FSU_Seminole Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 (edited) Hello everyone. Another successful opening weekend of turkey season for me in SC.A quick over view. I recently got permission of a very wealthy city slicker to hunt his property. Guy has over 400 acres of land and lives in a 8,000 sq foot house on it. Guess what he rarely allows hunting on his property. He "does not" like deer hunters at all and won't allow it. I got extremely lucky because he's good friends with my dad. He told me I could come and turkey hunt on his place "if I could find any". This guy knows nothing about hunting and such. He just had the property clear cutted in March. Turkeys are EVERYWHERE on this place and because he hasn't allowed any type of hunting there are dozens of mature birds on this place. Ive set up 2 trail cameras and have over 300 pictures of turkeys.Anyways we set up Saturday morning in a clear cut. We set up in the middle of the cut and it was a logging road off to our left. I sat out a jake with 2 hens. I took my wife and a friend with me. About 15 minutes before sun rise thundering gobbles were all over the place. But we didn't see the first bird until about 8;30. 3 big gobblers walked on the logging road and cut loose gobbling. They headed for my decoys and all of a sudden stopped. They were 50 yards from me and about 30 from my decoys as I had the decoys in front of me. They stood there for 15 minutes like statues. I was hoping they were coming closer, I guessed wrong. They turned to leave, I hit my slate call with some soft yelps and clucks. The biggest of these 3 ignored me and went back up the road in the woods. The last 2 stopped and turned back. I whispered to my wife its now or never. I picked out the bigger of the 2 aimed for the neck and BOOM!!! He dropped like he was hit with a 2 x 4. 70 yard shot with Heavy Shot 13 #5s!!!! I wrote here a few weeks ago about those shells. They are unbelievable, I doubt if I every shoot at a turkey again at 70 yards but HS is no joke!!! My bird weighed 24lbs 1.5 spurs and had a 9 inch beard. My taxidermist said he thinks he was 5 years old or older. We know the shot was 70 yards because we drove back to the house and got my range finder and ranged the distance to exactly 69.2 yards. The only draw back is we didn't have our digital camera so the only photo I have is with my phone camera. Hope you guys have the same success. HS/ briley chokes and you won't go wrong!!!!! Edited April 6, 2011 by FSU_Seminole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flintlock1776 Posted April 5, 2011 Report Share Posted April 5, 2011 Cool beans! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pruts Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Nice, congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruttinbuc Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 WTG! That is one heck of a bird... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 sounds like a great hunt and awesome property. i'd do what you can to hang on to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsharp01 Posted April 6, 2011 Report Share Posted April 6, 2011 Congrats on the bird. Sounds like you got a golden piece of property in your hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterfowler Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 nice turkey! id like to hunt that land myself! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHISKEYSWAMP Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 congrats on a dandy of a bird! :gunsmilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Congrats...very nice hooks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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