wack em
Senior Member
We hunted together Saturday morning and had to leave a Strutter on a powerline at 9:30 because he had to be at a ball game
. We made plans to be in there early on Sunday morning and setup close on him. We arrived at the property around 5:15 and made a quick 45 minute walk to where we were standing the morning before when we spotted the strutter. We quickly realized that the river we were going to have to cross was too deep due to all the rains and we would have to settle for setting up on a hay field just across the river from the powerline the bird was strutting in. We get setup in the double bull with elvis out in front and wait another 45 for gobble time. The crows started up and nothing
, we waited 5 min and were about to gobble ourselves to break the silence and bring the woods to life when he fired off about 150 yards behind us across the river on the edge of the powerline. We were hoping that he would be on the edge of the field we were setup in but he wasn't so we decided we would have to make him mad to get him to cross the river. For the next 10 minutes every time he would gobble we would cut him off with a gobble, and each time he would cut us back off
, this went on and he got more fired up so we threw in a few tree calls, we quickly heard him fly down, onto the powerline, about the same time four hens flew down into the field we were in from across the field. We knew then that the hens had roosted away from him in the field we were in and we knew that we were in business. We gobble a few times and then we hear him fly across the river
and he lands about 150 yards out. He began strutting and working towards the hens. We gobble at him again and he sees the deks, he folded up the strut and began a slow but steady death walk from 150 yards out all the way to 10 yards. When he got to ten yards Jud came to full draw and smoked him
, he broke a hip and the bird hopped to 40 yards and stopped. When he did Jud shot him again putting him down for the count!
It was a textbook hunt and i got it on video!
He had 10 1/2" Beard
and 1 1/8 sharp pink spurs
If I can figure out how to post a video I will this weekend when I get home.
. We made plans to be in there early on Sunday morning and setup close on him. We arrived at the property around 5:15 and made a quick 45 minute walk to where we were standing the morning before when we spotted the strutter. We quickly realized that the river we were going to have to cross was too deep due to all the rains and we would have to settle for setting up on a hay field just across the river from the powerline the bird was strutting in. We get setup in the double bull with elvis out in front and wait another 45 for gobble time. The crows started up and nothing, we waited 5 min and were about to gobble ourselves to break the silence and bring the woods to life when he fired off about 150 yards behind us across the river on the edge of the powerline. We were hoping that he would be on the edge of the field we were setup in but he wasn't so we decided we would have to make him mad to get him to cross the river. For the next 10 minutes every time he would gobble we would cut him off with a gobble, and each time he would cut us back off and he lands about 150 yards out. He began strutting and working towards the hens. We gobble at him again and he sees the deks, he folded up the strut and began a slow but steady death walk from 150 yards out all the way to 10 yards. When he got to ten yards Jud came to full draw and smoked him, he broke a hip and the bird hopped to 40 yards and stopped. When he did Jud shot him again putting him down for the count!It was a textbook hunt and i got it on video!
He had 10 1/2" Beard
and 1 1/8 sharp pink spurs
If I can figure out how to post a video I will this weekend when I get home.
, if there are no turkeys were you are hunting then you can't kill turkeys. 
