Turkey Slayer's season slow but good

[turkey slayer]

Well as lots of you no that my work schedule was really messed up this year working 6 and 7 days a week so I really couldn't get very much hunting in but when I did we got birds early and late season.

Well it started the night be for opener when I had my uncle and cougerklr go out to but bird to bed because I was working late. The 2 found a bird and they roosted him down in a draw were the normally are.

Next morning my uncle and I went in and set up the ground blind and waited for light. I started calling 10 min after day break and he gobbles. The lone tom was about 250 yards from us on the other side of the creek. I was really didn't think the tom would come in. After sitting for 2 hours the tom went the other way with a few hens.

While we were hunting in are spot cougerklr was hunting much higher then us and he was into bird left an rite but just couldn't make any thing happen but he had some really close call.

Opening Night it started rain and no birds came into the field we were hunting.

Day 2

Well we decide that we were going to do a 4 mile loop around the mountain and it paid off.

well left the property and every 15 min or so we set up and called. If nothing had talked or came in by 20 min or half hour we would move on. Well around 700 we finally got a bird to talk about 50 yard away from us in a little stand of jack pines but I think he seen us and he had hens. We moved up the ridge 400+ yards and got into a another bird but there was a fence line in the way and he would not cross it. ( Cougerklr called the bird in the next day but he would not step out from behind a stump pile. I guess he is 11+ wow nice bird.)

Well about a hour later we get to another ridge that we call lower strut lane and I did a few yelps and cuts and I herd a bird a long ways from us mile + what I am thinking. So I told my uncle and cougerklr that we needed to cut distance to this birds. We got 300 yards down the hill and I called off the ZINK Power Hen Slat and the gobbled a couple huntred yard away down from us. We set up with hen decoy in front of us 3 and and I started to call. Every time I called he gobbled, but there was on problem I could see he was coming beside us and there was a really brushy draw and 2 creeks for this bird to cross. Well after 10 min. the tom was 100 yards away on the ridge across the creek gobbling his head off. Then he shut up for about a min and a half I thought he was gone in til I looked up and he is standing 10 yard from my uncle looking around.  He started to run down the ridge  and I did a call from my reed and he turned and started gobbling and coming back in rite to the decoy but now there was 2 toms together and the on came into the opening 25 yards away and my uncle put the hammer down but we couldn't get a 2ed shot at the other one.

This should be a lessen to every one you can call a bird through anything. Phantom and cougerklr are wittiness from hunts past. But that is why they all so call us Team AT&T cause we can call them through anything.

My uncles first bird 9inch tom. Great hunt thanks

[turkey slayer]

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[turkey slayer]

More storys to come and pics

[Wacenturion]

Good for you.  Getting your uncle his first bird is in itself a great season.  Glad to see after all these years he finally made time to get after it.  He's a great guy and as you know, was there way back when all this wonderful stuff all started.  Spent some quality time with him over the years.  You're a lucky guy to have an uncle like him.

Say hello for me.  

[Machias]

Love the photos with the big rocks, congrats and great stories!!  Thanks for sharing.

[turkey slayer]

Well the next time I got out was in middle may and what I seen was if you could find a bird to gobble then you had a pretty good chance of getting one. Herd 5 separate birds gobble and I called in all 5 and got 3 of them.

Well this would be only the 3ed day that I hunted. The 14th of May. This weekend I had a father and son  my dads buddy out of the camp.

Well my goal way to try to beat yelp in are little comation that we had this year and the only way that I was going to be able to do that is in late season.

Without roosting any bird the night be for hunting I thought I would go to a roosting area that I call big bird/lone bird roosting area. This are has been real good to me in the past for real big toms (last year 10 1/2 year and 2 year be for that a 10 1/4 always a good area for late hunting) but I didn't hear anything, the wind was blowing 20MPH and raining that could of been part of the problem. I sat the for 101/2 hour just listening but nothing.

So I started doing the big loop and in 5 hours I didn't even here one gobble. So the plan was to go really high to see if there was anything up there but first I wanted to see if anyone got anything in my dad group so I went back to the property.

When I got back to the property they were all there with nothing hanging so I asked if they wanted to go for a ride up high to a meadow that we have gotten birds out of.

Few hours later we get to the meadow and nothing not even a gobble not even any sign. At this point I didn't no what to do or were to g exept to try really low.

So we went back to camp and started to get another game plan (2:00). We were sitting there and I herd my 1st gobble and it came from lone bird/big bird roosting area. So we get into the truck and drive within a half mile of him. One thing I want to add is the boy that is hunting with me only has 1 leg and the other is prosthetic leg and I tell you what he is a trooper. So I really wanted him to get a shot it wasn't about me anymore it was about him.

So I move to were I thought it would be close and I started calling and he gobble about 80 or so yard away and he came rite in to about 50 yards but we couldn't get a shot because of some jack pines that were in the way. We could see him but he couldn't get a shot. He was a big tom. So we back out of there slow and went back to camp to get plan D. Well my dads buddy son was pretty tired so he really didn't wan to go on a night hunt with us so the dad and I went. I thought I would go really low down by the river to a little 180acres state piece.

First call I gave out he gobbled 1/2 of a mile a way and then he wouldn't shut up. He started double and triple gobbling and he was coming in fast and be for we new it he was standing 25 yards in front of us so I shot he went down and got back up well 2 shots later he finally went down. My first tom of the year after some hard hunting I got a 9 1/8 incher not the biggest but after this year it will do.

So we got him taged up and started out of the state property after being in there for 15 min. Down to my uncles to see if he had any bird coming in.

Well we got to my uncles and we roosted a tom and a jake so the plane was to hunt them in the morning. Story soon to come Pics of my tom

[turkey slayer]

Well day 4

We got to my uncles and the tom was already gobbling up in his home. We got my ground blind about 300 yards away set up and I started doing some tree yelp and he was getting fired up.

Well at 5:40 the 2 red heads hit the ground and they were coming strait in but there was 2 fences in the way.  I knew I had to get real aggressive with calling so I started yelping and cutting real hard and under on and they flew over the 2ed and strait into us a 40 yard and I had them shot. The big tom drops and the jack flew up and ran away.

Thanks for the great hunt through out the weekend and Brandon you really opened my eyes in what you really can do. Thanks again and see you this fall.

[carpsniperg2]

Good deal, some nice birds.

[turkey slayer]

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[Heartsblood]

Way to go! Thanks for sharing the pics and a great detailed report of your time in the woods.

[Phantom Gobbler]

Slayer, Congrats on turning an iffy season into a very successful one!         Turkey Slayer comes through again!

Once again you helped others harvest some very nice toms and you also bagged a mature gobbler to put you in the running with Yelp!!   

Great pics too and thanks for sharing.  Looks like you are getting some good use out of the new blind!

We needed your "don't take no for an answer calling" on the two birds I was able to tag this year.  On two separate occasions we were able to get them in close ... but both times they would not cross a fence!

Hope to hookup again this Fall!

[turkeydancer]

 
Great memories are made once more ... kudos !

[turkey slayer]

It was a hard season with weather and work but every chance that I got I was out there o one thing I for got  to say I missed a bird all so around the 1s of may but we wont go into that.

Phantom what can I say I was starting have my doughts but as you no better then anyone I come through, and yes see ya this fall if not sooner