I made it out for Indiana's opener this A.M. The weather has rough lately. It has been raining practically a month straight. Anyways, after making the hike to the area where I wanted to set up; the birds started firing up. They gobbled extremely well at first light. However, 20 minutes after first light the rain began again. Gobbling stopped. I continued to throw out some calls in hope that a gobbler would hear them and make his way to us. This plan actually worked out. A little before 8am and nice gobbler was slowly working his way to my decoys. When he got to 11 yards I drew my Hoyt and placed the pin in the boilermaker. The shot drilled him and he slowly made his way away from my set up. It was obvious he was hurt bad. I gave him about 10 minutes then my buddy and I went to look for him. It wasn't a long search. We found him 20 yards from where we lost sight of him stone cold dead. This bird adds up to be my 5th gobbler this spring and tops off a great season for me. Another great part about this hunt was my buddy captured every thing in crystal clear HD footage!!!!
(http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff268/buck_hunter21/DSC00359.jpg)
Congrats on a nice gobbler and great season.
TRKYHTR
Congratulations! Maybe tomorrow will be my turn.
Congrats, nice bird
Congrats. You're a gobbler killin' machine..Well done..Mike :you_rock:
Congrats!
congrats man! Nice hoyt you got too
Only heard one gobble today between the showers and wind we dealt with in brown county.
congrats!
good deal, what broadhead are you shootn them turkeys with?
:icon_thumright: congrats
nice job on a great gobbler :anim_65:
Congrats!
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Very nice gobbler,congrats!!!
Great job!!! and with your bow !!! :you_rock: :you_rock:
:icon_thumright: Congrats!!
nice opening day bird! congrats with bow! :you_rock:
Congrats! :icon_thumright:
Day 1 wasn't as good for me. I heard no gobbles, saw nothing all morning except a coyote and three deer. I had all the rain and mud I could handle. Went back out in the after noon on another property around 1 and ended up killing a coyote that had good intentions on eating my hen decoys but the #4's stopped him. :happy0064: Later around 6:15 pm I had a lone hen cross in front of me, inside of 10 yds. This morning (Thursday) I saw 1 jake. The rain started again, the wind is blowing 30 mph and I am going to try something else again tonite.
Quote from: selinoid44 on April 28, 2011, 11:28:48 AM
Day 1 wasn't as good for me. I heard no gobbles, saw nothing all morning except a coyote and three deer. I had all the rain and mud I could handle. Went back out in the after noon on another property around 1 and ended up killing a coyote that had good intentions on eating my hen decoys but the #4's stopped him. :happy0064: Later around 6:15 pm I had a lone hen cross in front of me, inside of 10 yds. This morning (Thursday) I saw 1 jake. The rain started again, the wind is blowing 30 mph and I am going to try something else again tonite.
Sounds about like my day yesterday in central IN. Didn't see or hear a thing except for the quad on the other side of the property (same woods) really close to me doing some mushroom hunting :(
The turkeys travel around a lot between a few small woods in the area and I only have permission on a couple so the hard part is finding them! Good luck to ya up north!
Congrats on a great spring.
Quote from: strutnva on April 27, 2011, 08:39:26 PM
good deal, what broadhead are you shootn them turkeys with?
I am a fxed blade guy and have killed turkeys with fixed blades before, but I wanted to try a big mechanical this year. Shot him with a 2 blade Rage.
Congrats!!
Congrats!! I love that Maxxis, I have a black one and love it. I killed my first archery bird with it last Fall.
Quote from: woodchip on April 28, 2011, 03:18:09 PM
Congrats!! I love that Maxxis, I have a black one and love it. I killed my first archery bird with it last Fall.
Thanks! I was looking at the blackout Maxxis back when I bought this one. This was the first time the I took into the woods. :you_rock: