One big, dead turkey

[PTwake04]

Wow, "turkey murder" -- errm, different style of hunting, but hey, if it works!

My favorite style tends to be falling asleep and then waking up to find them right in your lap. This is really the only way I can be patient and stay in one place for a long time. It seems to work! I just wish they would gobble more often when they some around, it would be a great alarm clock to wake up to.

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

Outstanding; that's a good beard; my top length was 9.25".

How do you guys know what they weigh before gutting? Or are you giving the after-gutting weight? I don't weigh them until I check them and they are already gutted. Do you just guestimate, and add 30% to dressed weight, like a deer, or what?

 

[brian89]

With guts in it..

I never gut turkeys, I just breast them out and sometimes cut the drumsticks off, Wild birds just don't have enough meat to mess with.. I'll prolly catch some flack on this but hey, that my opinion..

 

[dennishoddy]

I keep a digital fish scale with me for the weight.

 

[imhntn]

Remington 870.

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Mesa Tactical stock adapter with a Magpul CTR and MOE grip. Just picture it with a 26" barrel and no mag extension. The 26" barrel is painted the same way.

That thing is Tacticool!

 

[93 FOX]

Friday afternoon, Wizard and I headed out for some turkey hunting. There was hurricane force winds the whole time, which made my guerrilla warfare style of hunting turkeys completely useless. This morning we were cruising back to camp and spotted some turkeys out of the corner of my eye. Two gobblers and either a hen or another small gobbler. I parked over the hill about 1/4 mile away and we sneaked our way back. I popped over the hill, and this guy was about 30 yards away, so I sent some #4 shot his way, blowing apart its right wing and sending it on a full speed run for its life. I was in hot pursuit as fast as my legs can go, which is actually pretty fast, and caught up with him in a plum thicket. A second shot while we were both running nearly ripped its left wing off. Its mass of useless wings made it get stuck in the thicket, so the third shell was carefully aimed and placed perfectly into its skull.

Not the biggest one out there, but its the biggest turkey I've ever killed, and I got it on public land. Weighed at least 20-ish pounds, 10" beard and had 3/4" spurs.

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What public land were you hunting?

 

[PTwake04]

What public land were you hunting?

If he told you he'd have to kill you.

 

[brian89]

It was on Black Kettle right???

 

[PTwake04]

Right by the camping ground I think. I think he chased it through the parking lot.

 

[brian89]

heck yours wasn't far from there.. as far as you shoot turkeys you prolly could of been setting at camp and hit that one..HAHA