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Title: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: Jase on April 24, 2018, 09:32:38 PM

So I get up Saturday morning at 4:30 and I hear rain hitting the trailer pretty good. Wyatt my youngest (18) and I pretty much cashed it in. Wyatt took off the camo and went back to bed in the travel trailer and I just started drinking coffee. The lil lady ends up at 5:30 having to do her buisness at the nearest bathroom. When she got back, she tells me she is hearing birds gobbling  over the direction I wanted to hunt so I go take a listen Sure enough 2 birds close to 1/4 mile apart...one on public hunting, one on no hunting state ground. Rain was real slow right then, so I grabbed the gun. After I done MY buisness, they were still gobbling, so I take off after the one west that was huntable. I'm easing through there not knowing the area good enough and sporadically I see vaguely hens were roosted along the creek 70 yards or so.. No sooner then I cross on to public hunting, the east tom was getting LOUD. It wasn't until I could hear the air in his chest while gobbling that I realized he was following me in unknowingly . I was fortunate there was a little hill where I was standing so down it I went and quickly got against a tree and clucked for some unknown reason. 45 seconds after I sat down he was standing 20 yards at the top of that little hill. The ol H&R single got another notch.


(http://i.imgur.com/J41046I.jpg) (http://imgur.com/J41046I)

(http://i.imgur.com/F9ZQzas.jpg) (http://imgur.com/F9ZQzas)

Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: Okanagan on April 24, 2018, 10:24:32 PM
Loved the story!  That is some good hunting, good thinking and it all came together with good shooting. 
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: nastygunz on April 24, 2018, 10:47:48 PM
Nice un!
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: HaMeR on April 25, 2018, 06:23:26 AM
Nice bird!! Congratulations!!   :yoyo: :yoyo:
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: coyote101 on April 25, 2018, 07:22:45 AM
Nice job, congratulations.  :highclap: The gobblers have eluded me so far this year. I have been covered up in jakes but can't get a gobbler close.

Pat
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: pitw on April 25, 2018, 08:23:10 AM
Good job.
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: Hawks Feather on April 25, 2018, 08:44:20 AM
Congratulations on the first for 2018.  Nothing quite as good as a quick hunt when it is raining.

Jerry
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: Todd Rahm on April 25, 2018, 08:53:00 AM
Very Nice!! Looks to have nice rakers too.
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: FinsnFur on April 25, 2018, 09:14:25 PM
That'll work! Nice job
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: Jase on April 25, 2018, 09:20:57 PM
Thanks all! It was one of those hunts that will spoil a guy that's for sure! Them birds will make sure us hunters don't get to thinking it's easy....Since this bird I'm getting close but I'm seeing A LOT of henned up toms right now. Calling one in is going to be like winning a lottery for a bit. I'm switching tactics and am simply going to attempt to slip in front of the flocks preferred travel in the moment at hand.
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: nastygunz on April 25, 2018, 10:44:55 PM
I do the ambush method in the fall season alot :wink:
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: riverboss on April 26, 2018, 05:55:35 PM
Great job!!
Turkey nuggets🍗🍻

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Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: bambam on April 27, 2018, 04:01:10 PM
Good job Jase !! :yoyo:
Title: Re: My first 2018 Tom
Post by: JohnP on April 29, 2018, 11:46:37 AM
Never been on a turkey hunt, just seems like I was never in a place or had the time to do it.  Now that I have the time and in a place to do it I don't have the physical capabilities to do it. However enjoy reading all the tales from the real life turkey hunters like Jase, Pat, Johnny, bambam and the rest of you guys.