3seasons Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 Was blessed to take a beautiful bird on the Big Island of Hawaii at 8600’. Horrible weather followed us as usual (Nevada and Arizona should pay us to plan a trip out there) but we’re making the most of it. Visibility was maybe 25yds this morning on the volcano but I was able to pick out a nice bird and fill my first tag. 8.75” beard. .75” thick broken off spurs and 19lbs it was a hunt like I’ve never been on. Pretty cool. I’ll tell the story after I get back home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted March 15, 2018 Report Share Posted March 15, 2018 That's a hunt that's been on my bucket list ever since I saw Rio jakes on Lanai close to 30 years ago...................... Doubt it'll ever happen, now, though. CONGRATS !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3seasons Posted March 16, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 16, 2018 6 hours ago, Strut10 said: That's a hunt that's been on my bucket list ever since I saw Rio jakes on Lanai close to 30 years ago...................... Doubt it'll ever happen, now, though. CONGRATS !!!! You should make it happen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted March 16, 2018 Report Share Posted March 16, 2018 Congratulations Scott! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3seasons Posted March 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2018 Hawaii 2018 March 14,2018 We arrived to the big island in a rain storm on March 12. The next day we had to register our shotguns with the police station and get our turkey tags from the Wildlife department. After our morning of getting ready to hunt we made a quick scouting trip up to the mountain to see what it was going to be like and boy we had no idea. We found lots of tracks in the road and we did see one gobbler walking through and opening. We had an idea of where the birds would be the following morning. Wednesday morning greeted us with 68deg at the house by the beach 48deg raining white out on the mountain. Less than ideal conditions but we had to hunt with what we were given. We park the jeep and as day starts to break we can hear birds all over the place. While this is exciting understand you can hear a bird over a mile away, easy. We made our way to the closest bird which was up the mountain from where we were. Once we got close we set up and we could hear him drumming. He would gobble at our calls and just drum. We can’t see 30yds because of the clouds and this goes on for about 45 minutes. Bradley had to go back towards the truck and as he did so I called and the bird gobbled off to my right then Bradley called from a distance and he gobbled again farther up the mountain. I decided I had better make a more and started around the hill to try to get closer. As I walked up the hill I could see where the gobbler had been standing and gobbling the whole time, it was a big rock mound and it wasn’t 40yds away but we couldn’t even see it. I was calling as I eased up the side of the mountain and was looking for sign. I found some fresh tracks and droppings and knew I had to be close. I made a couple soft calls and walk a little higher. I call again and in the white out I see a hen step out from behind some brush up on the side of the hill, then I see the outline of a gobbler. As I get my gun up the clouds make his ghostly appearance disappear, in a bit a disbelief I just stayed on target looking and finally the clouds gave me a slight outline of the gobbler and I took the 25yd shot. I couldn’t believe it, I had taken my Hawaii bird in white out conditions it was crazy. I said my prayer and took some pics and then I hear Bradley hoot and I hoot back, it took us a little while to meet up. I shared the story with him then took some more pics, then we made our way done the mountain to the jeep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted March 31, 2018 Report Share Posted March 31, 2018 Congratulations Scott. Very cool you got to kill a bird there. Would like to get to Hawaii someday with my wife, dunno that will ever happen though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fly Posted April 4, 2018 Report Share Posted April 4, 2018 Congratulations! I didn't know gobblers were on the big island. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born4it Posted April 18, 2018 Report Share Posted April 18, 2018 Pretty awesome! Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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