2 for the price of 1...any one else ever have this happen?
It was two years ago, last weekend of the spring turkey season. I had 3 big gobblers staring at my decoy hangin up at about 100 yards. They wouldn"™t respond to nothing! Just stood there laughing at me and my decoy while I was getting eatin"™ alive by the darn mosquito"™s. I was set back in the woods about 10 yards and the decoy and the tom"™s were in the field. They slowly moved off across the hedgerow into the adjacent field. As soon as they disappeared I took off running along the joining woods and snuck my way through the perpendicular hedge row to the one the turkeys were headed through. I couldn"™t of timed it better. Just as they were breaking out into the 2"™ tall grass field I was popping through at the corner waiting for them. They were in a slight depression so I was able to crawl within 40 yards of them, as I popped up I seen two of them and picked one out quickly before they spotted me and BANG! The other one flew off and as I approach to collect my trophy what do I find but two dead 22lbs Tom"™s both with 10inch beards flopping on the ground. I was extatic! The other bird was lined up directly behind the other and I didn"™t even see him.
RE: 2 for the price of 1...any one else ever have this happen?
i've never had it happen(i haven't killed a turkey yet) but a guy i know took i think 3 in one shot. two were close then there was a 3rd on back in the woods that he didn't see.
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RE: 2 for the price of 1...any one else ever have this happen?
A couple of years ago, my brother in law and I were hunting together and had a trio of nice gobblers fly down off the roost and over our heads to a small valley on the other side of a hill we were sitting on. After trying to call them back over the hill, we got impatient and decided that we'd crest the hill ever so slowly to try and see where they'd gone. So, we got up and started up the hill. Just as we crested the hill, we both saw three heads pop up over the top on the other side. Running to the top of the hill, the three birds scattered. One hit the air to the left and the other two started running to the right. My brother in law popped off a shot at the one in the air to no avail. I had the running shot, so I picked the gobbler that was closest to me and popped off a round. Well, the other gobbler was running down the hill at an angle and lined up perfectly with my gobbler, just a mere 25 yards behind him. I ended up cutting both gobblers down with one shot, completely by accident.
The biggest surprise was yet to come though. One bird was 21 lbs, with a 9.5" beard and 1.5" spurs. The second bird was 22 lbs, with two beards (2.5" and 7.5") and 1.25" spurs. Two of the biggest birds I've ever killed.
RE: 2 for the price of 1...any one else ever have this happen?
I have actually had the same thing happen, but it was pure luck. Last year, I had a sweet setup with two decoys out and I was concealed behind a nice low blue oak. I had been calling for about three hours, and I knew the gobblers were around. I finally drew two gobblers in, and the first was certainly the more dominate one since it kept the other tom behind him at all times. I took a shot with my compound for the first one, and I had a pass through and stuck the other bird. The only problem was that the second Tom that was stuck with the pass through shot, took off about 150-200 yards down until it bled out. Took me awhile to track it, since there was blood splatter everywhere throughout the trail. But in all, I was one lucky man. To this day, never had that happen again, probably will never happen again, but at least it happened once. Although, in my daily ground squirrel hunts, I have taken double and triple kills with those guys. To everyone on here, whether you hunt, varmint, fish, or photograph wildlife, an early Merry Christmas to all, and all good luck in hunts next year.
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RE: 2 for the price of 1...any one else ever have this happen?
I guess it also depends on the regs where you hunt. Here in RI, there is a one bird limit. Maybe I'm the exception here, but I've waited until Toms separated so that I wouldn't nail two with one shot. I waited to make sure I didn't get the second bird at the risk of potentially losing them both.
RE: 2 for the price of 1...any one else ever have this happen?
Never happened nor would I want it to. In PA you get one tag, well it'll be two this next season however even with two tags I wouldn't want to end my hunt in one shot even if legal. I'd rather take one bird and hunt another day. It's not about the kill for me, it's all about the hunt.
If done by accident I suppose ya'll should be glad it was legal, 1st rule of shooting, Identify your target.
2 for the price of 1...any one else ever have this happen?
