Author Topic: Mine and OneHorn's Opener Birds (Read 8785 times)

fishunt247 · « **on:** April 16, 2009, 09:47:48 AM »

I'll have more for a write up later, but I gotta head off to school. We killed these birds about an hour apart last night after we finally found some birds that weren't henned up super bad. Both had 8" beards. Mine had 5/8" spurs, Justin's had just under 1/2" spurs...typical for two years olds in that country.

fishunt247 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 16, 2009, 09:51:28 AM »

My bird

fishunt247 · « **Reply #2 on:** April 16, 2009, 09:53:05 AM »

Justin's Bird

jackelope · « **Reply #3 on:** April 16, 2009, 09:57:40 AM »

sweet...congrats. can't wait to get out there this weekend.

bowhunterforever · « **Reply #4 on:** April 16, 2009, 10:30:46 AM »

Congrats on the birds guys.

I have had a couple almosts.

Elkstuffer · « **Reply #5 on:** April 16, 2009, 11:07:26 AM »

Good job guys. Finding sheds are always a nice bonus this time of year.

rosscrazyelk · « **Reply #6 on:** April 16, 2009, 11:15:25 AM »

Nice Birds.. Cant wait til I get to go.

Michelle_Nelson · « **Reply #7 on:** April 16, 2009, 12:03:16 PM »

Great looking birds guys !

wazzuhunter · « **Reply #8 on:** April 16, 2009, 12:23:49 PM »

Nice work fishhunt and onehorn.

Machias · « **Reply #9 on:** April 16, 2009, 12:45:57 PM »

Beautiful birds, congrats!!

Gobble · « **Reply #10 on:** April 16, 2009, 01:05:16 PM »

Awesome, congrats!

fishunt247 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 16, 2009, 01:14:19 PM »

After being on super henned up birds at light, we finally found another bird at noon. Where we were it was so open though that only came to two hundred yards, stood in the same spot and gobbled for about ten minutes, and left. He figured he should have been able to see the hen, being as I could see him. Oh well. We relocated in the evening, and struck gold. About 5:30 we were walking down the road, hadn't even called yet, and a hen yelped about 60 yards away. We made a mad dash to set up. After yelping back and forth for about ten minutes, I could hear the gobbler spit & drum. He ran out into the road 3/4 strut with the hen running behind him, and got in full strut when he hit the road. I had to wait for the hen to move (I didn't want to take her with him), then he popped his head up at 15 steps and I shot him. Then we walked up the hill about a half mile, yelping a lot because it was so windy. Finally we got an answer really close at about 6:30 to some cuts, and set up real quick. I guess when Dad and Justin sat down they could already hear him spitting. I yelped a few more times, but he was already committed. He popped out of strut and Justin shot him at about 12 yards. We may have been set up on that bird for three minutes, a flash hunt for sure. Oh and I just talked to Dad, and Justin called in a bird for him this morning...9" beard, 5/8" spurs. Its been a great two days for sure.

Wacenturion · « **Reply #12 on:** April 16, 2009, 02:18:40 PM »

Congratulations....nice to see it happen like that for everyone. Great pictures...good looking birds. I'm assuming you hunted in Kittitas?.

agchawk · « **Reply #13 on:** April 16, 2009, 02:22:40 PM »

NICE! CONGRATS

Slider · « **Reply #14 on:** April 16, 2009, 04:16:12 PM »

Nice Birds!!! fishunt247 did you rattle in the first one?............

robb92 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 16, 2009, 04:24:11 PM »

Beautiful birds

fishunt247 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 16, 2009, 04:44:19 PM »

Those would make beautiful rattlin horns wouldn't they? No, Justin found those earlier... apparently they helped get our chi together, so they deserved a spot in the pic.

fc2038 · « **Reply #17 on:** April 16, 2009, 06:36:44 PM »

that first pic is a really nice lookin bird. Congrats!

btlsoom · « **Reply #18 on:** April 16, 2009, 07:20:03 PM »

Sweet, congrats on the birds..

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Tom Tamer · « **Reply #19 on:** April 16, 2009, 09:19:46 PM »

Nice job guys......man it's killin me to get out there......now I suppose you gotta burn some gas money for the rest of the season.....but well worth it!

Beautiful fan on yours too, looks like a real wide fan also. Gotta love those Merriam's

WCTaxidermy · « **Reply #20 on:** April 16, 2009, 09:32:58 PM »

Great Job guy's. Those are two great looking birds. John

C-Money · « **Reply #21 on:** April 16, 2009, 10:31:12 PM »

Looks like you guys had fun, Congrats!

jager · « **Reply #22 on:** April 17, 2009, 01:23:08 AM »

Quote

Nice Birds!!! fishunt247 did you rattle in the first one?............

Funny

It's been said a bunch already. Great looking birds!

rasbo · « **Reply #23 on:** April 17, 2009, 05:32:46 AM »

great pics looks like a good time,glad to see some folks harvesting some

hornhunter · « **Reply #24 on:** April 17, 2009, 07:41:22 AM »

Good birds

Diehard0123 · « **Reply #25 on:** April 17, 2009, 07:54:46 AM »

Outstanding Job guys, nice birds.

Jerbear · « **Reply #26 on:** April 17, 2009, 10:12:30 PM »

Good going guys. Dad looks right proud.

Jekemi · « **Reply #27 on:** April 19, 2009, 04:20:30 PM »

Fishhunt247: I met you the other day at Jerry's house. Great looking birds. I got mine the very next morning. Looking forward to the write up on these birds. I'm compiling all the Turkey hunting stories from the Hunt-WA site into a single document. I'll make the booklet available to the site.

fishunt247 · « **Reply #28 on:** April 19, 2009, 06:02:20 PM »

Actually you met my younger brother, but he told me he stopped by Jerry's. Glad you got one. And good idea on the stories. Will have more on the way

OneHorn · « **Reply #29 on:** April 19, 2009, 10:28:22 PM »

I was a very fun day for us! I owe fishunt247 a lot of thanks for the awsome calling, He could have left to go back to his house after he killed his but he stuck around and helped pull mine in.

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