SpurHunter
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Got permission to hunt a small place against White-Oak MTN last week and while I was looking the place over on Wed night I saw an absolute monster feeding in a field and working his way through this piece of property. I felt 100% confident I knew where he would be come morning. </p>
Thursday morn, Catfinger and I got there at 6:55 to put out a blind for a future hunt. He was gobbling when I opened the truck door. He proceeded to gobble for the thirty minutes we were there and its was all I could do to leave for work without hunting! LOL</p>
Thursday afternoon, we were in the blind by 6:15 and waiting. About an hour later I saw something in the neighbors filed, TURKEYS! Just as I hoped for, they were using this field to stage for the trip home to their roost each night. I could see toms, but all seemed to be jakes with an occasional hen mixed in. When I got a jake stutting on camera, I knew there was no long-beard with them as he would have put a stop to that. I asked Storm if she was going to shoot a jake, she said maybe. I told her she needed to decide as it was going to happen soon!</p>
About 30 mins later the birds were getting closer and then 3 jakes popped out into our clearing and made a bee-line for my decoys. All three went into aggressive strutting, bumping into my jake and then one mounted my hen! He was breeding her, while I can be overheard telling Storm she was going to have to shoot him off of my Hazel Creek decoy! These deeks are EXPENSIVE and I didnt want a dang jake to destroy her. The video is not super, as I was having a hard time getting a good view through the branches, but Storm had a good line-of-sight. She finally cut loose and plowed one of them with a load of 20ga Hevi-shot, cutting about half of his beard off....emoEnforce emoLaugh </p>
We stayed in the blind for another 15 minutes as there was still turkeys down in that field and we didnt want to spook them. Finally got to lay hands on her bird and take some pics. I dont care who you are, when your kids harvest an animal as hard as a turkey is to kill, all by herself, its a very cool experience. emoThumbsup emoWorthy </p>
I am having trouble getting the video on the computer, but will post it as I get it on. </p>
The hunt continues for ol Long beard......</p>
A huge thanks goes out to Jon for letting my girl chase the thunder chickens! emoToast emoWorthy (you know who you are)</p>
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Thursday morn, Catfinger and I got there at 6:55 to put out a blind for a future hunt. He was gobbling when I opened the truck door. He proceeded to gobble for the thirty minutes we were there and its was all I could do to leave for work without hunting! LOL</p>
Thursday afternoon, we were in the blind by 6:15 and waiting. About an hour later I saw something in the neighbors filed, TURKEYS! Just as I hoped for, they were using this field to stage for the trip home to their roost each night. I could see toms, but all seemed to be jakes with an occasional hen mixed in. When I got a jake stutting on camera, I knew there was no long-beard with them as he would have put a stop to that. I asked Storm if she was going to shoot a jake, she said maybe. I told her she needed to decide as it was going to happen soon!</p>
About 30 mins later the birds were getting closer and then 3 jakes popped out into our clearing and made a bee-line for my decoys. All three went into aggressive strutting, bumping into my jake and then one mounted my hen! He was breeding her, while I can be overheard telling Storm she was going to have to shoot him off of my Hazel Creek decoy! These deeks are EXPENSIVE and I didnt want a dang jake to destroy her. The video is not super, as I was having a hard time getting a good view through the branches, but Storm had a good line-of-sight. She finally cut loose and plowed one of them with a load of 20ga Hevi-shot, cutting about half of his beard off....emoEnforce emoLaugh </p>
We stayed in the blind for another 15 minutes as there was still turkeys down in that field and we didnt want to spook them. Finally got to lay hands on her bird and take some pics. I dont care who you are, when your kids harvest an animal as hard as a turkey is to kill, all by herself, its a very cool experience. emoThumbsup emoWorthy </p>
I am having trouble getting the video on the computer, but will post it as I get it on. </p>
The hunt continues for ol Long beard......</p>
A huge thanks goes out to Jon for letting my girl chase the thunder chickens! emoToast emoWorthy (you know who you are)</p>
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