muddy
Well-Known Member
As most know I've been busy getting my kids tagged out and haven't had a chance to hunt myself. Finally got out and had a heckuva great hunt! I self filmed it all and am in the process of getting it edited.
I had birds scouted but did plan B instead of plan A and lost out. I left early, like 0700 early, because I was madder than a peevd off hornet. On way home drive by a small 13 acre parcel I can hunt, but never have because it's just so small. There were 2 strutters on the driveway! I let them ease into timber and I made tracks to set up on upper green weedy field. I bumped birds walking in but set up anyway... didn't have much else to do. I gavesome aggressive cutting and had a response. Did it again, response. I thought to myself, yeah right. I got the camera out and started talking to it. Not 2 minutes into my schpeel and I look over, on film, and see a bird sprinting at me! I barely got cam turned on and clipped up and he was on the deek, then he was dead! Huge hooks, big beard, bingo.
I recover the bird and while talking on camera with bird I hear gobbling close, I beat tracks into blind and cut aggressively, response. Again, response, he's coming. 10 minutes later I look out back of blind and 2 Big strutters are mean walking right at me. Get cam turned on and biggest goes by blind at 2 steps, then as he struts into view finder I pop him. Dead. Total hunt time from parking truck to last bird, maybe 45 minutes.
I'm laughing, when it's your day it's your day! I explain things much better on film, so you will have to wait a bit on full story, but I'll get it up here. 2nd bird was huge, just look at comparison on pics. Both had giant hooks, huge beards, quite heavy. The walk out was quite painful on the wrists and elbows.
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I had birds scouted but did plan B instead of plan A and lost out. I left early, like 0700 early, because I was madder than a peevd off hornet. On way home drive by a small 13 acre parcel I can hunt, but never have because it's just so small. There were 2 strutters on the driveway! I let them ease into timber and I made tracks to set up on upper green weedy field. I bumped birds walking in but set up anyway... didn't have much else to do. I gavesome aggressive cutting and had a response. Did it again, response. I thought to myself, yeah right. I got the camera out and started talking to it. Not 2 minutes into my schpeel and I look over, on film, and see a bird sprinting at me! I barely got cam turned on and clipped up and he was on the deek, then he was dead! Huge hooks, big beard, bingo.
I recover the bird and while talking on camera with bird I hear gobbling close, I beat tracks into blind and cut aggressively, response. Again, response, he's coming. 10 minutes later I look out back of blind and 2 Big strutters are mean walking right at me. Get cam turned on and biggest goes by blind at 2 steps, then as he struts into view finder I pop him. Dead. Total hunt time from parking truck to last bird, maybe 45 minutes.
I'm laughing, when it's your day it's your day! I explain things much better on film, so you will have to wait a bit on full story, but I'll get it up here. 2nd bird was huge, just look at comparison on pics. Both had giant hooks, huge beards, quite heavy. The walk out was quite painful on the wrists and elbows.
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