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So the Mrs. finally tagged her very first gobbler!! 7:00 on Monday AM at 15 yards. Big Tom, 22 lbs, 10 1/4" beard and total 2 6/16" spurs. He came in and whooped up on a jake decoy and as soon as he paused and stuck out his neck, BANG!!!! To say she's excited is an understatement!! :)

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The only hesitation is they do a lot of scouting; mostly from the cab of a truck riding around which I don't do due to lack of time to my disadvantage. They probably know every turkey in my county that comes to a field; even tell me about birds around my house that I have never seen, so I'm sure they were checking their mailbox (a phrase truck hunters here use when riding around checking fields). But I could have said no I'm on my way back there after fooling with the turkey earlier. But I didn't. Here is the young man with his 21 pound prize and his grandpa. My granddaughter goes to school with him and he did tell her he killed my turkey on her gr. gr. grandpa's farm and sent her this photo.

Congratulations to the Mrs.! After an attack from that bird the decoy must be trashed.

Mike your wife put a whoopin on that old Tom. Looks like she jelly headed it. I am sure that was just as exciting for you as it was for her. If she gets the bug now you might not get another shot. The real trick will to get her to learn to call so she can call one up for you.

She says she just may go out again next year. As for that decoy, yes sir, it did get it's butt kicked by her Tom and mine. Good thing AvianX makes a quality decoy!!

Guess that decoy is part of the metoo movement now

I was not drawn for an AZ turkey tag but a friend and my brother were. Thought I would share a nice picture. They were hunting just souh of the north rim of the Grand Canyon.

http://parkerguns.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1526068386

nice bird and what a view...i would hate to climb into that canyon to retrieve a big bird....charlie

Wow Phil what a view.Now thats a tag of a lifetime.

Definity a very neat place to hunt. Charlie the first climb back out with the turkeys is the worse. :whistle:

I'll bet 20 plus pounds added as dead weight would add to complexity of the walk out. But that will just be part of the memory and that bird will taste that much better.

I am a self proclaimed connoisseur of barbecue and I have tried and proven fact about what it takes to make a great experience and call it The Declaration of BBQ. It is a precedent setting case law of the land that simply states "the quality of the BBQ experience is equal or proportionate to some degree of suffering." Whether it be in the making of it, the journey to get there, or the surroundings. I stumbled across my theory now proven fact by peer review when we were told about a BBQ joint that was in a very rough part of town, across from the street from Federal pen in Atlanta, in a building that would not let my dog stay at, had to wait in line to get served behind politicians and a flock of attorneys, it was hot and there was no air conditioning and it was some damn fine barbecue.

I think Turkey hunting has some similarities or features that go with my BBQ Law.

Oh by the way the First Axiom to my BBQ law is that they also must serve some sort of a banana flavored desert. Banana pudding is preferred, but did find some of the best road side barbecue I have ever had but obviously they did not have the pudding, but luckily the convenience store nearby that had bars in front of all things glass and even had signature buckshot pellet indention's in front of the cashiers plexi glass did have a banana flavored Moon Pie.:)

Hey Phil how far down the canyon can you hear a gobble.I guess if the gobbler is on top of the rim and your below you might not hear him.Or vice versa I'm sure the gobblers use the terrain to their advantage.

I was kind of joking about the climb out of the canyon. Its darn rough country. That said we hunt just off the boundary to the Grand Canyon. I know for sure you can hear a gobbler over a mile. ( if the wind is not blwing. ) we use a coyote howling call to get the turkeys to shock gobble. We regularly can hear gobblers responding over a mile +.

Now thats just great Phil another thing to do on bucket list.Hearing and gobbler on the rim of the Grand Canyon.Got to be one hell of hunt even if the birds don't cooperate.

Phil, have you had any success calling a keyed up longbeard from that kind of distance?

A few years ago in Vt a big ol gobbler answered my lonesome hen yelps from over a half mile away. Closer and closer he came to my beckoning pleas and when he was about to cross through the last wooded fencerow into the field I was sitting at the far edge of from him BLAM!!

And that was the end of him. Another hunter was concealed in that fencerow...






