Team 3 "Grave Diggers"
05-02-2007 | 09:18 PM
#293
Joined: Jan 2007
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From: Harrisville, New York
RE: Team 3 "Grave Diggers"
my grampa tooka huge tom today, too bad he isnt on the team. it wieghed 23# had 1 1/4 spurs and sorted a 12 3/4" beard. it was that big one i have been talkign about but never got a shot at. he used my B-Mobile and the tom spurred it hard. then he dropped him a 15 yards. i wish i coulda got a crack at him. i am headed back out tommorow to get the other bird i saw. i figure he is in between mine and gramp's birds. he will score nicely if i get him.
05-03-2007 | 06:07 AM
#294
Typical Buck
Joined: Aug 2005
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From: Grand Haven, MI
RE: Team 3 "Grave Diggers"
my god that is a long beard! Good luck on gettin the other one. My Grandpa got a jake a week ago. he hasn't shot one in a while so i was callin for him and he made the choice to shot. o well..it was a great experience.
I'm settin up my blind this weekend at the cabin. I saw a nice 10-11" sunday before i was about to leave but didn't have any film left in the camera. this weekend i'll have a new tape so it will be good. There this small jake that keeps coming around too. he's only got a 2-3 in beard tho. Can't wait to get the Vectrix out and get a big tom on film. I might bring to girlfriend along too..i think she'd like that. Hope she's nottin like Quicksilver's kid he brought out!
Have a good one guys!
I'm settin up my blind this weekend at the cabin. I saw a nice 10-11" sunday before i was about to leave but didn't have any film left in the camera. this weekend i'll have a new tape so it will be good. There this small jake that keeps coming around too. he's only got a 2-3 in beard tho. Can't wait to get the Vectrix out and get a big tom on film. I might bring to girlfriend along too..i think she'd like that. Hope she's nottin like Quicksilver's kid he brought out!
ORIGINAL: quiksilver
Yak Yak Yak Yak Yak... Do you like this band? Do you like that band? What's your favorite song? Where'd you get this? Where'd you get that? Can I see your cell phone? Do you have any pictures on it? Do you think we'll see any turkeys? Can I shoot at a tweety bird if we don't get a turkey? Why did you give me a 20 gauge? Can I shoot the 12 gauge? There's a kid at my school whose dad got a turkey that weighed fifty pounds. How many pounds was your biggest turkey? I got detention at school for sending text messages. Do you sent a lot of text messages? blah blah blah blah blah.
Yak Yak Yak Yak Yak... Do you like this band? Do you like that band? What's your favorite song? Where'd you get this? Where'd you get that? Can I see your cell phone? Do you have any pictures on it? Do you think we'll see any turkeys? Can I shoot at a tweety bird if we don't get a turkey? Why did you give me a 20 gauge? Can I shoot the 12 gauge? There's a kid at my school whose dad got a turkey that weighed fifty pounds. How many pounds was your biggest turkey? I got detention at school for sending text messages. Do you sent a lot of text messages? blah blah blah blah blah.
05-03-2007 | 06:28 AM
#295
Giant Nontypical
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From: Western Massachusetts
RE: Team 3 "Grave Diggers"
Went out this AM... Had 2 gobbling on the roost... Was set up about 100 yards away... of course they came off the roost and went on the other side of the river where I can't hunt. I didn't have much time to go today... So I pulled out early. Too bad they didn't come off the roost towards my side... Oh well... Maybe tomorrow.
05-03-2007 | 08:02 AM
#296
Giant Nontypical
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RE: Team 3 "Grave Diggers"
We're on the board again guys. Had an awesome hunt this morning, and smoked a really nice tom.
20 pounds (bathroom scale)
11" beard
1.125 & 1.3125" spurs
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66.375 Points
I have some pics on my cell phone, andsent them to my email, but for some reason, my cpu here at work won't recognize the file format. If anyone wants to PM me their email addy, I can send the 3 picture files over, and you can try it out.
Anyway - got there at daybreak, hooted a little off of the east slope of the ridge. Silence.
