Non- Contest 2014 Kills

[ericjames]

Just a place for us to post our kills. 

[turkey buster]

Killed a jake yesterday. I'll get some pics up when I get home from camp

[turkey buster]

Here's the pic

[ericjames]

Looks like some good ol' fried turkey breast to me.. Good job.

[turkey buster]

  and yes I smell grease popping

[ericjames]

I use to do a little turkey hunting up around coushatta. They had a pretty good population up that way.

[turkey buster]

I took this one in kisatchie on public land/national forest. I'll be going to my lease tomorrow looking for a longbeard

[ericjames]

Oh yeah, I know exactly where that is, worked all around that area on drilling rigs. Winnfield, saline all the way back into Ruston. Good luck to ya. I might not even go in the morning here, it's suppose to be 28°

[memert116]

Here's the pic

Congrats!!

[Illini Tom]

nice job, eric. congrats   
you southern boys are killin me
i still got 20 days til season opener 

[ericjames]

Well the bad thing is that as of right now I don't have another I one that's gobbling. I saw 5 Jakes yesterday and 3 this morning. So I will be going to just listen for one to start gobbling.

The one I killed yesterday he gobbled 4 times on the limb and 3 on the ground. He was coming in to me and 7 hens cut him off. I went back yesterday evening and got there about 4:30 eased in and set up. About every 15-20 min I would call lightly at 5:30 I heard him gobble and right after that I got the sudden urge to take a leak.  About  6:10 I couldn't take it anymore I eased up on my knees and proceeded to handle my business. About the time I got finished I heard a one drum. I peaked out around the tree and the hens spotted me and took off. They flew up in a tree about 75 yards and started trying to check and see what moved, I thought I blew it. I already had got the gun back in my hands by then, I just stayed still and was prepared to stay like that until dark. Well with nothing to loose I decided to take my hands and rake in the leaves. Well time I did, it wasn't  10 sec. I heard him drum again and saw him easing toward me. I let him come on in until I had a good shot and them I let the old 835 eat with a 3.5-2-5 turkey thug @ around 20 steps . It wiped him out.

[nickhrp]

nice job, eric. congrats   
you southern boys are killin me
i still got 20 days til season opener 

Tom it will be 28 more days before I get a chance cause of work even though our season starts this weekend

[turkey buster]

Work and late seasons are overrated lol

[TJK68]

Dang, 34 more days till our season even comes in! 

[ericjames]

Just got another one.. To bad I don't think he will upgrade.