turkey hunting - Page 5

mobirdhunter · 04-23-2020, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Don't know whether I'm good or just lucky . Probably just lucky! Set up Mon. morning, birds gobbled down below me, made 1 series of yelps, and laid the box call down. 6:40 and done for the day, birds were still carrying on, so took the gobbler back to the truck and exchanged gun for thermos of coffee and some oatmeal raisin cookies. Sat there in the sunshine listening to them carry on, no doubt I could have called in another , but only 1/day. Then caught a stringer of bluegills and crappies--my version of a Blast and Cast! Been back in the area for the next 3 days lugging around the Beast--a grade 2 12ga hammer gun with 30" F/F chokes--damn, I need a sling on that thing. Not the gun I want when I have to run and gun the logging roads, but really want to shoot a turkey with it. Maybe tomorrow.

Sounds like a day to remember! Pictures if you have any.

Harold Pickens · 04-25-2020, 06:39 PM

Sure Garry, I got pictures- but not of that one. Got this one today with the Grade 2 hammer 12 with 30" F/FF, ser 34275. No action early morning, and was half asleep in a lawn chair when one gobbled over the hill. Put the decoy out quickly and he popped into the field 250 yds out. Came right in, and at 100 yds, laid down the box call, cocked the hammers, and just used my natural voice to bring it thr rest of the way in. Thought he was at 25 yds, but was 32yds. Shooting 1 1/8 oz of #7's with 23 gr of 7625 in a Rem hull. Went down real hard.
Two year old with 10" beard and 1 " spurs, probably 20 lbs. Very happy with it. My first Parker turkey--pictures to follow, have to download off my phone.
Hey Garry, didn't you live in Ohio for a while??-flushed a grouse in strip pit area, made me quite happy!!

Harold Pickens · 04-25-2020, 06:45 PM

Pictures

Dean Romig · 04-25-2020, 07:05 PM

Nice bird Harold.

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Harold Pickens · 04-25-2020, 07:16 PM

Gun was made in 1883, 137 yrs old and still kickin'

J. A. EARLY · 04-25-2020, 08:44 PM

Gave a Trojan to my cousin's grandson last week. Let turkey walk by him and never saw it. This week after ninety minutes of cold calling, well, you can guess what happens. So much for a photo for the Parker Pages.

I'm carrying a new to me 20 ga A5 all wrapped up (so don't jump on me about it!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq6ONiiPDYA

Big D · 04-26-2020, 08:09 AM

Had a tom and two hens come in to me, and as they came around the corner, the lead hen saw my decoy. She didn't like it, and told the old man. I understood her to say "what's she got that I don't have?" End of today's hunt.

mobirdhunter · 04-26-2020, 05:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Harold Lee Pickens

Sure Garry, I got pictures- but not of that one. Got this one today with the Grade 2 hammer 12 with 30" F/FF, ser 34275. No action early morning, and was half asleep in a lawn chair when one gobbled over the hill. Put the decoy out quickly and he popped into the field 250 yds out. Came right in, and at 100 yds, laid down the box call, cocked the hammers, and just used my natural voice to bring it thr rest of the way in. Thought he was at 25 yds, but was 32yds. Shooting 1 1/8 oz of #7's with 23 gr of 7625 in a Rem hull. Went down real hard.
Two year old with 10" beard and 1 " spurs, probably 20 lbs. Very happy with it. My first Parker turkey--pictures to follow, have to download off my phone.
Hey Garry, didn't you live in Ohio for a while??-flushed a grouse in strip pit area, made me quite happy!!

Harold, that is a beautiful Tom and a wonderful gun to take him with. Yes, I did live in SE Ohio (Athens) for a while, and ventured back to grouse hunt for many years until the bottom fell out. I sure miss those days. I killed my first turkey in Ohio during one of their very first seasons back in the late 1970s. I wish I had the energy and desire I had then.

You've inspired me to take my EH 10 tomorrow morning. I tagged my first bird last Wednesday (with a gun not to be mentioned on this site!). I know where 6 gobblers are having a party every morning about an hour away. Their set-up is perfect for them (and not for a hunter), but we'll see what can be finessed...if it does not rain as predicted.

Thanks for posting your pictures, and letting me know that there is still at least one grouse in Ohio.

Take care an be safe,

Garry

mobirdhunter · 04-26-2020, 05:14 PM

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Originally Posted by John Dallas

Had a tom and two hens come in to me, and as they came around the corner, the lead hen saw my decoy. She didn't like it, and told the old man. I understood her to say "what's she got that I don't have?" End of today's hunt.

Women! Whadaya gonna do??!!

Harold Pickens · 04-26-2020, 08:01 PM

Garry, were you at Ohio University? Had 2 yrs there, 72-74, before going on to Ohio State. The grouse I flushed was in Jefferson County, and the next day heard one drumming there. Man, that sure made my day!! Yes, grouse hunting in eastern Ohio was as good as anywhere. I was hunting the UP then also, and always said the hunting was not better in the UP, just a whole lot easier--no steep hills, no multiflora, or greenbriar.
Do you remember the name Nelson Groves, a grouse hunting legend from that area( Nelsonville).