| Posted: Fri Apr 28th, 2006 08:40 PM |
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Melvin Eades
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Lucas and I went out this morning, 2nd day of the IL. 4th season to see if I could fill my 2nd permit. I roosted the turkeys last night and we went in before first light and got the decoys and camera set up and waited. We didn't have to wait long before they started gobbling. We were sitting in the edge of a timber that looked out over a newly planted corn field. Just as it started to get light there were 7 deer that came into the field from the creek and started milling around in the field. We watched them for about 40 minutes. They spotted our decoys and decided to investigate. They came within 20 yards of our decoys which were about 8 yards in front of me. Finally they left the field.
We were planning on giving some imitation fly down sounds, but there were several crow roosted right up behind us in the trees that we didn't know were there. They started cawing and thrashing around making a lot of noise which probably didn't help our cause.
Shortly after they left Lucas called a Jake right into the decoys. He would look them over and leave only to go about 20 ft. and come right back to them. He did this 4 times and finally Lucas made some fighting sounds to get him to leave so we could change locations since one group of turkeys went north and one went south.
We sneaked up over a hill in the field and spotted two toms down along the creek that were heading our way. We slipped back down the hill and went along the edge of the field to head them off. I spotted a hen coming around the corner of the field about 80 yards away so we backed up and set up again in the brush. There ended up being two hens and one came as close to me as 5 yards. I let them pass by and here came the two toms behind them. I shot the lead one at 15 steps. He weighed 19 lbs. and had a 9 and 3/4 in. beard.
It wasn't a real big bird, but the hunt was great and we have it all on video.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29th, 2006 12:57 AM |
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WildBill
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Congrats! Nice lookin bird.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 29th, 2006 01:59 AM |
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Excellent pic Melvin.. And excellent work on you and Lucas`s part both.I see lucas`s trademark call in the pic.You guys make quite a team with the camera and the calls....
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| Posted: Sun Apr 30th, 2006 05:50 PM |
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Great job guys.....
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