Gus

Gus Team 9---Tagged Out Doe 11-28-09

Got a doe for us. Will get the pics up this weekend hopefully.

I have my fair share on hogs running around on my place. I go back home just about every weekend to help my mom out and do stuff for her, plus just mess around out at the place. Every time I am there I set the hog traps (I have 4 now and about to build a couple more), plus take the gun or bow and go hog hunting when there is no other seaon open. I kinda like the hogs so that I can have something to shoot year round, but they sure can tear stuff up.

Well it sure was fun finally being able to sit in a treestand again, it was kinda drizzling/rainy all weekend and I didn't score on any deer. Actually I only seen 5 deer all weekend and none of them were within bowrange, but I did score on a black boar hog that weighed 120 pounds.

I get to hit the woods this weekend, I can hardly wait until Saturday morning :wine:

Congrats on the doe Rem. I still have a couple more weeks before I can hit the stands, but I am ready.

Another vote for Tagged Out

Checking in here, ready for the season to start. Bow starts for me Oct 3, so not that much longer of a wait.

Gus 34 October to Mid January

Last weekend bird, smaller than the first but he will eat just the same Saturday May 16 I had gone around the place trying to strike up a gobbler, but couldn’t get one to answer me so I decided I would go and sit by the feeder that the hogs had been coming to since it was a little cooler than it has been thinking maybe the hogs might show themselves during the day. I stick a few turkey calls in the pockets, grab the AR and the shotgun and go get in the stand. Ever so often I let out a few of my turkey sounds and all of a sudden there is one answering me across the creek, he sounded like he was coming my way so I just stayed in the stand, got the shotgun ready and tried my best to lure him my way. Well, little did I know I had another gobbler interested in my calling, while the one of the other side of the creek was talking to me I had a silent boy come in. It was like he just popped up in front of me out of nowhere, so now he is just about 15 yards away and wondering where the hen he had come looking for had gone. I got the 835 up to my shoulder and pointed in his direction about the same time he decided something was wrong and he was getting out of dodge, but he wasn’t fast enough to outrun the swarm of #4s headed in his direction. My silent bird ended up with a 6 inch beard and ¾ inch spurs.

Saturday May 16 I had gone around the place trying to strike up a gobbler, but couldn’t get one to answer me so I decided I would go and sit by the feeder that the hogs had been coming to since it was a little cooler than it has been thinking maybe the hogs might show themselves during the day. I stick a few turkey calls in the pockets, grab the AR and the shotgun and go get in the stand. Ever so often I let out a few of my turkey sounds and all of a sudden there is one answering me across the creek, he sounded like he was coming my way so I just stayed in the stand, got the shotgun ready and tried my best to lure him my way. Well, little did I know I had another gobbler interested in my calling, while the one of the other side of the creek was talking to me I had a silent boy come in. It was like he just popped up in front of me out of nowhere, so now he is just about 15 yards away and wondering where the hen he had come looking for had gone. I got the 835 up to my shoulder and pointed in his direction about the same time he decided something was wrong and he was getting out of dodge, but he wasn’t fast enough to outrun the swarm of #4s headed in his direction. My silent bird ended up with a 6 inch beard and ¾ inch spurs.

I found one of my aunts, an uncle and my sister on the list, I sent them emails about is so maybe they will get something

The gobblers around my parts where still acting henned up, so I set up a few of my game cameras around on my place to see if I could get any pattern from them. One of the cameras the turkeys where coming by it on a regular basis, in the mornings leaving a roost and going back in the afternoons, so I set up a popup blind in hopes of catching one of the gobblers. The last couple of weekends I sat in the blind and would call about every 15 minutes or so and never could get the gobblers to come my way and all I seen was hens walking right by within shotgun range. Saturday afternoon my luck changed and during one of my attempts at calling, all of a sudden I heard a gobble and it was close and to the right of me. I had the windows on the right side closed because from the game camera they had been coming from the left during the afternoons, but I did have a little spot peeled down on one of the right windows just so I could peek out that direction. The bird was coming my way and I still could not see him thru my little peek hole, but finally I seen him and he was strutting around, so I let him get his fan between me and him and then peeled one of the right windows down and got the shotgun out and ready for action. I watched him put on a show for a minute or so and then let the shotgun do its part. I ended up with a 20 pound boy that had a 10 ½ inch beard and both spurs ¾ inch.

Gus Final Roost---Team 2 NWTF Score---56 Right Spur Left Spur Beard Close up of end of beard Tag Form

Here is me and my bird, going to post the story up in the turkey section

Got us some more points Saturday afternoon I will post the pics and a story after I get my mom to sign the form, but the details are he weighed in at 20#, has a 10 1/2 beard and both spurs are 3/4 for another 56 points for us

Nice bird fly, congrats I have until May 17 to get one, but sure wish I could get one soon, they are about to wear me out. Guess I will stick my gobble shaker in my vest this weekend and see if that will work for me also, so far my other tactics hasn't done the trick.

Nice beard on that boy, congrats on a great bird

Got back from my little trip out to west Texas with some buddies for opening weekend and we never seen or heard any birds . Not sure where they went because back in the fall when I went deer hunting with the same guys, there was turkeys everwhere and I shot a nice tom. I was ready to kill some birds and we couldn't find them. Got to my place and hunted it Tuesday to Thursday and finally heard some gobbles, but I guess they are still kinda henned up because all they would do would answer me and never come my direction. I seen several hens around my place and got several gobbler pics on my game cameras, so I will be back after them this weekend. I have a couople places here where I live that I might get in a few hunts during the week, so we will see what happens.

Thanks all, it has been good so far. Waiting on mom to get here and we are going out for some food with my sister, bro in law and my niece , when that is done and I am full I am headed out to do some predator calling

Have not made it down south to my cousin's place yet because of us hunting in predator calling contest last weekend and we have the last contest tommorrow night. The season opens up in the north zone (where my place is) next weekend, April 4 . I am headed out to a place with some guys from work for the weekend and if I don't get one then I will be hunting around my place for the rest of the week, I will see what I can do :D:D

I had a little trouble also, I had to rename the picture after I saved it from a .gif to a .jpg file and then it showed up for me. Try that and it should work, it did for me.

Was out doing a little predator calling right before dark Saturday afternoon and the gobblers were talking again on their way to the roost I can hardly wait to start chasing them on my place, I am off the first week of the season and will be out after them all week

I always go with a head shot when hog hunting and they just drop after the shot. I don't carry big caliber guns, most times I have the AR with me, but if not the other 2 guns I carry are a 22-250 or my new 204, both of them will drop a hog also. No tags, no season, come on down and kill some hogs.

I have a Bushmaster Predator