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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: 30coupe on April 18, 2016, 10:03:00 PM
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Opening day of Iowa turkey season. I had this tom come in at 7:40. He was facing me at about 10 yards...right next to the decoy, so I focused on his wattle and the arrow was on its way. It made kind of a funny clicking noise and he ran off about 25 yards then started to stagger, tipped over, flopped a few more yards, and all was still.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/30coupe/Spring%20Turkey%202016/Hero%20shot_zpsoo6gbcgt.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/30coupe/media/Spring%20Turkey%202016/Hero%20shot_zpsoo6gbcgt.jpg.html)
It turns out the clicking noise was one blade of the Bullhead slicing his beak lengthwise...sorry I didn't think to take a picture of that. One of the other blades made this nice slice in his throat.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v612/30coupe/Spring%20Turkey%202016/Sore%20throat_zpshxfn2ssv.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/30coupe/media/Spring%20Turkey%202016/Sore%20throat_zpshxfn2ssv.jpg.html)
My cousin, FAV52, has been telling me how great these heads work. In fact he gave me the one I was using. I'm a believer now! Had I not hit the beak, he would have no doubt been decapitated, not that it mattered all that much to this guy. If I had my druthers, I'd prefer to have a different angle, but this one was no less effective I guess.
All-in-all, it was quite a fun day. Love my Bama Hunter too, by the way.
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Very nice! Congrats!
I'm getting jealous seeing these bird harvests.
I've yet to put one down with the bow, and I have to wait until this Saturday to get after them!
Thanks for sharing.
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Way to go!
Congrats,
Bisch
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Congrats!
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Great job! Love my Bama Bow, too.
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I need to try some of those , Congrats on a fine bird and great shot sir.....
,,,Sam,,,
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Congrats, nice bird.
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Originally posted by SAM E. STEPHENS:
I need to try some of those , Congrats on a fine bird and great shot sir.....
,,,Sam,,,
You should. Anyone who's hunted turkeys very long has lost one or more birds with what looked like solid body shots. I know I have. With head/neck shots it's pretty much either a clean miss or a dead bird. Even if this bird hadn't dropped in sight, the blood trail would have led us right to him. How many times have you found much of any blood trail with a body shot?
I'm very impressed with these things! With the size of the cutting diameter, if you can hit a four or even five inch circle at ten yards, you should have no issues with these. This one was beating the crap out of our jake decoy set at 10 yards, so that's about how far I had to shoot.
At ten I think I could hit one in the head or neck with a Simmons Tigershark pretty easily as well, but I like the margin of error you get with the Bullheads. Hitting him in the beak did kind of bend one of the blades back a bit, but it's still razor sharp and I wouldn't hesitate to launch it at another bird.
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Congrats on a nice bird, I messed mine up yesterday.
I went out at 12:30 and had 2 toms strutting at 15 yards behind me for 2 1/2 hours before I got a shot.
Nerves got me I guess.
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Well done... :clapper:
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Great shooting. Congrats
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Congratulations :thumbsup:
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Thats the way to start out the season Russ thats a dandy beard dragger!
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Congrats!
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Congratulations Russ! We're you hunting down at your property? That's a fine bird! :clapper:
Bernie
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Great looking bird, congratulations!!
-Jay
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An outstanding shot and a great way to start the season!
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Congradulations and thanks for sharing! I am very excited....going to have a 5 day camp out hunt in N. Lower Michigan in May. I been practicing with the Bullheads and adapted then to my Douglas Fir Surewood shafts.
Can't wait!!
Dan
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Congratulations!
Mike
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:thumbsup: :clapper:
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Good shooting , I can't wait for my opportunity at Trad bow turkey.
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Nice bird Russ!
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Originally posted by Bernie B.:
Congratulations Russ! We're you hunting down at your property? That's a fine bird! :clapper:
Bernie
Thanks Bernie. No, I was hunting with my cousin Frank near Clarksville. My ten year-old granddaughter killed one at my place with her wheelie bow on Sunday, and her dad is going to hunt there this weekend, but I haven't had a chance to hunt my own ground yet. Still have another tag though, so I might take one there too.
Last night my wife and I enjoyed some crock pot wild turkey breast smothered in a home canned tomatoes, peppers and onion mix she makes. It was tender and delicious! It's also the only wild game I can get her to eat, lol!
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Thanks guys. It was a fun, but very short hunt. It normally takes me days to get a shot, sometimes I don't. Turkeys have always kind of been my nemesis. :mad:
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Originally posted by kleine:
Congrats on a nice bird, I messed mine up yesterday.
I went out at 12:30 and had 2 toms strutting at 15 yards behind me for 2 1/2 hours before I got a shot.
Nerves got me I guess.
I understand the nerves thing. A few years ago I had five jakes come it and I shot right over the biggest one's back...twice! I guess he hung around because he couldn't believe I could miss that badly, so I had to prove it to him again before he took off! :knothead:
The place Frank and I hunt is best in the morning, so we usually try to get into the blind before daylight. Hunting at my acreage is a late morning or afternoon affair though, which is great if you like to sleep in.
Keep after them. I'm sure you'll connect pretty soon. How's your dad getting along by the way?
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A great start to turkey season for sure ! First on Saturday I had the GREAT pleasure of setting with my 13 year old granddaughter Allie as she harvested her very first turkey ; then on Monday setting next to Russ as he harvested a fine tom . I didn't think he was ever going to shoot ; waited until the bugger beat the snot out of my jake decoy ; then had to let him walk off a little to get the shot . I was more excited waiting and watching these two then if I had been shooting myself . Now it's my time ! I have been hunting this block sense the early 70's even before there where turkey's present . Some time in the 80's they stocked 2 tom's and 5 hen's if I remember correctly . They have done very well and have a some what large healthy flock . good hunting