I found Semp!

FinsnFur · April 25, 2015, 09:12:24 AM

slagmaker · April 25, 2015, 09:19:37 AM

Lot of uneducated people speaking there uneducated minds in the comments following the video.

nastygunz · April 25, 2015, 10:21:51 AM

Wowzzer

KySongDog · April 30, 2015, 05:37:29 PM

That guy is nuckin futs!

FinsnFur · April 30, 2015, 07:50:13 PM

HE LIVES!!
Where you been hiding Semp? Predator Masters?

KySongDog · April 30, 2015, 10:06:18 PM

I have not had much time lately so I had to pull back from all the forums.

I did find time to turkey hunt though.

I tagged out with my second bird this morning. Last year I ate tag soup. This year I had better luck.

FinsnFur · April 30, 2015, 10:38:04 PM

Aaaaand you forgot your camera?

riverboss · May 01, 2015, 04:18:24 AM

Hey Johny great to hear your still kicking! Sounds like the turkey gods were good to you

KySongDog · May 01, 2015, 06:08:22 AM

Quote from: FinsnFur on April 30, 2015, 10:38:04 PM
Aaaaand you forgot your camera?

I had my cell phone with me. This was the first one on April 24. He was a long way off on the opposite ridge and I almost didn't take the shot. But he wasn't getting any closer and those new Win XR long beard shells throw a great pattern so...... BOOM!

1 inch spurs and 9 1/2 inch beard.

Yesterday's bird gobbled his head off for 30-45 minutes before thunder struck. I moved on him two or three times to get closer and make him think a hen was coming his way. He finally came up hill along an old logging road and I saw him at 35 steps. 1 inch spurs and 10 1/4 beard.

I guesstimate both birds at 2 years old, maybe three. I didn't weigh them but they felt like 50 lbs each by the time I made the long hike back to the truck. I'm starting to feel my age me thinks.

Okanagan · May 01, 2015, 09:39:43 AM

Good story and pics! Good for you. Would love to hunt those things some day. You have amazing-to-me skill and patience and know how to coax one into shotgun range and make the kill.

Since this is a caring and sensitive safe community, I will admit (again?) that I have a craving to shoot the head off of a wild turkey from way across a field with my tack driving 6mm rifle. I know that such craving is a western disease with abhorrent symptoms that devolve into shooting grouse and ptarmigan with a .22.

Hello, my name is Okanagan and I am a rifleholic...

coyote101 · May 01, 2015, 11:45:40 AM

Way to go Johnny!

I like the looks of your shootin' iron.

Pat

gravesco hunter · May 01, 2015, 04:08:50 PM

Very nice birds glad to see some birds on the ground

FinsnFur · May 01, 2015, 07:41:16 PM

Quote from: Okanagan on May 01, 2015, 09:39:43 AM
Hello, my name is Okanagan and I am a rifleholic...

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Awesome job on both birds Johnny

You bet. Thanks for sharing it. Good to have ya back ya ole codger.

nastygunz · May 01, 2015, 07:45:56 PM

.....what were you using for calling?

gravesco hunter · May 01, 2015, 08:38:47 PM

I would say if the spurs were 1 inch sharp they were 3 yr old

Hawks Feather · May 01, 2015, 09:59:54 PM

Glad to see that you are getting out and getting birds. I have gotten pretty good at getting ButterBall turkeys. They are really easy to clean and there is no shot in them. Maybe they were head shot with a rifle...

Jerry