Post by mullis56 on May 3, 2008 21:01:22 GMT -5
I killed on film today, finally!
A good friend of mine and I scouted Friday night and watched where the birds that are seen everyday in the field we were going to be hunting were going Satruday morning. We watched a 2 toms and a jake work themselves out of view at 8:45pm, and figured tiahat they'd be roosted close enough to there and we went to town to eat and go to bed. Next morning, after a stromy Friday night we were missing one of the party who was supposed to be hunting with us. He finally contacted via cell phone at 6:10am, at the point in time we already had 3 birds gobbling on the roost. By the time he got close after driving to where we were we had heard at least 5 birds on the roost. It was so foggy and no birds were in the field we decided to risk having him who had the camera go ahead and come to our set up. This wouldn't have happened if it were so foggy! We wouldn't have risked it if it weren't foggy. So we get set up and, finally about 7:45am we could see 2 strutters working our way and gobbling a little but we didn't know if it was going to happen. We finally called one of the birds to 70 yards or so and he hung up not strutting for 35 minutes!! It was really long stand off......finally my buddy and I convinced another buddy to belly craw 50 yards or so behind us to make it sound like hen(s) had moved away, and that is all it took. The bird broke and came right in. I was needing to move as a I was in total lockdown in our Mexican stand off as I couldn't move! Therefore when I had an available shot I took it at 46 yards. My video man about died as he didn't give me go ahead to shoot, but it was on video and is funny with the 3 of us and with automatic red (my buddy) all muddy from belly crawling to get the deal done. Here are pics of the bird 3 red necks hunting and oh after this was done I found a few shrooms with dad and added them the many lbs he found since he killed his bird!
Here is just me:
Here is me and automatic red:
Here is automatic, me and capt Bell:
Here is dad, my little one Corbin and me:
Shrooms we found yesterday:
The others dad got:
A good friend of mine and I scouted Friday night and watched where the birds that are seen everyday in the field we were going to be hunting were going Satruday morning. We watched a 2 toms and a jake work themselves out of view at 8:45pm, and figured tiahat they'd be roosted close enough to there and we went to town to eat and go to bed. Next morning, after a stromy Friday night we were missing one of the party who was supposed to be hunting with us. He finally contacted via cell phone at 6:10am, at the point in time we already had 3 birds gobbling on the roost. By the time he got close after driving to where we were we had heard at least 5 birds on the roost. It was so foggy and no birds were in the field we decided to risk having him who had the camera go ahead and come to our set up. This wouldn't have happened if it were so foggy! We wouldn't have risked it if it weren't foggy. So we get set up and, finally about 7:45am we could see 2 strutters working our way and gobbling a little but we didn't know if it was going to happen. We finally called one of the birds to 70 yards or so and he hung up not strutting for 35 minutes!! It was really long stand off......finally my buddy and I convinced another buddy to belly craw 50 yards or so behind us to make it sound like hen(s) had moved away, and that is all it took. The bird broke and came right in. I was needing to move as a I was in total lockdown in our Mexican stand off as I couldn't move! Therefore when I had an available shot I took it at 46 yards. My video man about died as he didn't give me go ahead to shoot, but it was on video and is funny with the 3 of us and with automatic red (my buddy) all muddy from belly crawling to get the deal done. Here are pics of the bird 3 red necks hunting and oh after this was done I found a few shrooms with dad and added them the many lbs he found since he killed his bird!
Here is just me:
Here is me and automatic red:
Here is automatic, me and capt Bell:
Here is dad, my little one Corbin and me:
Shrooms we found yesterday:
The others dad got:
