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[sticknstring]

The shotgun on the first day!??? You must not be very confident this year!

[DonBo]

Early reports say the shotgun worked just fine.

[Archerysniper]

I love the smell of 2oz load of #6's in the morning

[sticknstring]

Where's the pics?!?

[hugonian1]

Oh, I am liking this "rumor".

The calm before the storm can really pay off.

Can't wait to hear the story & see some pics AS.

[Archerysniper]

A teaser pic

[Archerysniper]

[hugonian1]

You are a teaser.

Definately not a Jake.

[123fish]

Way to go archerysniper! Can't wait for the story and the pics.

[Archerysniper]

I will get the pic's loaded and submitted tomorrow with a little recap from the hunt.

Just some stats,18# 9-1/4" beard and a 5/8 broken spur on one side and a 7/8" on the other side.

[Archerysniper]

Oh and a 18 yard shot turned it's head into jello.

[hugonian1]

Looks like a nice bird AS.

I am guessing he dropped in his tracks.

No wasted meat there.

Way to get us on the board.

Can't wait to hear the story.

[123fish]

The head on that bird looks like your aim was right on. Nicely done!

[DonBo]

Of course he was only 18 yds with the bow still in the closet huh? That's the way it works.

[sticknstring]

Nice pic there AS! With the weather moving in, I bet you feel pretty good about punching that tag already!

[DanOmite19]

Well Jack waited all of 10 minutes to drop a turkey last fall, and this spring it only took 15 minutes. Ha! We barely got the blind set up, and had a few hens come running in to the sound of Jack yelping on the box. They stood there 5' from us, live decoys, just waiting until the boys came running in. A few young jakes and one mature pig... Jack showed great patience as he had to wait for the tom to clear the jakes, and pass on a 10 yard shot. The tom then crossed to the far window walking away from us following the hens that were now headed to the field. I gave one yelp and he extended for a big gobble.. BOOM!!!! And here we are... 26yards, dropped right there. He is pumped, and "Go Gobble Kings!" He says.

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[hugonian1]

Congrats Jack- that is a great looking bird, it looks almost as big as you.

The smile says it all.

25 minutes and 2 birds.

The "guide" must be proud.

Way to go!

"Gobble Kings" are on a roll.

[sticknstring]

Way to go Jack! That young man is hooked for life! Congrats to the both of you!

[Archerysniper]

WooHoo congrat's on another great bird. Go team

[DonBo]

Jack looks awefully happy. WTG, both of you! Gobble Kings is off to a great start.

[Hodgy17]

Man those birds are some hawgs!

[ANYFISH2]

way to go guys, nice birds for sure.

look to be a nice start to the season.

[Archerysniper]

Well here's a recap of yesterdays hunt. I had been out to this property twice scouting and had not heard a gobble but the sign was everywhere on the hill in this picked corn field with one spot that showed it was the preferred strutting zone on the melted off hill side. From past hunts I have learned it is easier to call a bird to where they want to go so I set my blind right in the strut zone.

Wed morning I climbed into the blind at 5:15 and fired up the heater to wait for some gobbles on the roost which never happened. This had me kind of worried that the birds my have moved onto a different property,they normally roost about 75 to 100 yards behind me on a big ridge. At 6:15 I have 4 deer come out and feed around me in the corn for a half hour and still not a gobble anywhere.

I had already decided with the way this spring has been and the birds not broke up yet that I wasn't going to use a decoy or hardly call at all. With the toms more then likely hanging with the hens I didn't want to have them pull the toms away from a decoy or the calls of a strange hen. By 7:15 I had only called one time without a response so I just sat back in the blind and closed the windows on the windy side to keep more heat in. I was starting to get hungry and pulled out the salt shaker and hard boiled eggs from my pack for breakfast when I was caught off guard by 2 yelps down the corn field. I pulled my face mask down and peeked out to see 9 hens walk out into the corn and start picking around. Figuring that one of the toms would be following behind the ladies I get moved around in the blind and the shotgun poked out the window and let out 5 soft yelps on the slate call,nothing not a gobble and the hens look my way and feed away from me. I hit the slate call hard then trying for a gobble with the same result nothing. So I put my calls down and just watched them feed around waiting for a tom to come up the logging road and into the field. Those hens stuck around till 7:45 before the headed west to the neighbors corn field.

From 7:45 till before 9 I just sat back watching all the squirrels running around the corn field with one all black one chasing a bunch of the grays around. Not a gobble or turkey noise to be heard. At 9 I decided I had drank to many mountain dews and it was time for a bathroom break. So I dig a slight depression under the side of the blind so I don't need to get out of it. With that task completed I looked over to my turkey vest and decided to pull out the box call and hit it hard and see what happens,to my surprise a tom hammers a triple gobble about a 100 yards away on the ridge top.

I guessed he was strutting on that sunny ridge and hened up so I wait a few minutes and switch to the slate and mouth call giving him some soft purrs and clucks trying to sound like a group of hens picking through the corn,no response from him. I wanted to call the hens he was probably with. From past mistakes I have learned that aggressive calling can sometimes make the hens head the other way. I gave him about about 10 minutes and hammered the box call again and he cut me right off this time he sounded farther away. Then it dawned on me their is a 4 wheeler trail on the ridge top and he was probably strutting back and forth on it so I shut up and left him wanting more. At 9:25 he gobbles on his own and he is close just over the hillside in the woods so I give him some purrs on the slate and a series of yelps on the mouth call as I'm turning to face him in the blind. At 9:27 I can here something running in the leaves and I grab the Win SX2 and slid it out the window and get behind the gun just as that big white head pops through a brush pile and out into the field at at dead run only 20 yards. Once he's in the field he slows down and I can see the beard,he closes to 18 yards and is ready to strut so I give him 2 big yelps and as he stretches his neck out and looks directly at the blind I send a 3-1/2" Federal fight control load filled with 2 ounces of copper plated 6's right between his eye's. Game over he didn't even wiggle.

[IlliniWalli]

big congrats danO and jack.

thats great, even though its points for the bad guys

[Borch]

Way to go Jack!

Looks like you have a great guided and know how to close the deal.

[Borch]

Archerysniper,

I bet that spot looks a little different today. Better bring a snowblower or shovel.

Way to stick with the plan and figure out what they want.

[123fish]

Way to go Jack! You and archerysniper are taking the pressure off of the rest of the Gobble Kings. The bar is being set pretty high thanks to you guys. Go Gobble Kings!

[mws4dux]

Great pics and stories guys.....Congrats

[hugonian1]

That's a great looking fan on that Tom, Archerysniper.

Now we need Featherslayer to make it an A season trifecta for the Gobble Kings. With a name like that we can't go wrong.

I think Jack is going to need a name like that.

[Archerysniper]

Yeah where is featherslayer? He's been quiet since season started,I hope the weather isn't kicking his butt and the the gobblers are cooperating.