I hoofed it all the way to the other end of the farm to the next hollow when I heard one shock gobble at a crow. He sounded like he was on the ground, maybe a couple hundred yards off. I only had one deke with me, so I put it out (a jake), and clambered down against a small sassafras tree on the field edge. There's only one field corner nearby, so from past experience, I knew that I was in the right spot.
After hitting a few clucks on the aluminator, it was clear that he was interested, so I shut up for a while and tuned my call. Gave a few purrs on the mouthcall. He started firing, gobbled nonstop, closing the distance 300-200-100, but circling my position. He was flanked out to my hard left, when he finally popped up from behind a little natural gas well at the field's edge. Yeah baby, this is game over. He sees the decoy. This is the Mariano Rivera of jake decoys. He is the closer. No turkey sees Mariano and walks away. I saw the tom crane his neck up and give old Mariano a good, long, hard stare.
Just then, a second bird starts hammering down over the bank behind me, no idea where he came from. This complicates things, b/c he'll have me silhouetted if he gets within 10-20 yards. He's within 50 already.
The one in the field - he's played this game before - he saw that deke and was not fooled. Had Rivera met his match? Was this the David Ortiz of turkeys? Now I'm stuck. He held fast at 40 yards, gobbling his brains out, strutting back and forth, but would not move another inch, mocking me. I could tell by his body language that he was really hoping to see a hen, a little nervous, but he was being persistent. It's a total standoff. He's cautiously eyeballing my decoy and gobbling his guts out. Refuses to budge. He was in range, but my pattern was going to come dangerously close to that gas well.
Meanwhile, Bird #2 had closed the distance to 20 yards, and I could see him out of the corner of my eye, coming up the bank behind me. Pfffffffffftvvvvvvvvvv. The bird in the field was the most vocal, and he was not budging at all. Finally, he took a few steps to the north, away from the well, easily clear for the shot.
So, I had a choice to make - I knew the bird in the field was nice, and a little bit cagey. I figured he was at least a 3 year old. The one over the bank, my gut said two-year old. So, instead of swinging the gun and taking the chipshot on the close bird, I rolled the dice and opted to take a poke at the big boy. It wasn't gonna be long before Bird #2 was standing on my head, and it was gonna be game over. There was no cover - nowhere to hide - and totally pinned down.
Well, I dialed him in at 40 yards and turned one loose. He went down like Barbaro.
Really nice bird, really fun hunt, and now I'm sure there's at least one more out there who will probably make it out of the season. That was my first 11" beard in a long time. Truthfully, he's a 10.5 incher, but he does have a few strands that stretch all the way to the 11" mark.
I really can't figure out how he has such a long beard - he's not a real heavyweight, so my guess is that his beard was plugged a little bit higher than normal, and his legs looked to be on the long side. Something helped give him that extra inch. Really gorgeous coloration on him though.
20 pounds (bathroom scale)
11" beard
1.125 & 1.3125" spurs
___________________
66.375 Points
I have some pics on my cell phone, andsent them to my email, but for some reason, my cpu here at work won't recognize the file format. If anyone wants to PM me their email addy, I can send the 3 picture files over, and you can try it out.
Anyway - got there at daybreak, hooted a little off of the east slope of the ridge. Silence.
I hoofed it all the way to the other end of the farm to the next hollow when I heard one shock gobble at a crow. He sounded like he was on the ground, maybe a couple hundred yards off. I only had one deke with me, so I put it out (a jake), and clambered down against a small sassafras tree on the field edge. There's only one field corner nearby, so from past experience, I knew that I was in the right spot.
After hitting a few clucks on the aluminator, it was clear that he was interested, so I shut up for a while and tuned my call. Gave a few purrs on the mouthcall. He started firing, gobbled nonstop, closing the distance 300-200-100, but circling my position. He was flanked out to my hard left, when he finally popped up from behind a little natural gas well at the field's edge. Yeah baby, this is game over. He sees the decoy. This is the Mariano Rivera of jake decoys. He is the closer. No turkey sees Mariano and walks away. I saw the tom crane his neck up and give old Mariano a good, long, hard stare.
