Gus Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 I killed my first bird last year on April 10 and got my first bird this year on April 10 Tried to get this boy Saturday night, but was unsuccessful in shooting him, but I did figure out where he was roosted . Sunday morning I went in to the area from the back way, crossed the creek, got my feet wet and at 6:30am was sitting at the base of an oak tree about 100 yards away from the tree I thought he was in. I got situated and put a mouth call in. At 6:45am he made his first awaking gobble of the morning . I didn’t make any noise and in a few minutes he gobbled again. It was getting light so I took my cap off and made a fly down call. A hen flew down in front of me and went on up the hill. He gobbled again in the tree so I made a few light yelps with the mouth call and he flew down into a clearing straight in front of me, landed about 60 yards away and starting gobbling and strutting around. He strutted his stuff for a few more minutes and kept gobbling, then he broke strut and I guess he could see the hen that flew down and was going towards her. I knew he was about to follow that hen off so I pulled the trigger of the new mossberg 835 and at 7:10am I had my first gobbler of spring 2005 laying down 52 steps from where I had pulled the trigger . He weighed in at 24 pounds, has a 9 1/2 beard, right spur is 1 1/4 and left spur is 1 1/8. NWTF score of 66.75 for the Beard Cutters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MadHuntinPastor Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Congrats!!! Great Bird!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimT Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Way to go!!! Thats awsome... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VermontHunter Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day WOW,,,Now that's a great bird....CONGRATS.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanH Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Very Nice bird! Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waterfowler_gal Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Way to go Gus-what a beautiful beautiful bird!! I guess we will just have to official name April 10th as your annual turkey hunting day! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Congrats Gus. Very nice gobbler. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boomer Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Congrats Gus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robk Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day great job man excellent bird you got there rob k Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Posted April 12, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Thanks all, I hunted hard all last week. Heard lots of toms talking, but couldn't them away from the hens. They are still henned up bad around our place, but I finally managed to get the first one of the year down. Went to my sisters on the way home and we went down to where she has been seeing a tom strutting in the mornings and afternoons. It was 5:45 this afternoon and he was out there showing off for 7 hens. Maybe Wednesday I will get off work early enough and I am going to try to get him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shaun_300 Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Congrats Tonya! thats an AWESOME bird!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RatherBowHunt Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day great morning and congrats on the bird!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest buckifan21 Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day way to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
borch Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Way to go! Excellent bird and hunt! Borch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slaw Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day awesome bird gus, that 835 doesn't hurt as bad when you got a longbeard in the sights does it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buckbuster11 Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Thats a great bird......congrats!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntn4bucks Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day That is a beautiful bird Gus! Congrats! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobie Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Congrats on a great bird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magnatecsteve Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Man, the coloring on that bird is AWESOME!! VERY nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbeard Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Way to go Gus, congratulations. Nice photo. Great bird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ohiobucks Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Great bird Gus, a big CONGRATS to you! And one of these too ---> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogdoc Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Way to go Gus! Outstanding bird--52 steps--WOW! Awesome bird todd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day Great bird! Congratulations! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Posted April 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day [ QUOTE ] awesome bird gus, that 835 doesn't hurt as bad when you got a longbeard in the sights does it? [/ QUOTE ] It sure doesn't, didn't even feel the 835 go off, but I sure did hear it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hookedonhunting Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Re: April 10, My Lucky Day congrats on the bird!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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