Post by hoosierhunter2 on Apr 24, 2009 17:47:35 GMT -5
I thought I would share some more pics and stories from our hunts up north on Wed. and Thurs. with Kevin Smith and River City Outfitters. 
Wednesday: Of course you saw on the thread "Opening day success" that Kyle was able to harvest a great bird on video during our opening morning setup. We decided to come back to this same field for the evening hunt and hopefully catch them feeding in the field and going back to the roost. We left our blind in the field and put all of the decoys into it and left to eat lunch and take a quick nap, then head back out for the evening and setup our decoys again and hunt. Kyle came along for the hunt as well, even though he was already tagged out. We were also joined by a "newbie" to turkey hunting!!! ;D Tanner, Kyle's 3 year old boy came along to sit in the blind as well, and he was awesome sitting still and learning to hunt!! We weren't fortunate enough to have any birds come back through for the evening, and actually we found out they all went across the road to the field over there and roosted (they must have crossed over the road while we were at lunch!! ;D ). Also.... Man was it windy Wednesday evening!!!! 
Capt. Kevin Smith posing in the blind! ;D
Ole B-mobile trying to get it done again, and riding out the wind!
Our "newbie" Tanner! ;D
Kyle and son Tanner
Our birds heading to roost on the WRONG property!! ;D
Capt. Kevin driving me back to my truck, and some deer we almost hit crossing the road!! ;D
Thursday: The plan was to go out with Kevin to another farm (actually the farm where Paul killed his bird on video last year), and try and video Kevin killing his bird, but Kevin called me at 4am to tell me he was feeling very ill and had been upheaving since 2am!
So with nothing else to do, I decided to tag along with Dan Rowe and Mike Vogler and video their hunt on Mike's property for the morning. Dan and Mike and heard and seen lots of gobblers the day before, but weren't able to access where the birds were wanting to be that day! So the plan was to move the blind up as close to the action as possible on the property and setup the B-mobile decoy and mutliple hens and hope that we could upset a tom enough to come over and strut into our decoys! Sure enough we had a large flock come out and we tried to break off a gobbler, and we FINALLY had one on a string coming!! He worked in fairly quickly, and at one point we had him about 30 yard from the decoys, but too woody to shoot at him. He gobbled and strutted, and when he came over the little ridge and saw our decoys, then he angled away and eventually was dead center about 55-60 yds. out and would not display or come in.... Sadly ole' B-mobile scared this great 2 yr. old bird and cost us a bird on this hunt! 
He was a great bird with about a 9-10" beard, but he obviously had his butt whooped too many times and wasn't interested! ;D So it was soooo close, but yet so far away!! ;D Great hunt none the less, and my heart was pounding as I thought it was a done deal there for a moment! This would have been Dan's first turkey ever, and he was anxious as well! That was the last hunt of our little trip, and fortunately we got the 1 bird down on video, and got lots of great B-roll and story!! Thanks again to Kevin Smith and also a big thank you to Mike Vogler!!
Our guide for Thursday... Mike Vogler
A "sad" hunter.... Dan Rowe! ;D
The view of our decoys from the blind, and the small window of opportunity that we had to shoot a bird! ;D
Dan packing up the spread
Wednesday: Of course you saw on the thread "Opening day success" that Kyle was able to harvest a great bird on video during our opening morning setup.
We decided to come back to this same field for the evening hunt and hopefully catch them feeding in the field and going back to the roost. We left our blind in the field and put all of the decoys into it and left to eat lunch and take a quick nap, then head back out for the evening and setup our decoys again and hunt. Kyle came along for the hunt as well, even though he was already tagged out. We were also joined by a "newbie" to turkey hunting!!! ;D Tanner, Kyle's 3 year old boy came along to sit in the blind as well, and he was awesome sitting still and learning to hunt!! We weren't fortunate enough to have any birds come back through for the evening, and actually we found out they all went across the road to the field over there and roosted (they must have crossed over the road while we were at lunch!! ;D ). Also.... Man was it windy Wednesday evening!!!! 
Capt. Kevin Smith posing in the blind! ;D
Ole B-mobile trying to get it done again, and riding out the wind!
Our "newbie" Tanner! ;D
Kyle and son Tanner
Our birds heading to roost on the WRONG property!! ;D
Capt. Kevin driving me back to my truck, and some deer we almost hit crossing the road!! ;D
Thursday: The plan was to go out with Kevin to another farm (actually the farm where Paul killed his bird on video last year), and try and video Kevin killing his bird, but Kevin called me at 4am to tell me he was feeling very ill and had been upheaving since 2am!
So with nothing else to do, I decided to tag along with Dan Rowe and Mike Vogler and video their hunt on Mike's property for the morning. Dan and Mike and heard and seen lots of gobblers the day before, but weren't able to access where the birds were wanting to be that day! So the plan was to move the blind up as close to the action as possible on the property and setup the B-mobile decoy and mutliple hens and hope that we could upset a tom enough to come over and strut into our decoys! Sure enough we had a large flock come out and we tried to break off a gobbler, and we FINALLY had one on a string coming!! He worked in fairly quickly, and at one point we had him about 30 yard from the decoys, but too woody to shoot at him. He gobbled and strutted, and when he came over the little ridge and saw our decoys, then he angled away and eventually was dead center about 55-60 yds. out and would not display or come in.... Sadly ole' B-mobile scared this great 2 yr. old bird and cost us a bird on this hunt! 
He was a great bird with about a 9-10" beard, but he obviously had his butt whooped too many times and wasn't interested! ;D So it was soooo close, but yet so far away!! ;D Great hunt none the less, and my heart was pounding as I thought it was a done deal there for a moment! This would have been Dan's first turkey ever, and he was anxious as well! That was the last hunt of our little trip, and fortunately we got the 1 bird down on video, and got lots of great B-roll and story!! Thanks again to Kevin Smith and also a big thank you to Mike Vogler!! Our guide for Thursday... Mike Vogler
A "sad" hunter.... Dan Rowe! ;D
The view of our decoys from the blind, and the small window of opportunity that we had to shoot a bird! ;D
Dan packing up the spread
