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Turkey Hunting 2009

Started by Ron Scott, April 28, 2009, 07:33:23 PM

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Ron Scott

Was successful this morning at 8:15 am on the second day of my turkey hunt season.



~Ron

Norm

Way to go!

I keep hearing them but have yet to have any come in close enough for a shot.

SwampDonkey

Looks like a good Sunday dinner in waiting.   :) ;D
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1 Thessalonians 5:21

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thecfarm

Looks good.We have them right behind the house usually in the mornings.I'm in hopes to add a picture of the Step Son or the Grandson with their turkey.I think it's youth day this Sat.Than open to everyone next week.
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Weekend_Sawyer


Good going Ron!

We are heading up to the cabin tonight. We say we are going turkey hunting but we have 3,000 lob lollys to plant, I plan on having a dibble bar in one hand and shotgun in the other!

Jon
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iffy

My son's coworker in North Central Kansas got an 8 bearded one. Total length 44 inches.





Weekend_Sawyer

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semologger

Ive got 2. First one had a 9 and half inch beard. 3/4 inch spurs. The other one not as good. This is my first year trying to hunt them. Sorry no pitchures left my camera 4 hours north of the house the week before. :D

Ive never heard of a beard like that. Now thats something to brag about.

Ironmower

Nice birds, I got my second one this mornin' 10" beard  8)
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Ron Scott

Yes, the 8 beards must really be unusual. Mine had 3 beards , one 6", one 3 ", and one 2". I though that was unusual. 5/8" spurs. We had wild turkey for dinner tonight.
~Ron

iffy

The guy that got the 8 bearded one wasn't interested at all in the tropy potential. He was just gonna skin it and eat it. My son is a wildlife biologist as well as an avid hunter and he talked the guy into taking pictures and salvaging the beards.

Gary_C

How did that wild turkey taste, Ron?

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Ron Scott

Quite good! Still eating on it.
~Ron

Gary_C

I assume those wild turkeys taste a lot different than the raised ones.
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beenthere

Gary
I prefer the wild ones over the tame, for taste. But not a lot different from tame. There is no distinctive "wild" taste that I can decipher.

The legs are filled with more stringy 'bone'. But we cooked the legs/thighs in a slow cooker this time, and pulled the meat off the bones. Very good.

Eating the turkey breast now, and it is about all gone. It was baked in the oven.  Do have to watch for the #4 shot tho.  ;D ;D

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SwampDonkey

The turkeys my great grand mother raised looked just like those wild ones. Ones my uncle raised were white.

With all the farms around, they probably help themselves to a few grains. ;D
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1 Thessalonians 5:21

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iffy

When we do the wild game feed at our local American Legion we cut the breast into bite size chunks, marinate in buttermilk overnight, roll in seasoned flour and deep fry. Never have any of that left.

semologger

1 Egg

2 Flour (Salt and Pepper)

3 Skillet

4 Plate

5 All Gone.

6 Go Hunting Again.

;) :D

thecfarm

Hunter did it!!!!!!  This is his first year hunting.






This was shot on our land.Turkey was shot on youth day at 5:45. He had a 9½ beard,1 inch spurs, weighted about 20 lbs.




 


This is Father and Son bringing the prize home.
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Norm


fishpharmer

Nice birds Ron, Iffy and TheCfarm 8) 8)

Glad to see folks taking kids turkey hunting.  I ain't getting soft, killed my share here in MS.  But now I would rather hear them gobble and see em strut. 

Warning-what follows is a rather long winded story of a squirrel hunter.  My apologies Ron, seemed relavant to the thread.

When I was a kid, ten or twelve, I had a close, close friend, rather not mention any names, he was real tight with me.  We went squirrel hunting pretty regular.  Had  a twenty two rifle.  One day that friend was sitting on top of a hill next to a big oak tree.  It was on the edge of a deep hollow.  The kind of hollow you could see the other side but couldn't see over in front of you or down each end.  Probably two hundred yards across and a hundred yards deep.  Well it was mature hardwoods.  Since it was about the end of November there were freshly fallen dried leaves everywhere.  A fella could hear them squirrels coming  from a good ways off.  It was early  afternoon, mostly likely right after school.  This fella started hearing some serious ruffling of the leaves down in that hollow.  Probably wasn't the best strategy having a blind spot in front of him, since that ruffling was coming from down in the hollow.    This fella couldn't get closer with out making a racket that would surely scare the squirrels off.  So wait he did.  Lo and behold, the sound was getting louder as if the squirrel, or at this point it sounded like a  whole herd of squirrels was coming up the hollow in front of the fella.

He did have his open sighted twenty rifle cocked and pointed at the edge of the hollow directly in front of him, not more than twenty or so feet away. 

To the little fellas amazement, a whole flock of turkey heads appeared over the edge of the hollow. It was at least twenty birds, but if you asked him he woulda said it was a hundred.  They was dipping and bobbling, scratching for acorns and bugs. 

Now this little fella had never seen wild turkeys so close, so many at once.  It was just natural that the ole hunter instinct just swept over him in an overwhelming fashion.  Kinda like a crappie and a minnnow or a cat and a mouse.  You know what i mean. 

The danG things wouldn't set still.  So the fella used his squirrel hunting trick and made a little hawk whistle.  Suddenly twenty pairs of eyes was looking down the end of a twenty two rifle.

So them old iron sights was pointed at the head of the closest of them wild turkeys.  Squeeze...........cracked.   Woohoo, he got one.  He got one.  The first trophy of a long career of hunting.  He was some kind of proud.  Them shiny bronze feathers up close were even prettier than he imagined.  The half a mile back to the house seemed like a hop and skip.  His grandma and mama was home and they were happy too, after all thanksgiving was in a day or two.    Never thought about taking pictures, not sure if he even had a camera.  The cleaning went quick as it was about an eight or ten pound bird.  Plucked all the feathers and saved em in a plastic bag in the freezer.  Grandma was gonna cook it.

Well maybe that should have been the end of the story.  It wasn't.

Daddy came home and the fella ran to him with pride and told of his feat.  Daddy wanted to see the feathers.  So the fella showed him. 

It got bad after that moment.  Turns out it wasn't turkey season.  That daddy always taught that boy to do right and follow the rules.  And to top that off it was a hen turkey.  It was against the law to kill hen turkeys anytime of the year.  Well the fella almost got grounded from hunting, a fate worse than death.   But Grandma intervened, saying it was Thanksgiving time anyway the little fella did know he was wrong.  Gotta love them Grandma's

That turkey sure was good ;)
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Here is the third of three birds that I killed this last week.  He had an 8 1/2 inch beard and weighed 20 pounds.  My other big one weighed 20 pounds and had a 9 1/2 inch beard.  The other was a jake.  I killed the jake and first big one with one shot. I never did that before.
My woods crew:

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MS 260
Husky 257
Husky 359

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woodsteach

Isn't turkey hunting the greatest!

So far this year I've taken my oldest daughter (9yr) out and I shot a  9" & 10" bird with one shot.  Honestly I only wanted one, but the second on raised his head over the edge at just the right time.

My youngest (4 yrs) called in a young bird while we were sitting in a double bull blind.

This weekend I have to take my middle girl (7 yrs ) out so wish us luck!

I just noticed yesterday 3 toms, 10 jakes and 3 hens in one group.  Shouldn't they be more broken up than that?

woods
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