ncturkey Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 April 14 2011 My daughter was gone to the Outer Banks for three days. So I thought I was going to have three days of hunting. My wife does not like to be alone and she asked me to sleep in. With so many early morning hunts I said yes. I still got down to my hunt club by 7:00 am. I had no more gotten out the truck near the front of my club and I heard a gobble. I got ready fast and headed after him. I setup on him within 100 yards of the property line. The gobbler was just on the edge of the line. I found out when I heard a few clucks that he had hens with him. He would not come my way so I did not waste time with him. It was still early so I decided to head to the middle of our club. I started off toward the back northwest corner of our property. I setup a few time on the way. There were three food plots in the back corner. I setup at the first one and the third one with no luck. So I decide to head back to the truck and rest. It was warm day. When I got back to the truck I was sweaty. I was wearing my Walls Bibs and they were just too warm for my afternoon hunt. I changed into some cool BDU pants. I had noticed on my way back to the truck there were some gobbler and hen tracks heading toward the truck but turned to the right before I got to my truck. After I pasted that turn I noticed a hens track leading to the same turn. So I knew just were they had headed. I hiked down that road to a good spot along a creek. I began calling with some clucks and yelping on my slate caller. I was also caller of a mouth call. After an hour or two I began to mix in some cuts and got a gobble off the property about 250 yards or so. He stayed put for a little while. He began coming straight to me. He was about a 100 yards from me and I could not see him. The woods were thick and knew he work probably be in range has soon as he came into sight. He gobbled about 60 yard out. I put the slate call down and began to just work him in with my mouth call. I finally saw him coming about 50 yards out. He was strutting all the way in. He began moving angling to my right. When he went behind some thick stuff I shifted to my right and got on him when he was in a small clearing. As soon has he was in my sights I fired. He went down and did not flop much at all. It was 4:20 pm. He was a nice longbeard with over an inch spurs. He was 40 steps from where I shot him. I tagged him and began taking some pictures. After I found my spent hull I headed back to the truck. I weighted him at the truck on my Berkley 50lb scales. He weighted 20 lbs. 6 oz. His beard measured 10” even and his left spur was1 1/16” and his right spur was 1 1/8”. It was an awesome day in the spring woods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted May 22, 2011 Report Share Posted May 22, 2011 Niceun...Congrats. Way to hang in there & enjoy a day in the turkey woods. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntnfish Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Congrats. Nice bird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHISKEYSWAMP Posted May 23, 2011 Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 great hunt and nice bird... congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncturkey Posted May 23, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 23, 2011 Thanks for the comments. It was a nice day in the woods. I think I walk about 3 miles that day. I had to rest up the other two days I was suppose to hunt. I guess I am getting old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruttinbuc Posted May 24, 2011 Report Share Posted May 24, 2011 That was quite the hunt! Very nice longbeard! Congrats, NC! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted May 25, 2011 Report Share Posted May 25, 2011 congrats ....nice bird! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ncturkey Posted June 21, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Thanks for all the comments. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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