Team 2 ~ Longbeard Legion Winner All Birds
04-14-2013, 09:22 AM
#134
Typical Buck
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wye Mountain, Arkansas
Posts: 865
Went out to the same spot I was at Friday morning and did not hear a single bird. Friday they were hammering at every nose in the woods. This morning was overcast and not as cold. Youth season started Saturday hopefully all the birds didn't get shot by youth hunters
04-14-2013, 06:09 PM
#135
Spike
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Platteville, Wisconsin
Posts: 78
well boys i hammered one this evening at 6:36. 22 lbs 6 oz. 3/4inch spurs and a 9 inch beard. weather conditions were brutal this season and they toms just weren't gobbling. i'm pretty happy with this bird, i hunted my butt off for him. now do i post the score and picture or does the captain? he scored 55.375. i can't get the picture to upload. would someone be willing to resize it for me because i have no clue how to do it.
04-14-2013, 11:55 PM
#136
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: uniontown, kentucky
Posts: 570
BB outdoors congrants on the bird. Today was wild for my son and I as we called one off roost. This bird flew down in a small field about 200 yards from us and then started sturting in the cut out though the woods where the tractor goes. This bird seen our decoys and would not come in. After about 30 min. of playing with this bird I tried to stalk him. I was around 30 to 35 yards from him and almost ready to come to full draw when he spotted me, game over but lots of fun.
04-15-2013, 05:40 AM
#137
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location:
Posts: 1,927
Sorry for not posting back RVT. I went out to roost some birds Friday night and didn't hear a single one. The wind was picking up but skies were clear. When I got back to the house I got my gear ready for the morning but couldn't find my license. A frantic search ensued with me checking everywhere. I finally found it where I normally place it at the end of the season but something had covered it up. My National Forest stamp was expired, that day, and I had to go online to buy another. After all that it was well past time for me to be in bed.
Next morning I got to the road I wanted and some joker had closed the gate (national forest gate). I opened it up and went on up. Without a gobble the night before I was torn between two spots ( a creek and a bench) so I got set up between them where I could hear both and pull them to me. Wind was steady now and making it hard to hear, not to mention a little chilly. Didn't hear anything for the first part of the morning but heard a gobble around 8 AM coming from the direction of the creek. He didn't respond to my calls and sounding like he was moving up the creek. I was trying to decide on moving on him since past experience told me where he was going. Two other hunters walking up to the bench a few minutes later made the decision easier. I walked around the mountain to where the creek goes into a steep hollow. Before entering the hollow I called to try and pinpoint the gobbler. Last year, in almost the exact same scenario, I had got impatient in the last 100 yards and walked right up on them. A gobbler cut off my call. Unfortunately, instead of being up ahead of me in the hollow he was straight below me about a hundred yards away on the creek. I was backlit by the sun and as I tried to setup he spotted me and I saw 3 gobblers heading for dodge on the other mountain. Nothing else was seen or heard that day.
I had to come in to work this morning and will leave at lunch. It's raining and my buddy is out hunting in it. Rain possible in the AM tomorrow and nicer on Wed, 80 degrees. We can only hunt until Noon until May. Will be offline for the next 3 days. Hope to connect as the birds on the farm we are going to are unpressured and dumb.
Next morning I got to the road I wanted and some joker had closed the gate (national forest gate). I opened it up and went on up. Without a gobble the night before I was torn between two spots ( a creek and a bench) so I got set up between them where I could hear both and pull them to me. Wind was steady now and making it hard to hear, not to mention a little chilly. Didn't hear anything for the first part of the morning but heard a gobble around 8 AM coming from the direction of the creek. He didn't respond to my calls and sounding like he was moving up the creek. I was trying to decide on moving on him since past experience told me where he was going. Two other hunters walking up to the bench a few minutes later made the decision easier. I walked around the mountain to where the creek goes into a steep hollow. Before entering the hollow I called to try and pinpoint the gobbler. Last year, in almost the exact same scenario, I had got impatient in the last 100 yards and walked right up on them. A gobbler cut off my call. Unfortunately, instead of being up ahead of me in the hollow he was straight below me about a hundred yards away on the creek. I was backlit by the sun and as I tried to setup he spotted me and I saw 3 gobblers heading for dodge on the other mountain. Nothing else was seen or heard that day.
I had to come in to work this morning and will leave at lunch. It's raining and my buddy is out hunting in it. Rain possible in the AM tomorrow and nicer on Wed, 80 degrees. We can only hunt until Noon until May. Will be offline for the next 3 days. Hope to connect as the birds on the farm we are going to are unpressured and dumb.
04-15-2013, 05:04 PM
#139
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: North Louisiana
Posts: 3,050
well boys i hammered one this evening at 6:36. 22 lbs 6 oz. 3/4inch spurs and a 9 inch beard. weather conditions were brutal this season and they toms just weren't gobbling. i'm pretty happy with this bird, i hunted my butt off for him. now do i post the score and picture or does the captain? he scored 55.375. i can't get the picture to upload. would someone be willing to resize it for me because i have no clue how to do it.