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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Slow morning. We are pulling out. Heard 2 birds way off the property but they are just not here or not using the property. 1 hen seen by 4 groups of hunters.
_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 9:29 am |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Setup again for the afternoon. Its warm... 80 degrees plus. Thermacell is cooking. We are on a new farm and saw a couple hens on the way in. My man Kyle is the triggerman!
This spot is a powerline right of way and one of the guys heard a turkey in here earlier in the week.
_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 5:17 pm |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Another slow afternoon. Turkeys are just not around.
Will give it a shot on a quick hunt in the morning and then head home!
Will be back next weekend at a different place a little further west and south of here. Hope the birds are there and more cooperative.
The bright side is the food and fellowship is good!
_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:42 pm |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Beautiful sunrise... But no gobbling anywhere...
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_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Sun Mar 21, 2010 7:18 am |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Ted and I just got to SC. Different place this weekend. Hoping to maybe get out for a quick hunt this afternoon.
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_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Fri Mar 26, 2010 3:32 pm |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Sorry for the lack of reports from this hunt... there was no cell service anywhere close... I mean D-E-A-D! Anyway... Teddy and I hunted basically 2 days and were in birds both mornings. We had a gobbler the first morning at about 60 yards but he shyed away from the decoys and slipped over to some real hens yelping in the swamp. Later in the morning we had another bird coming in and a bit of an untimely shift by Ted sent him packing. It's hard to get used to how close those birds can be when they sound so far away. He has never hunted down there and got busted thinking the bird was further away. Those WIDE open burnt pines didn't help matters! The afternoons were very slow but we managed to call in several hens in a couple sets. In fact, we called in several single and pairs of hens. No boyfriends in tow. The last morning we heard a couple birds gobble way off the property (the bain of my Low Country hunting is the birds always seem to roost and stay on the neighbors property!). Mid-morning we had a hen start talking to us and fired up a pair of gobblers off the property. She marched right into our setup but the gobblers hung back at 100 yards gobbling and then finally drifted back to parts unknown. We had a good trip... we were in birds and with a couple breaks could have easily killed one or two. It was a good experience for Ted and he had never hunted in that part ofthe world. Bring on the youth opener!!!
_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:33 am |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Heading out...
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_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 5:34 am |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Abby just killed her first gobbler!!! A nice jake! For 5 years old she didn't do too bad!!! One proud Daddy!!!
_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 7:48 am |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm Posts: 3138 Location: Goodview, VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Pic!
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_________________ "You have to pay for every bird you kill and the coin you use to pay for them is time." - Tom Kelly
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:06 am |
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peacemaker
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:15 am Posts: 2632 Location: Campbell Co., VA
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
_________________ "I'd rather look bad doing something hard than look good doing something easy." -- Tom Kelly
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:16 am |
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am Posts: 3802
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Congratulatons Abby....Thank goodness Amy has taught her well...
_________________ "even after almost a half-century of hunting of the noblest game bird I am going to confess that I am still in the kindergarten; and I doubt if any human being ever acquires a complete education in this high art."
- Archibald Rutledge
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:38 am |
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Coalman
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Apr 09, 2007 4:09 pm Posts: 1305 Location: Seacoast NH
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Way to go young lady.
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:20 am |
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CantCareSB
Longbeard
Joined: Sat Jan 27, 2007 11:10 pm Posts: 159 Location: Sc
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Re: Spring 2010 Diary...
Congrats abby! i know she's got a proud father!
_________________ "UVA UVAM VIVENDO VARIA FIT"~ Augustus McCrae, Lonesome Dove
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:03 am |
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GOBLN2
King of Spring
Joined: Sat Jan 16, 2010 12:27 am Posts: 369
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GREAT JOB ABBY !!!!!!!! I KNOW MOMMY AND DADDY ARE SOOOOOOOOO PROUD. GOBLN2
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:06 am |
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Econo
King of Spring
Joined: Thu Dec 16, 2004 10:09 pm Posts: 2070 Location: Buena Vista, Va.
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Abby, Thats one nice Gobbler!! Good Job!
_________________ If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Sat Apr 03, 2010 10:09 am |
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