need2hunt Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 Most everyone is aware of what the weather was like for a good deal of the country on Tuesday night - severe. Wednsday morning I slept in till about 7 before I got up, got ready and headed out in the rain. I checked a few fields but I had a good idea where the birds would be. When I finally got around to where I thought they would be hanging out I wasn't disappointed. I set up in a wooded fenceline between 2 grass fields. The grass field behind me had 2 longbeards out in it and the field in front of me had 1 longbeard with his harem of 10 hens out at about 100 yards. I had picked up several calls from the RT forum members this year and with seeing this guy with all his hens I knew what i needed to do. I just sat back in the fenceline and would take out one call, do some soft clucking and purring, then switch to the next call and do the same thing and just started rotating through all my calls. Evidently I ended up sounding like a slightly larger harem than what he had because I got them all working slowly towards me. I knew they weren't going to be running in due to the weather so I just took my time. Took them a little over an hour to work into range, I waited to get some good separation between him and the hens and I dropped him with some Remington Hevishot. 22#'s, 11" beard and after a more accurate measurement 1-1/8" spurs. Here I am with my hen chorus thanks to Strut10, Redbeard, alex30808, bowhunter56 and huntn4bucks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 I knew you'd set up some cool pics Gary. Great story. I like it!!! Congrats again on your 1st bird for the year. Now...go get another one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest bowhunter56 Posted April 26, 2007 Report Share Posted April 26, 2007 great story and Bird, thanks for sharing with us...Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
booner1331 Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 awesome bird...... great pics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest outdoorgirl Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Wow you got a nice collection of calls. Congrats on your well earned turkey. Love the pictures. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest HoppeMan Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Nice bird!!!! Congrats on him And I like the pictures you set up, they really add a nice touch Take care, Nathan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toddyboman Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Congrats Gary. Nice pics and story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beagleboy Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Awesome pics. Congrats. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntnMa Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 awesome, love the first pic with the barn...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chrud Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Great story and awesome pictures Gary! I really like the first picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TravisM Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Congrats Gary. Nice bird....great pictures. -Travis Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntn4bucks Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Big congrats on a very nice trophy! I'll have to wait until I get home to see the pics because photobucket is blocked here at work. I can't wait!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sportsman2500 Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 nice looking pictures!! great bird as well congrats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maytom Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Neat pic's!! WTG!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elnor Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 Fantastic bird and photos! Congrats again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BAMABUCKS Posted April 27, 2007 Report Share Posted April 27, 2007 congrats on a nice bird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbeard Posted May 3, 2007 Report Share Posted May 3, 2007 Man oh man, what a bird. Many congrats Gary. Awesome picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Great pics and a great bird Gary. Congratulations. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiteRunner Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Congrats!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
5SHOT Posted May 4, 2007 Report Share Posted May 4, 2007 Great looking picture! Great looking bird and great looking calls!! Awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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