Not much to this story really..... I heard two birds on the limb gobble one time. Made one series of yelps and 10 minutes later he dead! They strutted up the hill right to the gun barrel spitting and drumming. Awesome hunt to start the year off. 18#, 1" sharp spurs, and a 9.5" beard. Going after his buddy in the rain in the morning I believe.

Awesome! Congrats on the kill Yekrut! My dad went with me this morning, we didn't hear 1 gobble but had a couple hens talk to us for a little while. I just wished we could have put a gobbler on the ground but i still enjoyed the hunt with my dad.

Congrats bud ! I didnt have one gobble all day I did get after them though called one in at 60 yards up a road but wouldnt commit let him walk off . Got one another late and belly crawled to 55 yards took a shot but completely missed . Great first day lookin forward to finishing the deal later.

Congrats bud ! I didnt have one gobble all day I did get after them though called one in at 60 yards up a road but wouldnt commit let him walk off . Got one another late and belly crawled to 55 yards took a shot but completely missed . Great first day lookin forward to finishing the deal later.

After not having much luck in the rain and storms yesterday I was excited for daylight today. It started raining at dark again last night after quitting about 2 yesterday evening and rained until sometime early this morning. Well wouldn't you know it would start raining again on the walk in the morning. With it being rainy and the wind blowing I didnt figure I would hear anything, but since I have the whole club to myself I figured I would do a lot of walking and checking fields and roads today. I head back to where I killed the bird Saturday and cut on a YEKRUT special and one hammered back almost from the same place they were roosted Saturday morning. I head to a place I think I can work him from and go to work on him. He gobbled good, maybe 50 times or so and slowly worked his way up to the top of the ridge and got to take a ride in YEKRUTS truck this morning. From roost to boot on head was about 30 minutes. I heard another bird gobbling from another area that I think I can get to in the morning so I will probably try him next. It has set back in raining now. The rest of the week is supposed to be really nice, but I am about tired of being wet and cold.

20# 4 oz
9.5" beard
1" spurs

Hear you Bro ! Chalk up another for the good guys .
I will try to get on the board this weekend .

Congrats again Yekrut! Maybe you'll get that one in the morning. I know how ya feel being wet and cold, I went this morning in the rain. I didn't hear a single bird but did watch a Jake feed around in the field for awhile.

Congrats yekrut on the birds! I'm trying.... i thought I was gonna be wacking and stacking this week but the birds seen to have disappeared .... Not even seeing tracks on my places right now .... I've chg my vacation to middle of April maybe I will connect then .

Boys he has done whacked #3 we need to get on the stick .

I went this morning. I got to my listening spot an I heard one gobble so I went towards him I walked about 200yds an set down. Then the woods came alive I heard 8 different Gobblers gobble around me from 6:25 till 8:30 and 1 Jake attempt to gobble as well. I had one sneak in behind me before I knew he was there till he Gobbled an I couldn't turn around because it was to late. He eased on off with a hen in the holler. Needless I didn't get one but it was a Great hunt. I'm gonna try again in the morning.

Lol, if I could kill y'all's 3 each I would. I plan on killing enough to do it but I make the rules and that ain't how they work. Lol. Good luck fellers.

Yekrut can you please teach me how to become a Turkey Killing machine just like you

It's all luck my friend, beginners luck at that.

Lol Yekrut I've seen you in to many dead gobbler pics to be beginners luck.
I went this morning heard 5 of the 8 gobblers i heard thursday. I had 2 of them getting closer i guess around 200yds. I have yet to figure out where they went. I'm trying my best to help the team out im just not having the best of luck right. Im gonna try it again in the morning. Good luck guys

Bless his heart he tried, but he failed. You play games you are gonna get dealt with around here. I'll post the story and some better pictures in a bit, gonna get him dressed and have a few cold ones to wind down first.


Alright time for a story.....

I went into a place this morning that I had found some gobbler tracks going into yesterday in hopes I would hear something. Well it was overcast again for a few hours this morning and I didn't hear a peep. I went back to the back of the property to get a guys trail cam for him. Its a pretty good haul up and down some ridges and I just walked a called every 200 yards or so all the way back trying to strike something up. I eased up to the field and I see a hens back and then another. I froze right there and was stuck standing there for the next 3 hours. About 2 hours into the ordeal the hens are feeding off out to a roadway and I think they are going to move on off so I am relieved. Well they left and I took a few steps forward and here they come back. About that same time I catch something moving about 200 yards through some select cut pines and it is a strutter on a hillside in the sun..... game on! I watch him while the hens feed again and he never does anything but spit and drum. This goes on for another hour or so. The gobbler would come up to the field, but never out in it or he would have been toast. The hens would get within 40-50 yards of me and pay me no attention just standing there in the wide open logging road. They finaly fed off and I got the dang camera and got out of there. It is around noon now so I haul tail back to the truck walking and calling again. I get a couple sandwiches at camp and off I go to another place close to camp. We have had several pics of gobblers off of this field this spring and it is out in a clear cut so I buried up in some brush and gave a yelp and a cutt and one fires back directly behind me. I turn around halfway so I can shoot both ways and get ready. 30 minutes or so goes by and I catch movement out of the side of my eye and it is a strutter, but not the one doing the gobbling because he aint budging from the draw he was in. The bird is already inside 40 yards. I didn't know it at the time because I couldn't see it, but he was walking a road where they had drug logs out. 15-20 minutes goes by and I work my way to my knees so I can get higher and get a shot at him the next time he struts to the left. Finally I give him some soft calls and he comes back into my lane and I dented the primer. I knew he had a big head and a large full fan, but I couldn't see much of a beard on him when I shot. He had beard rot and 80% of his beard was maybe 3" long and orange, he had about 10 strands that went 7 1/2". His spurs told the rest of the tale where he had some nice 1 1/8" spurs on both legs. It was a longs day, but at 3'ish I finally got it done. Looking for a couple more this week.

I hear ya son good lord willing I will be after them Saturday all day.

Congrats on #3 Yekrut!

Guys I'm sorry that I'm not a very good teammate. All my birds have shut up again. I think I'm under some kind of bad voodoo. I'm trying to kill my first ever. I've been trying for 8yrs now. I thought this was gonna be the year so far it's not looking to good but I'm gonna keep trying.

What you need is a corn pile

I'm sure the corn pile would do the trick but the man in Green wouldn't be a good thing to see at daylight

Naaa, I guess you are right. I can't afford a ticket.