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Post by bowbum on May 10, 2017 14:50:38 GMT -5
Our hunters couldn't make it back up so I did a little calling this morning from the porch.....no answer. Went to the barn while my wife chided that I must have scared the birds into Tioga County. She had never heard a fly-down cackle and thought no self respecting turkey would like that noisy chatter and squawking. After a bit I spotted two gobblers. Got behind the wood pile and ambushed him. One still lives.  |
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Post by dougell on May 10, 2017 15:45:41 GMT -5
Nice bird.Is that like being a skunk in the woodpile?
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Post by bowbum on May 10, 2017 16:00:46 GMT -5
Yeah, skunked him today. I'll take that.  |
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Post by dennyf on May 10, 2017 16:00:56 GMT -5
Feel bad you didn't get one from the porch.  |
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Post by bowbum on May 10, 2017 16:13:05 GMT -5
Feel bad you didn't get one from the porch. They took their good old time getting there and I got tired of sitting by the kitchen window. If they'd been 20 minutes earlier I could've stay in the warm and sent Kate out to breast him. |
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Post by buzz on May 10, 2017 16:29:32 GMT -5
I'm surprised the foliage was not to heavy this time of year. Apparently you have been able to keep up on the lawn mowing............  |
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Post by rem700 on May 10, 2017 16:38:12 GMT -5
Nice job!!
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Post by turkeykiller on May 10, 2017 16:53:45 GMT -5
Congrats! nice bird
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Post by davet on May 10, 2017 17:13:54 GMT -5
I'll bet his coffee didn't even get cold!! Cluck.....cluck.....BANG....sip. sip. Man.....living is GOOD!!! Jives....can you clean this bird? LMAO2
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2017 18:02:38 GMT -5
Congrats! At least someone has had some luck!
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Post by 3212 on May 10, 2017 20:14:24 GMT -5
Good for you.Its a regular Game park up there.
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Post by jj103 on May 10, 2017 21:19:59 GMT -5
Nice job Bowbum, That is proof that in Bradford Co. you have to go back in the deep woods to bag game.  Hunting isn't like the good old days!! |
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Post by bowbum on May 11, 2017 7:24:52 GMT -5
Good for you.Its a regular Game park up there. Thank you. I'll not deny the blessings I have here. I have a great situation that is made better by our protecting it and doing what we can to preserve those conditions. I've opened our place up to several youth hunters, and their mentors, over the years but in honesty, only one of them continued to have enough gumption to return and make the effort. He and his dad have taken a ton of birds since he was ten, (he's now in his second year of college), but they've been here three times this year and had no luck. I always wait until they are done for the year before I load the model 12. |
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Post by ridgecommander on May 11, 2017 7:26:30 GMT -5
Looks like a good one.
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Post by fleroo on May 11, 2017 7:41:15 GMT -5
That split Ash looked perty, until you put that "thing" on it. |
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Post by 3212 on May 11, 2017 8:58:39 GMT -5
Good for you.Its a regular Game park up there. Thank you. I'll not deny the blessings I have here. I have a great situation that is made better by our protecting it and doing what we can to preserve those conditions. I've opened our place up to several youth hunters, and their mentors, over the years but in honesty, only one of them continued to have enough gumption to return and make the effort. He and his dad have taken a ton of birds since he was ten, (he's now in his second year of college), but they've been here three times this year and had no luck. I always wait until they are done for the year before I load the model 12. |
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Post by 3212 on May 11, 2017 8:59:08 GMT -5
Thank you. I'll not deny the blessings I have here. I have a great situation that is made better by our protecting it and doing what we can to preserve those conditions. I've opened our place up to several youth hunters, and their mentors, over the years but in honesty, only one of them continued to have enough gumption to return and make the effort. He and his dad have taken a ton of birds since he was ten, (he's now in his second year of college), but they've been here three times this year and had no luck. I always wait until they are done for the year before I load the model 12. |
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Post by 3212 on May 11, 2017 9:09:33 GMT -5
I have a '58 model 12 I bought after my discharge from the Navy in'64.I took a couple hens in the fall many years ago with it.I've taken a sample of most of our game birds with it.I have grandsons in Florida who I hope to take hunting in PA some day.They are kept busy preparing for college.I go down and take them fishing occasionally.By the the time we can take a hunt they will probably be in their late teens and I will be late 70's.Send your kids to college and this is what happens.They leave this state for better opportunities.
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Post by bowbum on May 11, 2017 15:51:18 GMT -5
I have a '58 model 12 I bought after my discharge from the Navy in'64.I took a couple hens in the fall many years ago with it.I've taken a sample of most of our game birds with it.I have grandsons in Florida who I hope to take hunting in PA some day.They are kept busy preparing for college.I go down and take them fishing occasionally.By the the time we can take a hunt they will probably be in their late teens and I will be late 70's.Send your kids to college and this is what happens.They leave this state for better opportunities. When you left the navy, I took your place....2-1965. Got my "well used" model 12 in 1967...don't know what year it is. I'm not much of a shotgunner and only break it out for turkey. Did try duck and goose hunting about 20 years ago in Saskatchewan with it and had a blast. |
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Post by good ole boy on May 11, 2017 16:06:51 GMT -5
Nice goin.Congrats.
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Hunting isn't like the good old days!!