Monday May 7th, 2012
Early this morning I was with Tyler (Big Hunt) he shot his 27lbs monster turkey.
He was so excited and I was so happy for him. I couldn’t believe that his fly down tactic with his hat actually worked, it made the turkey fly down. He made a few calls and he came right in. I couldn’t even see him yet, but as soon as Ty seen his head he put his gun up and BANG! There goes the turkey rolling down the valley we ran after him, tagged him and started to head back. Way to start of the morning.We take care of his turkey then decide to take a little break, relax, and get some lunch. Afterwards, we were debating on sitting in the blind the rest of the day or going out to hunt for some morel mushrooms. We decided to look for some mushrooms. Now that Tyler is tagged out for the fourth season, I still have a tag to fill, it was 12:30 and we headed out. I carried my gun along just in case we ran into a gobbler. We head across the field back towards the valley. We headed down the dug way and almost got in where some good elm trees are and before we can even find any mushrooms Tyler says to me Stop! Stop! Stop! I stop in my tracks; he spots a hen about 50 yards down the trail. So, we stopped where we were. There was nowhere to sit, and there was nowhere to hide for cover, we sat behind this small log that was in the middle of the dug way. I quickly put on my mask and gloves. Ty holds up his predator camouflage shirt to use as a blind, he gets out his calls, and lets out a few yelps and purrs. She comes right in for us 10 yards, yelping back and looking for us. Thanks to our makeshift blind she never even saw us.
earlyer that mouring when tyler shot his bird, there was another tom gobbling down the ridge. as we got up to the car thoses gobbles kept getting closer and closer to where i killed mine......the hen continued yelping and walking away to the right of us when all of a sudden to the left of us on the ridge we hear a gobble gobble gobble. I couldn’t believe it the hen was calling this big tom right in for me. She keeps yelping and he keeps gobbling back getting closer and closer. At this point I can’t see him yet, but I can hear him echoing through the valley getting closer and closer. He is in full strut now, as he’s approaching me I can hear him spitting, sharp psssssst, and drumming, deep dooooom, sounds. I know he’s close, as I scan the area, I finally see him strutting, my breathing gets heavy, and I get my gun up ready to shoot. Ty whispers to me, take your safety off and when you’re ready, shoot. He’s behind a tree I let him come out a couple of feet, I get a clear shot. BANG!!! We ran after him, I helped hold his wings down so he wouldn’t go anywhere. I couldn’t believe how strong he was. I was so full of excitement and shock, the adreniline was rushing through my veins, I was so happy, ecstatic, and overwhelmed. One shot, one kill!!! It was about a 25 yard shot. It all happened so fast in a matter of ten minutes or so, Ty never even got a chance to get his video camera on. I tagged him and carried out my three year old 25lbs gobbler with ease up the ridge and across the field to my car. tyler belives that it was the same turkey we heard in the mouring after he shot his 27 pounder......He had 10.5 inch beard and 1 inch spurs. We got back to camp, had a fire that night and my hunt was all that I could talk about .
I was so proud of myself. My first spring turkey hunt couldn’t have gone any better. This will definitely be one to remember. Thanks Tyler.(BigHunt)
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Congrats!
