Post by gobblerstopper on May 6, 2010 15:08:18 GMT -5
My buddy flew up here from Florida again this year and we headed to Nebraska several days later. We arrived at a WMA about daylight on Saturday morning. There was nobody there, so we made a few calls and looked over a couple of the productive areas from last year. Nothing going on, so about 9:00 we headed to the ranch that we hunt, talked to the manager, drove around looking at birds and headed back to the hotel for some rest before trying an evening hunt.
We headed back out about 5:00. I got on a bird right off the bat and took him. My buddy was hunting a couple of miles down the road, so I waited to drive down there to pick him up. When I got there, he was coming down the road with his first gobbler also.....
We were in a hurry after I picked him up and didn't take any pictures of our birds on the ranch. We saw this stump on the side of the road and thought it would be a nice place to get some pictures. The landowner drove by and thought we shot the birds out of one of his 10 trees, so when we got back to the hotel and CO followed us and we spent the next 1 1/2 trying to convince him where we shot the birds. We missed our Rosebud all you can eat prime rib that night
The second day was pretty good too. Still windy with gust up to 30mph, but I managed to get this bird to come in with a hen about an hour after daylight. I picked my buddy up and we headed over to where he heard a bunch of gobblers at daylight. I called two birds 350 yards across a field and right into his lap. He shot the bigger of the two....
Day three actually started with us set up in a spot that we had watched 5 gobblers the day before after we were done. We had them coming in, but another bird made a long trek to beat them to the decoys. My buddy shot it and we got it on video. We headed up to the prairie and was trying to get a gobbler to respond when I drove up on a flock of birds that included three longbeards. Seeing that two of them did not follow the other and the hens, I backed up and parked the truck. We were headed in the direction of where the birds went in when I got a different gobbler to answer my calls. He strolled right in to 22 steps and we were headed back to Indiana....
We headed back out about 5:00. I got on a bird right off the bat and took him. My buddy was hunting a couple of miles down the road, so I waited to drive down there to pick him up. When I got there, he was coming down the road with his first gobbler also.....
We were in a hurry after I picked him up and didn't take any pictures of our birds on the ranch. We saw this stump on the side of the road and thought it would be a nice place to get some pictures. The landowner drove by and thought we shot the birds out of one of his 10 trees, so when we got back to the hotel and CO followed us and we spent the next 1 1/2 trying to convince him where we shot the birds. We missed our Rosebud all you can eat prime rib that night
The second day was pretty good too. Still windy with gust up to 30mph, but I managed to get this bird to come in with a hen about an hour after daylight. I picked my buddy up and we headed over to where he heard a bunch of gobblers at daylight. I called two birds 350 yards across a field and right into his lap. He shot the bigger of the two....
Day three actually started with us set up in a spot that we had watched 5 gobblers the day before after we were done. We had them coming in, but another bird made a long trek to beat them to the decoys. My buddy shot it and we got it on video. We headed up to the prairie and was trying to get a gobbler to respond when I drove up on a flock of birds that included three longbeards. Seeing that two of them did not follow the other and the hens, I backed up and parked the truck. We were headed in the direction of where the birds went in when I got a different gobbler to answer my calls. He strolled right in to 22 steps and we were headed back to Indiana....