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Dean about the furthest I have called a turkey was the one I shot this year out of the deep canyon which was 500 yards. We have located turkeys at about a mile and then closed the distance and then closed the deal.
Its big country out here so a typical morning if we havent roosted one the night before is to try to drive around and shock one into gobbling, park the truck, set the GPS so I can find my way back to the truck. Surprizing how well you can hear a gobble on a cold wind free morning.
Then using a headlamp try to hustle as fast as possible to get to the Gobbler. I like to try to get within 200 yards or closer with out spooking him. Then a few tree yelps and hopefully get him to fly down in our direction. It only works for me about 15% of the time if they are around hens. I sure wish I was more experienced but I keep learning.

Same here Phil. I began turkey hunting when Vt opened the section I hunt in 2002 I believe. Every time I hunt them I learn more about their behavior.





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Prior to the season I had mentioned that I had hopes of tagging a long bead with a Parker. Never pursued turkeys with a SxS before as I have stuck with archery equipment for the last several years. The beginning of turkey season here in IN and the Southern are the same weekends so that week was a no go.
I did get to go out a little the following weekend but the birds did not read the packaging on my decoys and reacted in a totally inappropriate manner, stupid birds ! Finally on the last morning of the season it all came together and I was able to call this long beard in. Appeared to be a 3 year old with an 11" beard. I was using RST ammo with 1 1/4 oz of #4 in my 34" VHE. In as much as I love those long barrels I have to admit they are not made for carrying through the woods. Not real handy in a blind either. No matter how far back I sat in that blind I still had a lot of barrel protruding which is not a real issue until you have to move from window A to Window B then it gets a little tricky. I'm gonna need a bigger blind or get that move perfected for next year.

great storey of the hunt and a nice bird indeed....i agree with you long barrels are not easy to carry around in the woods...charlie

Awesome reports. Wish I could have gotten out this year to chase them but not able to for all kind of the wrong and indefensible reason. Glad to hear of some of the great successful harvests, the successful outings with family and ole Jerry giving up a bird in the hand for hopefully a greater good. Btw I'm certain Jerry felt he got whacked a little with a boat paddle to give up the bird.

Reminded of the story Jeff Foxworthy told about bass fishing with Jerry Reed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wy7uDPSQyQU


BTw Phil that is awesome you hunting turkey's in Arizona by the Grand Canyon. I had no idea there was even hunt-able population of birds even in that region of the country.

Well its over and I didn't tag out but I sure enjoyed trying.This was my fourth season hunting turkeys I don't know why I didn't start years earlier but I just sat around listening to them gobble. Finally about half way through the first season I decided to give it a try and found it was a lot of fun. The birds that I hunt rarely gobble but they will often come in quietly because of coyotes I believe as they will also come in quietly. Just yesterday thought about how many days until dove season. Sure hope I am able to do it again next year. One good turkey equals maybe a hundred doves and I like turkey better. My wife has begun to like it also. My daughter who is eating organic food only thought I had cooked some of her chicken ate some and thought it was the best chicken she had ever eaten. About two hours later I told her it was wild turkey and it was as organic as it gets. She had a fit. Go figure.

Gerald I pulled a similar prank many years ago on my girls only I used beef tongue. Figured it would be good for a laugh and that would be the end of it.
They loved it and now they ask me to fix it on a regular basis, go figure. Hang in there with the turkeys, they are similar to Parkers in that they can both be addicting.

Northern New Hampshire is full of turkeys this season......often 5 toms in the field at once now, with other hens roosting, only one hen as a companion. Poor thing gets lots of attention. Two pictures; this year's tom (May 7) registered at 22lbs, 10" beard, 1 1/2" spurs (1903 VH 12ga, Polywad low brass #6, 2 3/4 dram shell) and the other picture is just three of the toms with the hens in April before they bedded down. To be honest, I sit on the edge of the field, do a little clucking and this year's tom came within 20yds in less than an hour. Don't be jealous, it's not always that way....

I'm certainly jealous!! :whistle: Congrats

thats a great looking bird and gun....you called him in close....great.....charlie

There's a little story behind the gun, Charlie. Got it for the price of taking it out of a good friend's attic in 2009. Been stored there over 20 yrs in a too tight Redhead case and covered in dusty rust with a broken wrist, bores not too bad. Took her home, used the RX instruction on the PGCA website, repaired the stock, cleaned her inside and out and had my first Parker. I call her "Ruthie" after the lady who gave it to me.

Great pics and story. Julia and I think of you often and the nights around the campfire sipping bourbon and burning cigars. Thanks for posting that.

Along with some good times romping in the woods.......thanks!