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Title: Short and sweet, Long beard down
Post by: PA BEN on April 15, 2013, 08:19:47 PM: My turkey hunt started with finger surgery on the 8th. I wasn’t going to burn vacation this year to hunt turkeys but I am off work for a week on sick leave so I thought I’d head over to Chewelah and visit Mom and Dad. I had to come back today the 15th. . (Doctor Appointment finger), so I didn’t know if I would buy a tag or not. Went over on the 10th and started to pattern the local turkeys. I’ve hunted this area for 20 years so I know all the turkey roosting areas and where to set up on the birds in a given area. By Sunday I was sure I could get my bird and make it home at a decent hour so I bought my tags. $$$$$$$$$$$$ No small game discount unless you buy them all.
So Sunday afternoon I made a little ground blind and marked spots for my decoys. Not going to use a flash light because I’m real close to the roost and have been busted before in this area. I was putting out my decoys at 4am I had to feel around for the sticks and pine cones I set out for my tom decoy. It was on a little rise in case they went the other way so they would see it.
I was all set by 4:47am and at 4:55 a hen did a little yelp and the whole world lit up with gobbles. They were about 100yds up the ridge. At 5:10 I made some soft yelps and they lit up again, by 5:20 or so the hens and gobblers were at it. When it got quite I did another soft yelp. Then a tom flew down from the ridge and landed in the top of a pine tree above my decoys then pitched down and landed right in front of me at 10yds. I knew he was a tom but I couldn’t see how big his beard was because he was facing me, then he turned and “O YEAH” long beard. (I didn’t want to shoot one of the jakes I was seeing). He walked behind at tree I raised my gun and when he cleared the other side of the tree I gave him a load of #6’s at 9 yards. Legal hour was 5:26am I shot him at 5:39. The other toms were still in the roost with the hens if I had another tag I would have waited and called in another tom. So I picked up my decoys threw them in my blind grabbed my bird and got outa there before they knew what happened. I have more family hunting. They came out just like they did the last 5 days. After I cleaned my bird I went and got my decoys and stuff and was on the road by 9 home by 6:30. What a great day, God is good.
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Title: Re: Short and sweet, Long beard down
Post by: carpsniperg2 on April 15, 2013, 08:24:32 PM: Good looking bird, congrats :tup: :tup:
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Post by: Dan-o on April 15, 2013, 08:26:12 PM: Nice.

I really like that first pic.

Thanks for sharing.
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Post by: kirkl on April 15, 2013, 08:28:07 PM: Nice one. Gotta live sick days lol
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Post by: Skyvalhunter on April 15, 2013, 08:28:18 PM: :tup:
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Post by: Wacenturion on April 15, 2013, 08:31:22 PM: Congratulations. :tup:
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Post by: ghosthunter on April 15, 2013, 08:35:14 PM: :tup:
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Post by: blackveltbowhunter on April 15, 2013, 08:46:42 PM: :tup: Nice bird!!
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Post by: Bigluke1981 on April 15, 2013, 08:52:45 PM: Very nice, congrats on a great morning!!
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Post by: Birdguy on April 15, 2013, 09:02:10 PM: Nice work Ben 8) 8). Gotta love it when a plan comes together :IBCOOL:. I believe that is almost exactly what I read your plan was yesterday. Hope all goes well with the Doc as well :tup:
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Post by: buckhorn2 on April 15, 2013, 09:04:00 PM: Nice. Good when a good plan comes together and still time to make it home.
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Post by: Gobble Doc on April 15, 2013, 09:05:10 PM: Great story. Great bird.
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Post by: Tom Tamer on April 15, 2013, 09:19:04 PM: Nice.
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Post by: ChadH on April 15, 2013, 10:02:04 PM: Way to go! :)
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Post by: MerriamMagician on April 15, 2013, 11:11:34 PM: Awesome story!! :IBCOOL:
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Post by: WaltAlpine on April 15, 2013, 11:12:04 PM: :tup:
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Post by: Butchmeathook on April 16, 2013, 06:40:30 AM: Nice bird!!
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on April 16, 2013, 08:50:48 AM: LBD!!! :tup:
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Post by: rosscrazyelk on April 16, 2013, 10:19:56 AM: Cool pics.. how do I get to your parents place? :chuckle:
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Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on April 16, 2013, 10:53:26 AM: Right on Pa ...fine bird ....one more week and am there :tup:
Title: Short and sweet, Long beard down
Post by: Austrian Hunter on April 16, 2013, 12:25:45 PM: Cool deal!! I just got done hunting, for two days from 4:30am to 12pm and no bird down:-(
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Post by: Amh140 on April 16, 2013, 01:19:19 PM: Nice Work! :tup:
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Post by: rainshadow1 on April 16, 2013, 01:50:05 PM: :tup: Thanks for the story!
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Post by: EDT on April 16, 2013, 08:23:07 PM: AWESOME SEQUENCE OF PHOTOS!!!
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Post by: kevinlisa06 on April 16, 2013, 10:00:34 PM: Nice bird!
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Post by: turkeydancer on April 20, 2013, 07:51:24 AM: :whoo:
Bet the finger felt tons better and the drive back seemed lots shorter too ...
Congrats PB on the nice tom !!!
:tup:
Title: Re: Short and sweet, Long beard down
Post by: Huntboy on April 20, 2013, 08:11:15 AM: Congrats, nice bird. Thanks for the story and pics.
Title: Re: Short and sweet, Long beard down
Post by: PA BEN on April 20, 2013, 06:08:55 PM: Thanks guys and yes the drive was nice. Looks like a lot of nice Tom's are hitting the dirt.
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Post by: washingtonmuley on April 20, 2013, 08:08:32 PM: Nice work !!