VtBowhunter Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Great start, and at least you know they're responding, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted March 16, 2006 Report Share Posted March 16, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Yep VT...so far, so good. I'm heading out again. I'll check in Sunday when I get back home. Looks like I'll get to do a little bass fishing between turkey hunts too. Got an invite to fish a private lake where I caught a 10lb. 6oz. hog of a fish last spring. Caught 2 other bass that same day over 6lbs. too. Quite a few more eating size bass found their way into the ice chest. The big fish were catch and release after recording weight and taking pics were finished. Should be a fun filled long weekend. Having fun and enjoying life is a tuff job but somebody's got to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) I'm back a little earlier than planned. The rain moved in this morning around 7:30 and we're socked in with it through tomorrow. The good news is I killed a gobbler for the team yesterday morning. I had to work pretty hard for this one. Got on him around 7:00 in the morning and killed him a 9:10. It was a fantasic hunt! During the hunt I saw a total of 3 mature gobblers, 3 jakes, and 14 hens. My gobber has a 9 1/2" beard left (thanks to part of my shot pattern busting it up), both spurs measure 1 1/4", but he was sort of a light weight for a mature bird with those kind of hooks. He weighed in a 17 lbs., 10 oz. I'll post the story in the turkey room and post the required pics, etc. when I get the story typed up and the pics downloaded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtBowhunter Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) That's excellent, Rhino. Way to get us started and on the board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covehnter Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) We've got 2 birds now for the ThunderStrutts b/c i'm back with an Osceola from the Big Cypress Preserve killed on March 13th! Not going to do a lot for our score but it a good mature bird for the panther infested swamps of South Florida! Bird had 8 13/16 inch beard, 1 1/16 and 15/16 inch spurs and weighted in at 14 lbs of blackwinged longlegged Osceola on digital scales (they were Huntn4bucks, i think he tweeked'em b/c it sure felt like more after the 4 mile hike out!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Congrats Cove.....Way to go bud!!!! Ya know after posting the 1st 2 entries in the turkey contest we are really gonna start catching it now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covehnter Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Congrats to you as well, sounds like your season is off to a very impressive start! Yeah, i'm expecting the same! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) WOW Cove...just read your story. Y'all sure paid your dues for that gobbler. Great story and great hunt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtBowhunter Posted March 18, 2006 Report Share Posted March 18, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) This is excellent. Congrats, Cove. Now I feel pressured, LOL. Good thing I have until May 1st to get over the itch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyrod64 Posted March 20, 2006 Report Share Posted March 20, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) WTG! Our season opens in a few weeks and hopefully I'll be adding one soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted March 27, 2006 Report Share Posted March 27, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) I was humbled this past weekend. I left my shotgun and picked up the video camera instead. I tried to video a friend's hunt but the birds didn't cooperate like that have been for me. We had a great gobbling and drumming show put on for us Saturday morning but that old bird sure didn't want to walk out for the video camera. We could hear this old bird drumming from about 100 yards. He'd occasionally gobble to give us a fix on his position that let us know he was hung up. Sunday morning we had the same gobbler put a move on us and never saw him. He gobbled more than Saturday but never would come in. We were surprised by 5 jakes that silently came in and suddenly appeard from our right about 20 yards away but I couldn't move to capture them on video. They didn't hang around either. Must have have been something about the big lumps at the base of the 2 trees. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 4, 2006 Report Share Posted April 4, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) TTT....We were getting lost in the back waiting for the rest of the team's turkey season to open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyrod64 Posted April 5, 2006 Report Share Posted April 5, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Well opening day gets here Saturday morning and I can't wait! It's got kinda cool here the past few days but it's supposed to warm back up startin today. I hope so, I went out this mornin and didn't hear a gobble anywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyrod64 Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Well as luck would have it, I worked it out so I could be off opening day and got rained out! We had some bad storms Saturday morning, rain, hail and lightning. I'm gonna try it in the morning but a cold snap has moved in so I hope it hasn't shut em up. Let you know how it goes tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyrod64 Posted April 10, 2006 Report Share Posted April 10, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) OK team, I hit the jackpot this mornin! Biggest gobbler I ever shot. It was just a hair over 20lbs, 10 1/2 in beard and 3/4 in spurs. I'm runnin late for work so I'll post the pics and fill out my entry form tonite after work or in the am. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtBowhunter Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Way to go, Fly.........You da man. I spotted 11 strutters today and the season is just 2.5 weeks away.......I can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 11, 2006 Report Share Posted April 11, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Way to go fly!!! Congrats....way to take one for the team. I sent you an answer to your PM. I hope I made my instructions for posting pics, etc. easy for you to understand. Sounds like you'll be covered up soon VT. 11 birds in full bloom eh? That's what my Iowa buddy calls it. LMBO I'm heading to Texas Thursday to bust some Rios Friday and Saturday. The reports I'm getting from the King Ranch from guys that have already hunted there this year are unbelievable. Guys limiting out on their 4 birds the 1st day, numerous birds with 1 1/2" or better spurs, and a 13" beaded gobbler killed last week. We'll see real soon. They better watch out cuz Redneckerson is on the way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ny_gun Posted April 12, 2006 Report Share Posted April 12, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Congrats flyrod64... The NY season opens on the 1st of May. Hopefully I will be able to add one to the board shortly after that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyrod64 Posted April 13, 2006 Report Share Posted April 13, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Thanks everyone. I hope the rest of you have some luck when your season opens. Lets add em up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covehnter Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Way to go Fly! We're still wreckin' a few in Georgia too. Called this'en up for my buddy Sunday morning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 18, 2006 Report Share Posted April 18, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Keep the string going guys. I had a lot of fun in Texas with lots of feathers flying. Doesn't get much better than that! Never been in a situation before where I felt like I needed to pass 2 year old birds in search of older gobblers. I'll definately be heading back there again next spring. That was way too much fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Covehnter Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) ttt, we're getting lost in here fellas. Here's another i called up for my buddy last weekend, actually called in a double for him and my dad but 2 shooting out of the doghouse blind got tricky and only one bird died. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VtBowhunter Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) I get to start on may 1st, but since that's a monday, I might not get out until next saturday......TORTURE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ny_gun Posted April 28, 2006 Report Share Posted April 28, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) The New York Season also opens on May 1st and I will be in Virginia the first weekend. I think I will be trying to get out before work a couple of day so I do not go crazy. I do not think I can wait until the second weekend (5/13). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 29, 2006 Report Share Posted April 29, 2006 Re: Team ThunderStrut (#24) Good luck Josh and ny_gun. Both of you ought to be chomping at the bit by now from sitting on the sidlines while the rest of us have been smacking turkeys. Hope your 1st birds are some of those big fat long bearded Toms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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