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Spit n Drum
2 Year Old
Joined: Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:17 pm Posts: 89
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Finally broke the ice...
Finally I broke the ice this year on my 8th day of hunting this season. 3rd day of hunting in Kentucky. I don't have a exciting story to tell I wish I did but not much to tell. Heard some good limb gobbling. I was set up 130 yards from a lonely gobbler before daylight. And besides him fly off and walking around the road to me a hundred yards he flew across to the opposite mountain to a hen which he prob knew by name. She gave a few soft clucks and flew down and he flew all the way over to her when I was right beside him. I gave him a few soft tree yelps to let him know I was there before she even called. He answered me but he still knew where he wanted to be. Didn't hear anything the rest of day. Went to a different spot around lunch. Seen some fresh sctraching so I sat down gave a few cuts and cackles and shut up. 3 long beards came in silent. I was nodding my head fighting sleep when a spit abd drum caught my attention. I never made a call just flipped my gun on fire and waited. Since I hadn't killed one all season I didn't mess around long. Got the bead on ones head a let the hevi shot eat. Killed him at 6pm. 11 inch beard and 1 1/8 spurs. He might have weighted 18 lbs. Small body. His crawl was completely full of food. That's not a good sign. A bird thats breeding and running hard doesn't eat much. I believe their winding down here in the area I'm hunting in Ky. Felt good to feel that shotgun go off. Been a tough year on me.
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Wed May 01, 2013 11:09 pm |
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cut_un
King of Spring
Joined: Sat Feb 27, 2010 8:53 am Posts: 364 Location: Central Va.
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Nice bird! Way to go friend
_________________ Chasing Feathers, it's a way of life!
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Wed May 01, 2013 11:12 pm |
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wingboneman
Longbeard
Joined: Fri May 18, 2012 9:25 am Posts: 161 Location: Fredericksburg, Va
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Congrats
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Thu May 02, 2013 6:41 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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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Nice job, congrats
_________________ 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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Thu May 02, 2013 7:22 am |
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huntingwhoas
King of Spring
Joined: Sat Apr 19, 2008 5:27 pm Posts: 462 Location: Augusta County, VA
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Congrats!
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Thu May 02, 2013 8:05 am |
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WVBOY
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:33 pm Posts: 3038 Location: Powhatan, VA
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
I told you it would happen.. congrats man..
_________________ RB
Take me Home Country Roads.
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Thu May 02, 2013 8:44 am |
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Linebacker97
Longbeard
Joined: Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:58 pm Posts: 185 Location: Giles County, Va
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Awesomeness!!
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Thu May 02, 2013 10:41 am |
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Spit n Drum
2 Year Old
Joined: Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:17 pm Posts: 89
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Two days! Two birds! Tagged out in Ky! Foud this gobbler before daylight got with 120 yards of him on the limb. He gobbled good. I thought well I got this one. Fly down time came and I gave a few soft clucks to let him know I was there. He gobbled and as soon as I did that two old hens started raising hell and the were dead in line between me and him. I thought about spookin the hens off but I was scared he'd see me so I sat still to see what would happen. I flew down and he instantly flew down with me. He was coming hard and then the hens landed right beside him. Game over? Not!!! Let him and the hens leave me and I followed them hanging tight to see if I could get them in spot to for ambush or bush wack. He was struttin with them about a hundred yards away in a narrow mountain meadow. It had a old long nasty narrow cow drinking pond in the middle. They went down the right side and they hung out at the end of it for a while. Once I they started favoring the let side I just knew they would come back up the left side of the meadow on the opposite side of the cow pond. I crawl back out snuck around to the side they was coming down. I had a cow path that was bare dirt so I could sneak in with out making a sound. I cut the distance in half and spotted a hen. I had a rest off a cherry tree with green briars all around me I was Camo up perfect. I let her pass but she had to walk right by me to go on by she was about four yards away to my right and I was beaded down the barrel waiting for him to come out from where she came. I could feel her staring through me she cackled instead of putting and flew away from the gobbler and he gobble just out of site. I didn't bother him at all that she flew. I heard him spit n drumming and I said its about to happen. He came around the green briars in full strut at 30 yards. I had the bead on his he'd and said stick that neck up big boy. He came out of strut and lifted that neck just a tad and I let the hevi shot eat. He literally never even flopped not even when I picked him up not even a nerve kick. Felt really good to out smart this ole fella. 11 inch beard 1 inch spurs. I'm guessing 20-21 lbs. Thanks Ky for getting my season kicked started Here's the field where I busted him this is looking back at we're I was standing behind that tree to the left about thirty yards away tucked in those briars. That lil pond I was talking about is to the right. Pretty place to work one.
Last edited by Spit n Drum on Thu May 02, 2013 3:15 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Thu May 02, 2013 12:51 pm |
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WVBOY
King of Spring
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 1:33 pm Posts: 3038 Location: Powhatan, VA
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
You are rolling now.. get back to Bath county and hang one up .. I always found that May was better than april in those parts anyway..
_________________ RB
Take me Home Country Roads.
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Thu May 02, 2013 2:02 pm |
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Greyghost
King of Spring
Joined: Tue Nov 10, 2009 5:12 am Posts: 2451 Location: Midland, VA
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Way to break the ice, congratulations.
Earl
_________________ God, Family, Country, Corps and then the Wild Turkey.
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Thu May 02, 2013 2:14 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: Finally broke the ice...
Congrats on the birds man! It will bust loose in VA for you now!
_________________ "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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Thu May 02, 2013 2:15 pm |
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Turkeypicker3
2 Year Old
Joined: Fri Apr 26, 2013 10:01 am Posts: 55
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Nice job man. That photo of the bird on the grassy knoll is awesome. That is some pretty ground you were hunting. Public or private land?
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Thu May 02, 2013 4:08 pm |
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am Posts: 3806
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Very good couple of days for you. Nice birds.
_________________ "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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Thu May 02, 2013 4:26 pm |
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beardbuster84
King of Spring
Joined: Thu Apr 01, 2010 8:48 pm Posts: 790 Location: Westmoreland co. Va
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Well that's Awesome Feels Great Mite fire up an limit out
_________________ "If the good Lord is willing and the creeks don't rise." Hank Williams
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Thu May 02, 2013 5:15 pm |
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Spit n Drum
2 Year Old
Joined: Wed Apr 03, 2013 1:17 pm Posts: 89
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Re: Finally broke the ice...
Thanks everyone! All I can say is that it felt good. I was on private the whole time this year both trips. I've got permission from a dozen or so people now. This is my forth year down there hunting this area. I learn sonething new every year and get a few new places to hunt each year. I watch for gobblers in fields and what not and just stop and ask if I can hunt. All they can say is no.
That grassy knob there is where I was standing at daylight I killed him on the next ridge. I took that pic on the way back to the truck. The hunting was bad. The birds didn't gobble hardly at all. Even tho I tagged out it wasn't that great of hunting or I should say gobbling. Im pretty good and sneaking and bush wacking. If I kill him with a shotgun I don't care how I get him as long as he's on the ground and I have a shotgun in my hand and did dang good with getting both these gobblers.
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Thu May 02, 2013 5:24 pm |
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