Stay Tuned for a Blooper Video (Video Posted) Bring on the roasting!

[tlbradford]

Will post a teaching moment when we get home.  Big time Daddy Fail.    

[MtnMuley]

Glad to see you're still around, even if it's just bloopers

[tlbradford]

It's nice to be back.  Life is normalizing and I finally have some time to catch up on everyone's adventures.  I am trying to figure out how to edit the video clip and it will be up and running.  We watched the uncut version a few minutes ago and it was pretty funny. 

[tlbradford]

Good Lord, You Tube says another 800 minutes for upload to be complete.  Here are a couple of screen shots.  We called in around 20 turkeys.  A group of 15 or so and another group of 5.  They converged on our spot around 4 pm.  It didn't end perfectly, but we really got to enjoy another great experience in the woods.  A hen fight, lots of vocals that included gobbles, cuts, yelps, purrs, putts, spitting and drumming, strutting toms, and a funny sequence with a pair of toms and the decoy.  I will give the full story with the video.  Anyway, can you guess the blooper from the screen captures?

[BOWHUNTER45]

Come on man ...BH45 wants to see ...can not wait to get over there !  Sure miss those youth hunts !!!

[REHJWA]

Come on man ...BH45 wants to see ...can not wait to get over there !  Sure miss those youth hunts !!!

 :yeah:when will your 800 minutes be up....the bloopers make for great memories too...looking forward to it....

[ghosthunter]

I bet he shoots the decoy.

[haugenna]

Tagging

[tlbradford]

Geez. 80 minutes left. No luck this morning over a set of dekes.  Called a small tom in running and gunning around 2 pm, but it pegged us before she could get on it.

[Jester052]

How'd the final 80 go?

[tlbradford]

In case you want to watch quickly, here is a quick synopsis:
Minute 0-2 - Watch if you like listening to turkey vocals and me coaching my daughter.  I was facing the turkeys through the trees, and she was keeping focused on her shooting lane.  We were not in a blind, just a stand of jack pines and brush that I had cleared out.  This is also the reason I didn't move the camera.  I was worried the movement would get us busted before they came into her shooting window.
2-3:15 - pretty boring, just me letting her know they were on there way in and the toms would be the first things she would see.
3:30-5:30 - two toms strutting and rushing at the deke.  The deke unfortunately was behind brush.
5:30 - I set the camera down after the shot to reload.  I only give her one shell at a time and it was flopping around
5:40 - Shotgun gets set down when it quits flopping and lies still.
5:40 - 6:50 the blooper.  You can stop watching after that.  Nothing else happens.  For some reason I didn't cut the movie properly.

[asmith]

Says video is private.  Can't watch

[haugenna]

Can't see the vid

[tlbradford]

How about now?  I changed to public.

[haugenna]

Did you get the bird?

[REHJWA]

Now you have a story about the one that got away..... good luck next round.

[tlbradford]

Nope.  It lost us.  When I went back for the shotgun, it entered some trees.  We searched for over an hour.  She hit it hard.  There was bone fragments from the top/front of its wing.  She was disappointed, but I told her it was 100% my fault.  I was too busy looking at the back of the camera screen to see it was starting to move again.

[Jester052]

There is always the General season!  You'll get em. Its how you come back that builds a great hunter.

[270Shooter]

Dang that is a tough way to lose one. I bet you don't let her walk up to one without her gun again lol. It's a good reminder for everyone else as well. Usually once I shoot one I just get up as fast as I can to him and step on his head if he's flopping a bunch.

[Dan-o]

Wow, I thought that bird was dead.


Thanks for sharing.

[tlbradford]

Dang that is a tough way to lose one. I bet you don't let her walk up to one without her gun again lol. It's a good reminder for everyone else as well. Usually once I shoot one I just get up as fast as I can to him and step on his head if he's flopping a bunch.

Yep.  That is exactly why I dropped the camera quickly.  To reload and go grab it's kegs and step on its neck.  Then it just stopped thrashing completely.  I hate that we lost it, but it is a teachable moment, so I post this so others can learn from my mistake.

[270Shooter]

Dang that is a tough way to lose one. I bet you don't let her walk up to one without her gun again lol. It's a good reminder for everyone else as well. Usually once I shoot one I just get up as fast as I can to him and step on his head if he's flopping a bunch.

Yep.  That is exactly why I dropped the camera quickly.  To reload and go grab it's kegs and step on its neck.  Then it just stopped thrashing completely.  I hate that we lost it, but it is a teachable moment, so I post this so others can learn from my mistake.

no doubt. Live and learn, she'll get another one I'm sure.

[turkeydancer]

    
That's too bad, but I had the same thing happen to me years ago ... I knew the first bird was down and I thought done .... went after the second bird and nailed it ... came back with secong bird to get the first and it was gone ... searched for hours and never found it.
.

At least you got to spend quality time with your daughter and have the general season ahead of you both.   

[pianoman9701]

Well, you both learned a lesson and did it together. Still makes a great day out! 

[hdshot]

That happened to me twice last year.  On the third one I grab it to quick causing it to kick and flop then my hand got spurred hard.  Sill hurts if the wound gets bumped wrong and next time step I will step on their head until they are done flopping.  I knew better because grew up pheasant hunting but two to many nightmares last season to care until it happened.