Just then, a second bird starts hammering down over the bank behind me, no idea where he came from. This complicates things, b/c he'll have me silhouetted if he gets within 10-20 yards. He's within 50 already.
The one in the field - he's played this game before - he saw that deke and was not fooled. Had Rivera met his match? Was this the David Ortiz of turkeys? Now I'm stuck. He held fast at 40 yards, gobbling his brains out, strutting back and forth, but would not move another inch, mocking me. I could tell by his body language that he was really hoping to see a hen, a little nervous, but he was being persistent. It's a total standoff. He's cautiously eyeballing my decoy and gobbling his guts out. Refuses to budge. He was in range, but my pattern was going to come dangerously close to that gas well.
Meanwhile, Bird #2 had closed the distance to 20 yards, and I could see him out of the corner of my eye, coming up the bank behind me. Pfffffffffftvvvvvvvvvv. The bird in the field was the most vocal, and he was not budging at all. Finally, he took a few steps to the north, away from the well, easily clear for the shot.
So, I had a choice to make - I knew the bird in the field was nice, and a little bit cagey. I figured he was at least a 3 year old. The one over the bank, my gut said two-year old. So, instead of swinging the gun and taking the chipshot on the close bird, I rolled the dice and opted to take a poke at the big boy. It wasn't gonna be long before Bird #2 was standing on my head, and it was gonna be game over. There was no cover - nowhere to hide - and totally pinned down.
Well, I dialed him in at 40 yards and turned one loose. He went down like Barbaro.
Really nice bird, really fun hunt, and now I'm sure there's at least one more out there who will probably make it out of the season. That was my first 11" beard in a long time. Truthfully, he's a 10.5 incher, but he does have a few strands that stretch all the way to the 11" mark.
I really can't figure out how he has such a long beard - he's not a real heavyweight, so my guess is that his beard was plugged a little bit higher than normal, and his legs looked to be on the long side. Something helped give him that extra inch. Really gorgeous coloration on him though.
05-03-2007 | 09:35 AM
#299
Giant Nontypical
Joined: Jan 2004
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From: Western Massachusetts
RE: Team 3 "Grave Diggers"
Quicksilver's Bird:
It's a nice one!
http://i11.tinypic.com/4utokrm.jpg
http://i17.tinypic.com/62f4nwi.jpg
http://i16.tinypic.com/6bk7rpc.jpg
It's a nice one!
http://i11.tinypic.com/4utokrm.jpg
http://i17.tinypic.com/62f4nwi.jpg
http://i16.tinypic.com/6bk7rpc.jpg
05-03-2007 | 09:50 AM
#300
Giant Nontypical
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RE: Team 3 "Grave Diggers"
He was actually flopping in that second picture. I held him down until I thought he was out of gas, and jerked out my phone to pix msg my buddy, and as I was snapping the photo, he started flopping again.
Not sure what's up with that picture on the spurs. Must have taken it at a weird angle or something, b/c he had one 1-1/8 and one 1-5/16. The long one is the one that's kinda angled away from the camera, and really doesn't show it that well. I just kinda snapped it while I was lugging him out - never really paid much attention to taking a nice picture.
Thx for getting those up for me, WMH. This cpu was acting like it didn't recognize the file type.
In other news, I got an email from stickerguy.com - they're on their way to me right now - ETA Saturday. I'll get em back out to Greg asap.
Ryan - if I didn't score a bird by this Saturday, I was gonna have you send me that lucky boonie hat.
Not sure what's up with that picture on the spurs. Must have taken it at a weird angle or something, b/c he had one 1-1/8 and one 1-5/16. The long one is the one that's kinda angled away from the camera, and really doesn't show it that well. I just kinda snapped it while I was lugging him out - never really paid much attention to taking a nice picture.
Thx for getting those up for me, WMH. This cpu was acting like it didn't recognize the file type.
In other news, I got an email from stickerguy.com - they're on their way to me right now - ETA Saturday. I'll get em back out to Greg asap.
Ryan - if I didn't score a bird by this Saturday, I was gonna have you send me that lucky boonie hat.