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Just that.

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Very nice!

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Nice, looks like a beautiful morning too. 👍

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Awesome.


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And I see you used your call! How cool is that.

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I think you were in my woods, I recognize that grapevine in the background. Pretty cool doing it old school.

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So what's the story? Bust a flock and call it back?

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It WAS a beautiful morning !!!!!

Too warm.............the deer hunting has sucked. So I decided to scrap that for the day and go shoot a turkey. Couldn't get my brother to go. So I went it alone. Knew the birds would be somewhere on our one high ridge or thereabouts. Just not sure which end. Got to a good listening spot pre-daylight and ends up the birds were about 100 yards to my right............ right below me through wide open timber. I was NOT in a good place. But I started talking to them with the tube call. In the woods, the yelp sounds like a turkey in a culvert pipe. But the kee-kee is just pretty darned impressive. About 10 minutes later I hear a cluck below me....... to my left. I'm in a crap spot to be set up. But there was a flock coming from there. So I yelped a few times and kee-kee'd. I could see 10 or a dozen of them coming around the bottom of the slope. But one or more was drifting uphill toward me. I kee-kee'd again and got the gun ready. One hen popped up in front of a maple down below me. But there were a couple small saplings in the way. Waited til she took a step and lowered the boom on her. Pretty much the end of the quick story.


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Originally Posted by Rickshaw
Pretty cool doing it old school.

Confession................ I was GONNA do it old skool and take my 1933 Model 21 Winchester 12 gauge SxS. But, I deferred to my standby turkey hammer for this hunt.

The tube call WAS the only one I took this morning. Felt funny not having a box with me or a diaphragm in my cheek. But the tube call was either gonna do it or it wasn't.

Worked like poison.

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Excellent. Miss those woods this time of year.


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very cool, congratulations


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I have a shotgun so I have no need for a 30-06.....
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Nice hen I thought you didn't care to shoot turkeys in the fall ?

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Originally Posted by LFC
Nice hen I thought you didn't care to shoot turkeys in the fall ?

Thanks for all the kind words, fellers.

Truthfully............. I really don't. But this morning was kinda a different deal. Wanted to go call one in with the call that had laid in a box for 4 decades. So, at this moment........that doofy little film can has called in the first bird I ever killed and the last bird that I have killed. I would have been even happier had my brother come along and shot the bird, instead. But he had stuff to do, so......

The hunt, itself was sorta neat in that the birds weren't broken, but 30 minutes fresh off the limb. Just called the whole wad of them around the hill. From what I saw of the other 10-12, I think I ended up shooting about the smallest of the group. But she stuck her fat head up first, so........ Just wasn't her day.

Gonna do her up in the smoker.


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Hen wing bones make the best yelpers!

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Originally Posted by Yoder409
Gonna do her up in the smoker.

Donnie bOy were you by chance on Martha Stewart's pOe staff ?

Be nteresting to hear how you plan on smoking her.

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Originally Posted by MartinStrummer
Hen wing bones make the best yelpers!

Mature hen wingbones from about an 8 to 9 lb hen make a nice caller....

With populations declining most places hen wing bones might be like getting hens teeth again.

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Originally Posted by MartinStrummer
Hen wing bones make the best yelpers!

I may just peel them out of the carcass and have a go at that. Never tried before.


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Nice work.

Years ago my young son and I were kinda-sorta squirrel hunting and busted a flock. Got out my ancient Tiny Coiner and called some back and he busted one, I would’ve had one too, but I was carrying my .22/45 MKIII with an empty chamber and the POS misfed as usual.

Having them around and in season makes thing more interesting in the Fall. In this county, the season is very short, and the birds are very much a sometime thing, until rifle season for deer anyway when they’re off the menu.


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Originally Posted by Pappy348
In this county, the season is very short, and the birds are very much a sometime thing, until rifle season for deer anyway when they’re off the menu.

And THEN..........they're EVERYWHERE. 😁


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