Rainy Day Recurve Bird

Unread postby **jonsimoneau** » Mon May 13, 2013 3:03 am

What a wet cold spring it has been! I setup in a spot where I had seen turkeys on a previous scouting trip. Despite the wet cold weather, birds were gobbling fairly good on the roost. They got quiet when they hit the ground but I stayed put knowing they were in the area. After a little while I game 'em some sexy yelps and excited cuts on a Crystal Mistress pot call by David Halloran. That did the trick. This bird started coming to me from a couple hundred yards across the field. I shut up and let him come. When he got about 60 yards out, he saw my decoys, but started to shy away. I figured it was due to the fact that my decoys were not moving at all. I gave him a few purrs and clucks to add to the realism and that did it. He turned around and came right into the decoys. I waited for him to face away from me then drew back, got the feather to my nose and drilled him with one of the BIG treesharks. I was somewhat astounded when he instantly took flight! My concern was not needed, as he went down in mid-flight. 10.5 inch beard, 1 inch spurrs. Unfortunately, it started raining right after I shot him, so there was little I could do to make the fan look pretty, but I couldn't care less! I shot him with one of my favorite bows, my old Habu recurve, and one of the 160 grain Simmons Treesharks.

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Unread postby **Ridgerunner7** » Mon May 13, 2013 8:58 am

Nice! I'd like to do that someday.

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Unread postby **Dewey** » Mon May 13, 2013 9:23 am

Congrats!

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Unread postby **hunter_mike** » Mon May 13, 2013 10:02 am

That is really awesome

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Unread postby **PeteJ** » Mon May 13, 2013 12:31 pm

Congrats!

Unread postby **UntouchableNess** » Mon May 13, 2013 12:34 pm

Sweet! Congrats.

Unread postby **Bigdaddy-yoyo** » Thu May 16, 2013 12:17 am

Great story.....Awesome with the recurve.... :clap:

Unread postby **keb** » Wed May 22, 2013 10:52 am

Claypool

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Unread postby **keb** » Wed May 22, 2013 10:53 am

Sweet

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Unread postby **UPbowhunter** » Sat May 25, 2013 2:04 pm

Awesome

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Unread postby **Uncle Lou** » Mon May 27, 2013 3:57 am

Excellent with the recurve. BigDaddy came to Michigan last weekend with his recurve on his Harley (what a sight) and we couldn't get the birds to cooperate.

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