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OLD beat up mountain bird
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King of Spring  Joined: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:09 pm Posts: 2070 Location: Buena Vista, Va. 
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 OLD beat up mountain birdWent out on Nat. Forest this morning, Heard 0 gobbles at day break. So I call a little and nothing. Walk out ridge about 600 yards call and I was cut off by a goblle. I get set up and called for about 30 min and all I got was a coutesy goble every now and then. Then all goes quiet. I moved out the ridge another 100 yards and get set up. Called with mouth call nothing, call with glass nothing, pulled the old Lynch box out and he double gobbles. I wait and he gobles again sounds like he cutting the distance. I call he goblles. After about 20 minutes he goes quite. Then I hear a hen yelp, so I start calling to her, She gets fired up and the gobler takes off again, There together. So I start mocking every call the hen makes, she is getting closer, finally I spot them, 2 hens and 1 big strutting long beard. There coming out the ridge heading for me. Then all of a sudden the hens cut up the hill, with ole big boy on there tail strutting. I had 1 shot about 40 yards, it was a little thick, I decided not to take the shot in hopes that a better one would come available ( NOT ) they went over ridge top out of sight. I called hoping to bring them back, Then I hear a deep cluck below me I looked and hear comes 2 jakes and a long beard. They walked by me about 15 yards away, then the long beard follows pattern. I cracked down on him and he flopped about 100 yards straight down the mountain. Odd bird, 3 short tail feathers on one side of fan, the rest was a full fan. One spur nub, the other 3/4 inch, beard 8 1/2 inches, weight 16 3/4 pounds
 _________________ If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. Theodore Roosevelt |
| Mon Apr 24, 2006 4:56 pm |
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2 Year Old
Joined: Tue May 10, 2005 5:53 pm Posts: 58 Location: Middlebrook, VA
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Congrats! As soon as Max reads this I'll get a call that he wants to go up on the mountain and chase another one flopping down the side!
 WAY TO GO! |
| Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:16 pm |
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King of Spring
Joined: Sun Dec 05, 2004 4:50 pm Posts: 2650 Location: central Va
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He's had a rough spring for sure! Congrats!
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| Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:12 pm |
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2 Year Old
Joined: Tue Dec 21, 2004 10:38 pm Posts: 71 Location: West Virginia
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Nice job. Congrats.
 _________________ DRS |
| Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:28 pm |
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King of Spring  Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:33 pm Posts: 3038 Location: Powhatan, VA
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Gotta love it.
Congrats.. _________________ RB Take me Home Country Roads. |
| Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:30 pm |
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Boss Gobbler  Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Congrats!
_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly |
| Mon Apr 24, 2006 8:33 pm |
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King of Spring
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:30 pm Posts: 988 Location: Lexington
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Sounds like a great hunt, congrats.
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| Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:14 pm |
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King of Spring
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 9:08 pm Posts: 604 Location: Christiansburg, VA
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I'd say that guy had seen his better days. Who knows how old that one might have been... Great Job!!
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| Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:20 pm |
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Longbeard
Joined: Thu Apr 21, 2005 9:43 am Posts: 295 Location: Fredericksburg
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Awesome...
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| Tue Apr 25, 2006 7:32 am |
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King of Spring  Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:40 pm Posts: 1485 Location: Middlebrook VA
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congrads Todd!!
_________________ "Son You've Got Three Choices in Life, Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way!" -Joe Rowe- http://www.jkttv.com Max |
| Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:10 am |
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Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am Posts: 3806
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one year in My in really big mountains in Tenn I killed one that weighed 12.5 pounds , had 1.25 spurs ....he was ready to check out ..sort o f l ike yours probably.
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| Tue Apr 25, 2006 9:25 am |
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King of Spring  Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:46 am Posts: 753 Location: Hampton, VA.
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Good Job, great bird
 _________________ Ron "Turkey hunting, when you knock all the feathers off it, is a game of infinite variables, played on a field of unlimited dimension, against an opponent who doesn't know the rules and wouldn't play by them if he did." ...Jim Spencer |
| Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:09 pm |
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King of Spring  Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:27 am Posts: 1907 Location: Roanoke, VA
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Gotta love those national forest mountain birds
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| Tue Apr 25, 2006 12:14 pm |
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King of Spring
Joined: Thu Dec 09, 2004 2:25 pm Posts: 2092
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Good Job Todd!!
Doug |
| Tue Apr 25, 2006 4:53 pm |
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King of Spring
Joined: Wed Apr 05, 2006 2:30 pm Posts: 317 Location: SHARON VA
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odd bird Good Job! I guess like any other animal you'll see an oddball every now and then.
_________________ "You see that mountain? One of these days I'm gonna climb that mountain" |
| Wed Apr 26, 2006 12:06 pm |
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