Smoked turkey

[Harold Pickens]

I'm ready to take my punishment for a non-Parker hunt--40 lashes with a computer cord, but I had a great hunt this morning and just thought I'd share it. I used the venerable old 870 that I worked very hard to buy in high school by baling hay for the local dairy farmers. I grew up very poor( I didn't know it then), and it was the first gun I ever bought. I only use it now for turkeys. I went out to my farm this morning, and it took only 15 minutes to call in this bad boy. His beard actually measures 15 1/2 " to the end of the longest beard strands--by far the longest beard I've ever taken! It was my first time to hunt this season as I was at the Southern last week. The 870 is from the early
1960's, at least its not black plastic.

[Mills]

Good job Harold. My first gun was an 870 too.

[birddogdoc]

Nice work!

[6pt-Sika]

Darn you would think if you're going to use a Remington it could atleast be a Model 1894 10 gauge or perhaps a Model 32 or at the worst a SP-10

All BS aside congrats on a nice bird

[OH Osthaus]

nice bird Harold

those old Wingmasters are classics on their own- I have my Dad's

[Harold Pickens]

Yes, much nicer than the 870 Express models sold at all the discount stores. Mine has accounted for at least 30 turkeys and countless deer. It was my rabbit and grouse gun before I got my first double, a Fox SW 16. I have a harder time sighting down the rib of a sxs on "sitting" targets

[Mills]

One of these magazines had a list of top 10 or top 20 American guns and the 870 was not on there. My brother and I agreed that such a list without the 870 is not a list

[wayne goerres]

870 was my first shotgun.

[charlie cleveland]

very nice turkey and that turkeys beard is longer than my beard by a coupla inches.. ha you sure did not waste any time on this one... charlie

[Gerald McPherson]

I just started hunting turkeys about three weeks ago. I know very little but am eager to learn. I got my first one today with the help of a life long friend. He came up to give me some lessons. I quickly learned that I had been calling too loud.The birds have been extremely quiet since day one except for a day or two. The nights have been cold mostly in the forties.This morning it was fifty two and was like a different world. We entered a large pasture as soon as we could barely see the cow patties. Gobblers began to call immediately. We walked about two hundred yards and setup. He began to call very softly. Hens and toms seemed to be in every direction. A large hen was coming up behind us. She came very close and took a look at our decoys and then went back the way she came and continued to cluck loudly. I had doubts that the toms could even hear the soft calls my old friend was making.Suddenly this large tom came out of the woods at a run passing my decoy without even slowing and went straight to his and swelled up about three times his normal size. Jr whispered there he is just as I pulled the trigger. I wonder how many turkeys I have run off over the last three weeks. I think things are about to change. 21 pounds, 101/2 in rope and one spur was 1 1/2 inch the other was broken at 1 inch.Never to old to learn something new. Shame on you Harold. I used my old black Browning BPS But I think that old tom thought it was a Parker because the last word he said was ''TARNATION". Gerald.