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Dean Romig
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 03:06 am |
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Not much of a story here. Drove to Cousin Tim's farm in Ashtabula County (highest turkey population in Ohio). Saturday morning just breaking light and the "gobbles" were coming from every direction. They were still on roost but were very vocal before flying down. We found a good spot to sit and set up operations but it turned out to be not so good. We got up and moved quickly and quietly to another location two hundred yards away. Before we even sat down we could hear a flock of feeding turkeys headed our way. There were nineteen birds; five longbeards, seven jakes and seven hens. They were going to go by us at about sixty yards but Tim and I did our best calling routines and soon some jakes and hens were moving our way. The longbeards hung-up at a little more than fifty yards - I mean they would NOT come one step closer but all five longbeards were in full strut and just kept pirouetting out there among the fiddleheads. Finally, at ten yards, one of the hens saw me blink my eyes and let out a loud warning putt. That's all it took . . . they all came to attention and started moving away quickly. Well, I came for turkey and I wasn't going to leave without one so I Parkerized a jake at fifteen yards. I could wait 'til tomorrow for a longbeard . . . but tomorrow never came. I left Ohio this morning with my second $24 turkey tag "un-filled"  Attached Image (viewed 192 times):
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 03:08 am |
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Dave Suponski
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 03:10 am |
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Good Show Young fella....
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 03:11 am |
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Nobody has a better host than Cousin Tim. He's the best!
(. . . but he'd beat me up if he knew I was postin' pictures of him  )
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RICHARD L ANDERSON
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 11:25 am |
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Isn't there a saying a bird in the hand is worth two in the fields .? I almost hit a long beard with the car a couple of days ago.
Good job on the bird Dean I'm sure he will eat well and 50% success rate isn't anything to sneeze at. i know people who haven't shot a bird in years.
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James Beilke
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 12:07 pm |
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| Dean, Never apologize for shooting a jake. Good job with the Parker. Jim
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John Dallas
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 12:32 pm |
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| 50% is great. Remember - Willy Mays never hit over .333 and he's in the Hall of Fame
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 03:42 pm |
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Congrads Dean. I been told by friends who live in PA how hard it is to take a Tom because there are too many hens. I have seen over 200 birds in one group in the fall at his place.
Went out this morning with a friend and he took a Jake at 5:40, short hunt.
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 04:25 pm |
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Of all the birds we observed in three mornings in the woods and fields roughly two thirds of them were male turkeys and two thirds of that number were jakes. Maybe the relative scarcity of hens can be attributed to a great number of them already being on the nest.
In Vermont, late in the fall, we see huge flocks too.
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Posted: Tue May 5th, 2009 08:49 pm |
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| Nice job! i have not shot mine yet but still have time, can't wait to try the 10 ga. what gun did you use and load? scott
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Wed May 6th, 2009 12:44 am |
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Scott, I used 90739 a 30" DH 12 gauge Titanic barreled gun coupled with Winchester SuperX 2 3/4" 3 1/4 dr. eq. pushing a standard 1 1/8 oz. of no. 6 lead. It's the load I've always used for turkeys and it has served me very well.
Next week in Vermont I'll be using my tightly choked 28 ga. VHE with no. 7 shot 
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Derrick Stewart
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Posted: Wed May 6th, 2009 02:14 am |
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Dean,
Tell me about the Ford tractor in the pic of Cousn Tim. Is it by chance an 801 Powermaster Diesel? If so we have one and it's been one hell of a tractor.
Oh by the way nice bird....
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Dean Romig
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Posted: Wed May 6th, 2009 03:17 am |
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| Cousin Tim has a pair of old Ford (or Ford - Ferguson, or Massey) tractors with gasoline engines. The tractor in the barn runs and works well while the one outside hasn't run since last summer. Attached Image (viewed 79 times):
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