Gus Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteRunner Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom Congrats! That's A Nice one! Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest outdoorgirl Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom Way to go Tonya !! Thats a big gobbler for sure....love your story....congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSGB Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom Congratulations! That's a beautiful bird! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntingInMaine Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom Wow, that's a great bird! Congratulations!! Now I REALLY want my season to start! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom Way to go!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bexar_county89 Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom Thats awesome!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoshM Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom NICE BIRD!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntnMa Posted April 12, 2005 Report Share Posted April 12, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom that is a nice big tom, congrats, love the pics................ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Posted April 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 13, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom Thanks all, I am going to try to get another one after work one day this week. Yesterday afternoon I went by my sisters house and she told me her and her husband had been seeing some toms every morning and afternoon in a field by their house. Me and my sister drove by there and sure enough there was one out there strutting his stuff. Maybe in a couple of days I will have tom #2 of 2005 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ladyluck Posted April 14, 2005 Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom Wow!! What a super bird. Congratulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Posted April 14, 2005 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2005 Re: First 2005 Tom Thanks again, I am going to try with my bow this weekend Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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