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Post by shaman on May 21, 2006 20:19:01 GMT -5
Set up the blind at 10am this morning.
Two toms and 2 hens on the field.
They were wandering around the top of the field.
We walked up to get in sight of them and they walked right down by the blind.
AWESOME!
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Post by BT on May 21, 2006 20:54:37 GMT -5
Good Grief !....so if one of you had stayed you would have had a bird?!
That's rough!
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Post by shaman on May 21, 2006 21:01:35 GMT -5
Nope. No hunting on Sundays in Maine.
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Post by BT on May 22, 2006 5:36:12 GMT -5
That's right!....I keep forgetting that.
That really messes me up when I want to take my one week off to go deer hunting at my fathers place.
Unless I take the entire week it just always seems that Sunday is the day which messes up my perfect plan as far as juggling work and hunting.
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Post by shaman on May 22, 2006 8:56:51 GMT -5
Dad and I set up our blind ysterday. This is from the woods side, 10 yards away. Batteries went dead so I could not get pick from inside.  This morning I set up at 7am. GOBBLE GOBBLE... I called once.. closer GOBBLE GOBBLE. Called twice GOBBLE GOBBLE in the field off to my right, closed windows.. that's ok. I have my decoy set up well. 3 Toms and 2 jakes come into view. I take aim at 17yds and shoot low. ARRGGHHH, I had forgot in the excitement to kneel. I was still sitting in my arm chair. My form was all off. The turkeys shuffle a little bit but the Diablo was so quiet and the blind effective enough that I take another arrow out of my quiver and take aim a second time. POOF/THUD. The turkey explodes into the aim and comes down on the nock of the arrow. The arrow did not get pass through. The turkeys shuffle off and he pops out 15-20 yards fluttering and comes to rest outside my range (no rangefinder and only 1 SGH head left). I wait 10 minutes and he Pops again out another 10 yards. This time though he comes down tail feathers up and seems to do a last gasp and deflates. I call everyone saying I am going to tag out and I call the land owner to bring down his camera. Sheldon is on his way down and the bird has not stirred for another 10 minutes, so I step out of the blind and stretch. After about 5 minutes he pops again and this time reaches the wood line and flutters and deflates again. About 2 minutes later Sheldon shows up and we walk over to where the turkey is supposed to be. NOTHING!!!!! We searched for an hour and half in the woods out to about 200 yards deep and 200 yards wide. Nothing. Here are some pics of the broadhead and turkey feather. There were more chest feathers, but this was one from where he laid down the first time.    |
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Post by shaman on May 22, 2006 18:37:58 GMT -5
Well, my neighbor, my dad and I searched high and low for the turkey. We went 400 yards in 3 directions away from the field. Nothing. Well, not nothing! I consider what I did find a once in a lifetime event. A newborn fawn.        |
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Post by BT on May 22, 2006 21:36:12 GMT -5
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Post by shaman on May 22, 2006 21:58:11 GMT -5
Didn't I test that line of heads and post about the tester for that company who said (and I quote) "I would never use these heads on anything"  The Hammerheads? Sometimes you use what you have and not what you want. I now have what I want. But to be fair, my Dad and Bro have both taken turkey with Hammerhead 4Blades and not had any recovery issues. But the blade twisting I had, ouch. I returned the loaners to my Dad and he can replace the blades if he wants. I got Spitfire 100 Gobbler Getters as replacements. |
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Post by bloodtrailer on May 23, 2006 3:06:31 GMT -5
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Post by BT on May 23, 2006 5:54:43 GMT -5
Glad you got the NAP heads and hopefully you'll get another chance.
My father says the Turkeys are thick as fleas up around Dexter and the farmers are suffering alot of crop loss due to them.
That is to say that their dropping mixed in with the grain does not please the cows taste buds so the feed is going to waste due to this.
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and congrats on that once in a lifetime find 