Home Forums Birds & Dogs Turkey Hunting the legend of butterball comes to a close. ny gobbler

Been after this nice tom for 4 days now. Missed him opening day. He was just slightly out of range. I knew his pattern but for a couple days he was hangi with a hen and would not leave her for any of my calls. Finally this mornstamp glass call and He was puffed out like mike Tyson at 25 yards or so. Had the bead on him for about 2 minutes just waiting and watchin this beautiful bird strut around. He had no clue I was there. Been wearing my usmc Digital camo and man does that blend in perfect. 1 shot with my old beauty elgium Browning a5 12 gauge. 2 3/4 Winchester high velocity #5 turkey loads. 1 shot, 1 kill. He bowled over with a neck/partial chest shot and flopped back down the hill which he came. Expired within 5 mins. No way was I gonna shoot it again and ruin the beauty of this bird.

10 inch beard, 26# on scale. My biggest bird yet. This one is for you pop up in heaven

Nice bird but electronic calls are illegal for turkey in NY and your cell phone qualifies as an electronic call.

Seriously?

Fine critter.. I love the dark colors. Congrats!

The pic does this bird no justice. The colors on his feathers are amazing. Nothing better than a puffed out spring tom Turkey

I'm not from NY, but as soon as I read the bit about the cell phone app played while hunting, I thought to myself, "I wouldn't be talking about that on the web..." Might want to edit your post...

Congrats on getting him close with sweet hen talk from that mobile phone app glass call.

Congrats on a nice bird. How long were the spurs on that rascal?
Would make a fine full mount if you had the $$ to do so.

Just shy of 1". I plan on a mount. Bringing him tomorrow

Congrats

Nice one, congrats