Another couple of years Mills and your son will be ready for the hunt. He's getting big.

I have three weeks to go before I get my chance at old mister Tom. First I have to get my grandson on a bird during the Utah youth hunt which runs three days ahead of the general season. Them if my grandson gets his bird I hope to get his dad on a Tom. He has never shot a turkey.

I won't be pulling the trigger until they take their birds. I plan on hunting with my GH this year.

I went and did a little spoting and patterning some turkeys the last two mornings.

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me and the dogs loaded up in the old geo tracker and went to our turkey hunting ground we seen six turkeys i know two of them were gobblers they was all fuzzed up..shoulda took my binoculars...any i m working this week but next week gona hunt every day if all goes to plan...hope you other fellows good luck...charlie

Good luck Charlie.

I had the 1878 10 2-frame Lifter repaired where the heavy loads cracked both sides of the stock. Still wanted to kill a turkey with it so I tried 35 yards with 1 1/4 oz of 6s. With .035 choke in it I would not trust it on a turkey. For some reason, the pattern is thin enough a turkey would run off. At two targets no shots from either barrel hit the vital areas enough for a clean kill. I can't trust it at over 30 yards so I will hold off until I need turkey number three to prolong my hunting season.

good luck j.a. i too have a coupla 10 ga that dont pattern well but i have some that will do the trick at beyond 40 steps....and some of them new turkey choke guns is just unbeliveable....charlie

Nebraska Longbeard killed yesterday at 22 yards with The Twister, formerly Mike Franzen's Space Age Parker.....an 1880 lifter 12 gauge with 32" plain twist barrels featured in his Parker Pages article...thank you again Mike!
This bird and his buddy hollered for two hours after fly down before circling and strutting up behind me. One gobbled wicked close then starting drumming. My heart was pounding making the barrels move with each beat and one of the toms putted softly twice at that. Their fatal move was attempting to slide past on my left to find the "hen". Pausing behind a small oak was all that was needed to aim and fire an ounce and an eighth of nickel 5s. Once the smoke cleared I could see the shot was true. Son Tim and friend Niles did very well with their 870s.
Returning to New England today to prepare for more Parker and turkey adventures. Talk about a stress test - My heart rate just returned to normal

Well done!:cool:

mighty nice bird you got with that big ten ga.my heart also skips beats when a big gobbler is close sometimes i think their going to hear my heart beating and fly away...nothing like takeing a turkey down for me..its the same feeling after all these years...charlie

"Tik-Tik Oumm..... Gobagagagaga!!

I can't wait! I was at camp in Vt a few days ago and there were turkeys everywhere - in the fields, in the edges of the woods - everywhere....

In two weeks when the season opens they will be hard to find. We'll really work to call them into killing range.






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