Turkey Opener Successful!

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Just as day was breaking I had a gobbler across the field on the other tree line just gobbling away. Then 3 hens flew down from my left and started across the field in fron of me. I began calling with short clucks, luckily the hens ignored my calling and kept pushing toward the gobbles. Then the hens bagan clucking, one of them had to be an older bird because she had a very raspy cluck. Off to my right down the tree line a gobbler started in. I began to call, and the hens were getting rather noisy so I began to get really agressive in my calling and purrs. The gobbler to the right was closing the distance, as I heard his gobbles getting closer. Then through the trees I could see him coming pretty fast, gobbling and strutt'n and drumm'n. I raised my 870 to my shoulder and waited. My camcorder going the whole time. He came in really fast, and drummed on one side of the decoys, then moved to the jakes side and jumped up high. As he jumped, and his head was high, my 870 rang out the familliar sudden death sound

through the barrel. He dropped immediately and just flopped. What a great hunt! And all on video. I will post the video on JHO and huntingfootage.com as soon as I get it edited. It's harder to edit a video than shoot a gobbler, anyway it takes longer.

 

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EDIT TO FIRST POST:Here is an edit to my first post, I didnt realize that my bird had 2 beards, heres the edit....EDIT: I just got back from the taxidermist, he says "did you know that your bird has two beards?" I says nope, "well it does", he says, and he weiged 20.5 pounds, the one beard is 10.75 and the other is 6".

I'm still working on editing the dang thing (video) to upload it. Im no pro at video editing, beleive me! Soon as I get the pics (still) developed I will post them
Regards,
Terry

 

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Congrat's, H&W!

Let me know when you get the video editing down to a science ~ I have some video I neded worked on... LOL

 

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Hey Rick~ I dont think I will ever get it down to a science. I continuously stumble my way through it, and never know what the heck i am doing. I probably never will. I can get far enough to edit a very short clip, still havnt figured out how to properly reduce the size of the file for emails and internet purposes, and still have a rather long clip. I just chop the hell out of it.

Regards,

Terry