Kentucky fall turkey season....

coyote101 · October 24, 2011, 01:25:38 PM

.... started Saturday. A friend and I were out before daylight Saturday morning and he scored on a nice tom a little after 8:00. I tried again yesterday, and had twenty-one in the field about 8:30, but they never came closer than a hundred yards or so. I headed back out to my blind early this morning and about 7:35 ten hens came into the field eating and chasing each other around. They all got up around my decoys and I waited for one of them to seperate from the rest so I wouldn't hit more than one. One of them finally gave me a clear shot at about twenty yards and I let her have it. She went down, flopped a few times and that was it. At 7:40 my turkey hunting day was over. We can kill two during the fall gun season and two during the archery/crossbow season, so my turkey season isn't over yet.

The sun rising behind my decoys:

Looking back to the scene of the crime:

Hero shot:

A FinsandFur shout out:

Mossberg 835 scores again. I love this shotgun:

My friend Kenny shot this guy Saturday morning. A tad under twenty pounds and 11 3/4 inch beard:

Pat

bambam · October 24, 2011, 08:44:41 PM

Good job , congrats to both of you !!

iahntr · October 24, 2011, 09:11:45 PM

Congrats Pat !

Todd Rahm · October 24, 2011, 09:33:09 PM

Good stuff Pat!!!!!!!!!! I love my 835 too, but I don't have a turkey population.

nastygunz · October 24, 2011, 09:41:07 PM

Beautiful bird and all I use is my Mossberg 835, they are turkey killas!!!

Tikaani · October 24, 2011, 09:56:18 PM

Congrats Pat, one of these days I'm going to have to come down there and get one of those.

John

KySongDog · October 24, 2011, 09:57:34 PM

Congratulations, Pat, on a nice bird!

Biscuit · October 24, 2011, 10:07:14 PM

Way to go Pat

FinsnFur · October 24, 2011, 10:09:43 PM

Very nice Pat

Looked to be an awesome day to be out there too.

Hawks Feather · October 24, 2011, 10:45:34 PM

Congrats on the turkey. I only wish that I could talk turkey the way some callers do. My best bet is to not call at all.

Jerry

HaMeR · October 25, 2011, 04:07:06 AM

A couple nice birds Pat!! You sure got hooked on turkey hunting!!

A sunrise behind the turkey decoys is pure bliss.

Dave · October 25, 2011, 08:26:01 AM

Congrats Pat! Nice camera work, too. How far out are those decoys? The pic makes it look like 70/80yds.
Wish there were more birds, and huntable land around here. They closed down the fall turkey season in our area b/c of numbers being down.

coyote101 · October 25, 2011, 11:10:02 AM

Quote from: Dave on October 25, 2011, 08:26:01 AM
How far out are those decoys? The pic makes it look like 70/80yds.

Dave, my camera doesn't give great depth perception and it is hard to judge distance in those pictures, but the decoys are right at twenty-five yards. The far tree line is about a hundred thirty-five.

Quote from: Dave on October 25, 2011, 08:26:01 AM
Wish there were more birds, and huntable land around here. They closed down the fall turkey season in our area b/c of numbers being down.

This place is over run with turkeys. This group came out fairly early and I'm sure if I had waited I would have seen several more. There was a bunch in the woods behind me carrying on when this group came out. The past several times out I have counted between twenty-one and thirty-six at a time in that field.

Pat

Dave · October 26, 2011, 07:16:03 AM

Quote from: coyote101 on October 25, 2011, 11:10:02 AM
This place is over run with turkeys. Pat

Lucky! A four bird season, I guess you are over run with 'em.
I saw a bow in your video clip - that'd be incredible to get one with a bow. Good luck.

coyote101 · October 26, 2011, 08:06:34 AM

Quote from: Dave on October 26, 2011, 07:16:03 AM
I saw a bow in your video clip - that'd be incredible to get one with a bow. Good luck.

Dave,

That was my friend's bow. He was going to try for a turkey with it if offered a shot, but when the tom's came to the decoys they weren't at a good angle and he reached for his shotgun. With two of us in his blind there wasn't a lot of room to move around.

I have been trying with my bow for several weeks now, and have missed a couple. The vital zone on a turkey is pretty small and I am no Robin Hood, but I hope to get at least one before the season ends. I hit one pretty hard with my crossbow a couple of weeks ago and thought she was done for, but she got up and took off and I never could find her. A turkey doesn't leave much of a blood trail and they are tougher than I thought.

The fall gun season runs through Friday and then comes back in for a week in December. I can kill one more with a gun this year. The archery season runs continuously through January 16 and crossbows are legal again from November 16 till the end of December. I can get two with archery equipment. So, I still have a lot of turkey hunting to do this year.

Pat

WldWldWest · October 26, 2011, 10:44:16 AM

Pat, You have turned in to a regular Turkey Stomper!!!!

Good job and congrats to both of ya'll!

Frogman · October 29, 2011, 10:52:23 PM

Nice!! WTG!!

Jim

shaddragger · October 30, 2011, 09:42:54 AM

Go Mossberg! Put the HAMMER on 'em!!

nastygunz · October 30, 2011, 05:28:17 PM

Quote from: Hawks Feather on October 24, 2011, 10:45:34 PM
Congrats on the turkey. I only wish that I could talk turkey the way some callers do. My best bet is to not call at all.

Jerry

I always think i am a decent caller until I listen to Marlin Watkins or Larry Gresser then I realize I aint even on the radar with them!!

HaMeR · October 30, 2011, 09:55:14 PM

Larry Gresser makes some of the most realistic & nicest calls on the market. I made 2 scratch boxes from the plans he shared on the internet & couldn't get them to play right. I talked to him on the phone & he told me they sounded close but wanted to see them 1st hand. I sent them out & he tuned them by re-making the paddles & sent them back. Didn't want a penny for his work or time either. wwwest has one of the two. I've only ever heard of Marlin Watkins. Never seen his calling.