Kill Story and Congratulations.

[Trevor2]

Good bird man. Way to double check and make sure you didnt just wound and loose him.

[keyser12ga]

Jamey,  Congrats.   Way to keep with it, like you said persistence and prayer!  Coyote's are cussing you, ha.

[bornagain64]

Congrats Jamey.
That is a good lesson for everyone, always double check.

             John

[bornagain64]

Congrats Turkeykiller22.
I need a score to be on the score thread?

                      John

[jarbo03]

I got to the field around 4:00 in the afternoon, scanned the wheat and didn't see anything.  As I was heading towards the spot I wanted to set up, I saw a hen come walking out of the treeline right where I wanted to be.  Snuck back to edge of field so I could work my way around through the trees, checking the field on occasion, knowing I could not get to my desired location.  After an hour and a half of nothing else I decided to walk the woods and try to get a gobble, they would not respond to the crow call.  A while later an owl sounded off and I heard a gobble no more than 50 yards from me in the wheat field.  I worked my way up and saw the top of his head going towards the hens, the field is terraced so I could not see the birds, but I knew where they were.  It was only 6:00 so I knew he would be a while henned up.  Walked the woods and found where they had been roosting, followed a few trails and finally found the one covered with gobbler turds, went and camped out near an opening near where it entered the wheat field, figured I would stay there a while.  The mosquitos were terrible and I thought about leaving, couldn't take it anymore.  Then I heard the hens start fighting and he gobbled again, that was enough to make me stay.  After ten minutes I did a few soft yelps and purrs on the traveling call followed by some loud and fast cutts on my diaphragm, put my calls down and waited.  Once the bird realized the hens were leaving and heading towards the woods I could now see him, he came out of strut and started towards me in a frantic pace.  Stopped about 60 yards out and started looking for the hens that were making noise.  He putted around asking where they were, would of been nice had I any decoys out.  Gave a few soft yelps and purrs on my diaphragm and he finally came closer.  He started getting about not finding any hens and losing the ones he already had, he started to go back towards the other group of hens, but it was too late, he was in gun range.  Put a round of one of my reloads across the back of his neck as he turned the other way.  A 25 lb bird is a load to carry back across 3/4 of a mile of oats in old corn stubble, well worth it though.  A few pics, also one of a bearded dog along with a bearded bird, he did manage to get it off the ground and start retrieving it to me.  Total score was 68.5

[bornagain64]

I shot another bird. It was not a big bird and my other bird scored better.
It was the last day of my quota hunt so I decided to take the 1st legal bird.
Another tough season, I was fortunate to get 2 birds.

                   John

[kyhareraiser]

way to go team strutt stoppers..  congrats to all

[wmahunter]

Just got back from New Mexico and was able to kill 2 merriams there however neither will better my score. 
Congrats to you other guys who are killing birds!!  Looking good.

[timberjack86]

I got the travel call Tuesday! I set out this morning to hunt one of  my favorite wma's in middle TN. I arrived a little early and was taking my time getting my GPS coordinates set when a Longbeard started Gobbling in the pine thicket behind me. The sky is still pitch black. I grab my vest,gun and flashlight and head into the thicket. These birds have been henned up bad. I decided to get as close to him as I dare while all this time he is still Gobbling nonstop. I get within 60 yards of him and decide thats close enough. As dawn slowly arrives I etch out 3 seductive hen yelps from our travel call. The bird answers back with a triple gobble! Within minutes I can hear the sound of foot steps in the leaves. I can make out a white nogging easing thru the timber. I raise my gun and when I see the legal beard...Well the rest is History!

[jarbo03]

Great job timberjack, nice bird.  Another bird down with call #1.

[woodwzrd]

Nice Bird Timberjack. Congrats

[kyhareraiser]

time to share my story i guess,, sorry for being late .. starting out on open.n morn i was in the woods at daylight ,, heard 3 gobblers was all. one close the other two on opposite sides of the mountain. i do a flydown cackle with the ole' hat flopping trick to simulate a hen flying down then i was quite. then it happened ,the gobbler started sounding off , so i give a few yelps and again went silent  but was'nt long till three hens came down the ridge to where he was over the bank but i still give some purr's , clucks .yelps  (all real low cause he was close) . things went quite and i never heard a sound for about 30 minutes so i just sat there ,got out my call conditioning kit and worked on my box and slate call because i thought the hens had taken him down the ridge ,then it happened ,,the loudest gobble i'd heard ,,he was still in the same spot as before . he had went nowhere ,,guess he had bred te hens right there and then was coming for me , the stranger in town.. i steadyed myself agaist the tree and the 20 ga. on my knee and was.nt long till he hopped up over the bank and looking arround for me ..BANG///FLOP .7:30m my hunt was over. with bird on the atv ,and heading outa the woods  at  i called my friend to see if his 10 year old brother-n-law stayed the night with him and he had so i tell him to get him outa bed because i was coming to get him and call him in a gobbler. him and his brother-n-law had hunter since the day youth season came in but seen nuthin' but both were green to turkey hunting (neither had ever been ) .anyway ,Cade and I rode the atv up on the hill behind their house and we walked ,and walked and walked as i was hitting the box call to try to get a reply ,then we heard it ,a Gobble all way arround where we started so we kinda ran to cut the distance in half and i hit the box call again since that was what he answered and there it was a gain. the Gobble was way close so i put Cade up against the tree ,gave him my gloves,facemask and leafy outfit top ,and as he snuggled against the tree i handed him the 20 ga. and told him to set still. i bgan calling and the gobbler was closing in  and since i did.nt have alt of camo to hide me i sat kinda on the bcckside of the tree  and as the gobble hung up about 40 yards out i took with my feet and made a lot of noise kicking leaves and sticks going into a low purr and some yelps,,well the Gobble could'nt handle that so instear of struttins arround the log in front of hin,it flew up on top of the log, Gobbled and thats when Cade put the hurt on him at 20 yards . at 11:30 we both had our gobbles laying on the ground taking pics ..  as we all stood there admiring out harvest with his parents ,grand parents and his sister and brother-n-law he looks up at me and says ,i guess that makes me a STRUT STOPPER too don't it? i laughed loudly as i said you my friend are now an honorary STRUT STOPPER then he ask,,,will you take me again next year .. he is hooked on the outdoors and gobbler huntin..