Pix of 20 lb. gobbler
taken this morning April 12, 2005 around 8:19 AM.....his beard is 11.5
inches long and the spur length is 1 inch and 1/16. The other pix shows how
close the turkey was to the decoys. I have only heard two toms gobbling so
far this season and they were a good ways off. I went yesterday morning and
heard one gobble around 7:10 A.M. and he answered my call but he would not
come in.
I relocated on him
this morning or where I though he was and didn't hear a single gobble. I
set up at two different places and made some sweet seductive yelps on the
ole mahogany box call but nothing would respond.
The second time I
relocated, I again set up the hen decoy and the young jake decoy and after
the first series of yelps I heard a hen yelp behind and to the right of my
position....my first thought was, dang there is another hunter in here close
to me because it really didn't sound that good of a yelp for a turkey.
Another short two note type yelp was heard and I heard movement coming to my
position. I was set up for the turkeys to come in front of the decoys but
it doesn't always go as planned. I could tell the noise in the woods were turkeys running and they kept getting closer and closer. The first
turkey to come out from my right side was about 15 yards from me and his
waddles were crimson red and his head was bright blue and white. He
immediately went right up the jake decoy less than two feet from the decoy
and bowed up a little, turned his head sideways and did a little head bobble
to intimidate the jake but the jake decoy stood his ground. I didn't turn my head to see what other birds were
coming out since this ole boy was a keeper and aligned the green and red tru-glo sights on the gobbler's head
and fired the Remington 11-87 super magnum with the Remington # 5 hevi-shot
and it just about took the turkeys head off...the turkeys behind and to my
right flew and ran off but the ole boy in the picture is in the
refrigerator waiting to be marinated before deep frying in the very near
future.
PS I could not
grin real big or at all; my store bought teeth were still in the soak tank
at home. Still, not bad for a self-portrait!
The below pix is where
the ole Gobbler fell. He was closer to the decoys but the shot knocked him
away from them some!
Below is pix of the turkey breasts ready for vacuum
packaging for later usage.
The turkey breast fillets weighed 5 pounds total.
Later, Bill aka Mickey Porter
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take
this moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation
will be attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James
Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation,
King James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."
