Story Time!

[twyatt]

Let's get the story thread rollin'.  Post your stories here of successful, or (unsuccessful) hunts. 
*Also if everyone could only use the Harvest Thread sticky at the top for pictures/scores please and thank you. 

[Mossyguy]

Slept in this morning with the possibility of rain moving in...shooting a soaking wet bird is something I'm not partially fond of.

The two previous mornings have consisted of a particular group of 6 jakes running off the two longbeards where I hunt. One of the jakes is the boss...he's not mature but if you shot him just based on his gobble you'd be getting a ticket. 

Yesterday morning my dad had a strutter almost in range but the jakes saw him from over 300 yards away and took off after him. I tried to slow them down but they came by me way too fast and I couldn't stop them.

The jakes have even kidnapped the group of hens...I'm real close to grabbing a youth somewhere and taking out the ring leader!

[Tom007]

The weirdest thing happed to me on this 3-18-25 Osceola hunt. We set up in a remote part of a swamp, watermark on the trees were around 6 foot high, (Used Zelmo's height as a gauge). We strike up the gobbler, he was coming right into me. Out in front of me was a small hill with thick brush on it. He gobbled right behind it at about 40 yards. Just then, a whitetail came out and headed right towards the hill. I knew this could be a problem, the deer was only 25 yards from me. It stepped up the hill, got on its hind legs and started pulling leaves off the branches. I still couldn't see the Tom. A few minutes passed, he gobbled about 200 yards away? I know I didn't spook him, the deer had to. He gobbled a few times, but did not come. Then, we hit him with a gobble on the box call,  he answered aggressively. After a minute or so, he gobbled much closer, in front of me. Then I caught the red head moving in. He stepped behind a huge Cypress, I made a small shift. He stepped out at 35, bang! A memory I'll never forget, sharing it with Zelmo and Mike Robare.

[JeffC]

Congrats again Tom, awesome hunt shared with awesome people, and beach time with the wife, dont get much better!!

[Tom007]

Thx my friend. Appreciate the kind words...

[Yoder409]

Geez !!!  I get busy for a week (kid in the school musical) and the team goes all gangsta !!!

Congrats, Tom & Lloyd !!!

We WELL on the way !!!

[nyturkeyduster]

Slept in this morning with the possibility of rain moving in...shooting a soaking wet bird is something I'm not partially fond of.

The two previous mornings have consisted of a particular group of 6 jakes running off the two longbeards where I hunt. One of the jakes is the boss...he's not mature but if you shot him just based on his gobble you'd be getting a ticket. 

Yesterday morning my dad had a strutter almost in range but the jakes saw him from over 300 yards away and took off after him. I tried to slow them down but they came by me way too fast and I couldn't stop them.

The jakes have even kidnapped the group of hens...I'm real close to grabbing a youth somewhere and taking out the ring leader!

Slept in this morning with the possibility of rain moving in...shooting a soaking wet bird is something I'm not partially fond of.

The two previous mornings have consisted of a particular group of 6 jakes running off the two longbeards where I hunt. One of the jakes is the boss...he's not mature but if you shot him just based on his gobble you'd be getting a ticket. 

Yesterday morning my dad had a strutter almost in range but the jakes saw him from over 300 yards away and took off after him. I tried to slow them down but they came by me way too fast and I couldn't stop them.

The jakes have even kidnapped the group of hens...I'm real close to grabbing a youth somewhere and taking out the ring leader!

Solid plan! An unruly group of jakes can be real problem.