bird I've been hunting for 3 weeks. Had a couple hens fly down 20 yds from me then he flies down and struts. Hens carry him away from me into field, but when he saw my avian x decoys he came running in half strut. Shot him about 30 yds, about 20 yds before the decoys. The mag blends drilled him, not even a flop. He was dead at 620. Didn't weigh him but had 9 inch beard and inch spurs.(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20170501/aa7893e6769038d9ab9e34a579ef0e5d.jpg)

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Sat hunt
Title: Re: Va bird down
Post by: renegade19 on April 30, 2017, 09:25:35 PM
 :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: Va bird down
Post by: Roost 1 on April 30, 2017, 10:44:54 PM
Congrats
Title: Re: Va bird down
Post by: mtns2hunt on April 30, 2017, 11:19:39 PM
 Exciting
Title: Re: Va bird down
Post by: trkycaller on May 01, 2017, 04:12:33 AM
congrats!
Title: Re: Va bird down
Post by: shademtn on May 01, 2017, 02:17:29 PM
Way to stick with him.
Title: Re: Va bird down
Post by: tha bugman on May 01, 2017, 05:11:58 PM
Nice bird beautiful pics!
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: skimerhorn on May 01, 2017, 07:06:55 PM
Thanks guys. I got the video up now. Just realized it was a bad shot. First time out with the red dot. Guess I stopped swinging the gun? Either way dead bird
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: beagler on May 01, 2017, 07:24:34 PM
Congrats!
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: Gold Spur on May 01, 2017, 08:49:55 PM
Good job! :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: JMalin on May 01, 2017, 09:08:58 PM
He was going in there to whoop up on that jake decoy.  Probably could have waited a little longer before dropping the hammer, but also realize that y'all aren't paid TV hunters and putting a bird down takes presidence over getting more footage.  Nice bird.  Those easterns really do sound different than the rios I'm used to hunting.
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: skimerhorn on May 01, 2017, 09:27:57 PM
Quote from: JMalin on May 01, 2017, 09:08:58 PM
He was going in there to whoop up on that jake decoy.  Probably could have waited a little longer before dropping the hammer, but also realize that y'all aren't paid TV hunters and putting a bird down takes presidence over getting more footage.  Nice bird.  Those easterns really do sound different than the rios I'm used to hunting.

I would've waited but I would've had to shoot across my friend if he got to the decoys. There was a road in front he had been using. He flew down and strutted up it a ways but hens carried him another way. If I wouldn't have had to shoot across my friend I would've let him get on the decoys, just glad I got him
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: Greg Massey on May 01, 2017, 09:46:41 PM
nice bird, congrats...video was good also...
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: kyturkeyhunter4 on May 01, 2017, 10:01:49 PM
Congrats!
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: ncwoodsman on May 02, 2017, 09:41:17 AM
Congrats, nice one!
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: surehuntsalot on May 02, 2017, 10:36:06 PM
congrats
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: WiLL B on May 02, 2017, 10:43:01 PM
Congrats!!
Title: Re: Va bird down(updated with video)
Post by: steveo on May 03, 2017, 04:39:37 PM
Sweet !!!