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Post by swat1018 on Mar 17, 2008 21:03:34 GMT -5
Killed my first Osceola this morning on only my second time in the field after them. I'm not use to hunting public land so that makes this bird even more special. Hunted Sunday morning, birds got scared by another hunter walking by. Today, same story, people walking everywhere. Started to leave, but figured I'd make a circle through the area more as a scouting mission than hunting. Was following the property line back toward the truck when I came across a freshly planted pasture field. I started to glass the field when 2 birds shock gobbled at a cow bellaring. I had to lay down where I was, could see the birds about 125 yards away in the open field. Clucked and purred on my mouth call and they both goblbed and went into full strut. Let them strut 3-4 minutes then clucked again. This time after they both gobbled they both ran wide open straight to me. At about 20 feet I cut on my mouth call to stop them and shot. 2 year old, 18#, 9" beard, 1" spur. Can't wait to go tomorrow and try for #2.
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Post by woodmaster on Mar 17, 2008 21:20:08 GMT -5
Congrats!
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Post by oggie on Mar 17, 2008 21:49:19 GMT -5
Awesome!! Got any pics to post.
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Post by hornharvester on Mar 17, 2008 22:28:15 GMT -5
Congratulations on your bird! h.h.
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Post by quackingtim on Mar 18, 2008 2:36:15 GMT -5
Way to go.
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Post by hunter7x on Mar 18, 2008 7:17:38 GMT -5
Nice ! Don't we have a man law about posting pictures with a story ?!
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Post by huxbux on Mar 18, 2008 7:50:57 GMT -5
Congrats
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Post by buster on Mar 18, 2008 8:15:46 GMT -5
AWESOME and congrats on your first Osceola!!! I know you are on Cloud 9. Florida is an interesting place to turkey hunt...kinda eerie with all those strange sounds in the swamp in the morning twilight, never know what you're gonna see or hear. I can't wait to get back down there for #2. Enjoy your trip!!!! Lets see those pics so we know your not fibbing to us!!
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Post by swat1018 on Mar 18, 2008 13:54:04 GMT -5
Well Guys, it's all over. Bird #2 went down with a load of Nitros in it's head at about 0930 this morning. Public ground, again. Tom had 4 hens with him, almost didn't work out. Hens came running into my decoys way ahead of him. They checked out my decoys a little good and decided they wanted out of there. They started to skirt around me and he started to follow. A lot of purring and clucking on the mouth call and I got the hens back, but 180 degrees behind me. I finally got turned around with 5 sets of eyeballs in the area and made the shot. It was a little longer than I care to take, but it was now or never, if you know what I mean. Bird went straight down. 8.5 inch beard, 1" spurs, 18#. I've got the pics, but have never tried to post any. I could email them if someone wants to mess with it. Buster, I'm not fibbing, you know me from your district 4 days. (48-8) Just spoke to 414 after I dropped it, now he wishes he came!
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Post by fftce67 on Mar 18, 2008 20:55:44 GMT -5
congrats on both of your birds....just hope the rain stops soon here
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Post by oggie on Mar 18, 2008 22:00:19 GMT -5
I've got to get down there someday.
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Post by mullis56 on Mar 18, 2008 23:22:20 GMT -5
Congrats, they do gobble a little different and it is well just different hunting then here but it is all fun and congrats again!
I just got home from there and I killed 2 birds down there Monday with my buddy Dan and we got a double all on film and tons of good video footage of the kll and other birds, etc. I killed my 2nd bird today and he was a whopper of an osceola!
I hunted public and private last year, will not hunt publc ground down there again, too risky and no fun for me personally. I hunted the Pennington Ranches which is over 7000 acres of pasture, orange groves and hammocks (as they call them, we would call them fingers of woods or thickets).
Congrats again!
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Post by hornharvester on Mar 19, 2008 9:16:07 GMT -5
congratulations on your bird. h.h.
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Post by jackc99 on Mar 19, 2008 17:49:56 GMT -5
Where can I get one of those cow bellaring calls?
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