Dad got one!!!!

[wisconsinteacher]

Well after three days of hunting where I live, we moved south 70 miles to mom and dad's place and hunted there for the holiday weekend.  Dad and I were set up at 5 and heard our first gobble at 5:30.  He gobbled but flew the wrong way off the limb.  When on the ground, he would gobble every 15 min at about about 500 yards away.  I kept calling every 10 minutes to keep busy and not fall asleep in the blind.  It was hard to say awake with the rain hitting the blind.  At 7 I put my head down for a few minutes to wake up with a hen at 10 yards.  She walked off and entered the woods walking towards the tom.  As soon as she hit the woods, I started calling with my mouth call and she lit up with a lot of yelping.  This went on for 5 minuted then I said to my dad, I am going to use the shaker gobbler, we have nothing to lose.  I started cutting and gobbled twice and the hen went wild.  This sparked the tom to gobble at 500 yards away.  I said she is going to help us or hurt us.  Ten minutes later, she yelped and he gobbled about 100 yards away.  I told dad to get the gun ready.  Five minutes went by and I saw a white head pop up in the brush.  I told him to get ready.  The tom stepped up to the fence and looked at the decoys.  I told dad to let it rip.  With that, the 870 barked and the tom dropped and never moved until I picked him up.  It was a 45 yard shot with #6 HeviShot out of my 3" 870.  There was a little hole where he had to shoot and he made it happen.  This is our first kill with HeviShot and I am impressed, the bird never moved.  He was 23 lbs and had a 10.5:beard with 1 1/8"spurs that were very sharp.  I called to him for 2 1/2 hours and it worked. (I did not hunt with white shoes, the pictures were taken after the bird dried off.)

[guesswho]

Cool!  Congrats to Dad!

[M,Yingling]

 

[JVA54]

     

[OLE RASPY]

 

[Ol'Mossy]

Congrats, nice bird

[bowhunter84]

congrats

[Wrangler95]

Very nice,congrats!!!

[Gopherlongbeards]

congrats to you and your father! 

[hookedspur]

 

Cool!  Congrats to Dad!

[cannonball]

Congrats!

[turkey slayer]

Congrats to Dad!!!!

[Hognutz]

Congrats to the both of you..

[wisconsinteacher]

It was one of the best turkey hunts of my life.  I told him as we left the house, that I was going to call one in for him.  When we set up I said, it will come out by that bush and that is right where it died. 

[njdevilsb]

Congrats to you both.  Good bird.