I have my flight from Milan,Italy, on the 6th,I'll arrive in my second home state,Colorado and pack my staff to lead to Nebraska where i'll meet a fellow TGanger to hunt wild turkeys for the first time.I am really excited because I heard that this is a fun hunt.Then we have a schedule for meeting some big Bear collectors and a traditional bowhunting mith.I can't wait.
I will keep you posted on my journey.
Good luck Felix, I envy you a little bit. Wish I were home in Georgia to hunt some.
Felix, sound like a great time, and lots of fun, remember to take your camera. Have a good trip.
Good luck and the best for you!
Go get'em Felix-Hap
Good luck Felix!
Bill
Best of luck to you Felix. Safe travels.
S.
Thanks so much all,keep you posted!
Felix,
Be safe and have fun. :thumbsup:
you will love it!
Good luck!
Felix, Have a safe trip and can't wait to hear the stories of the hunt.
Also, a package from MD will be there in CO waiting for you!
Good luck, have a safe trip and hunt.
Leland
Good luck sir! :campfire:
Good Luck Felix! Really wish I could join you there. But I'm stuck hunting Osceolas here in Florida for now.
Good hunting.
Good luck, be safe, and take lots of pictures!!
Can't wait to see the pictures, you should have a blast!
Have fun Felix! Keep the camera handy too!
Looking forward to hearing the events of this adventure.
Best of luck, camaraderie and enjoyment!
Have a safe trip and you will love hunting those birds.
Dave
GOOD LUCK ON YOUR HUNT, AND ENJOY YOUR STAY HERE IN THE U.S.
Good Luck Felix!!
I believe there are two packages waiting there for you from me.
Good luck Felix!
Be careful and have a great time!
God bless,Mudd
Good Luck friend! Which bow are you carrying?
Keith,I don't carry any bow!since Santa is there, in Colorado and 15 bows are waiting for me.
It could be a Silvertip,Dye,Blacktail or a Type 2 TD signed by Fred or some other Super Kodiaks or Howatt or...I have 3 days to choose my partner.LOL.
Some guys have all the luck! Make sure you leave me a number where I can get a hold of you amigo! Turkey Cacciatore for everyone ! LOL have a great trip my friend,wish I was going.
Steve,prepare the fishng rods for August,we need some pics of world record walleye and pike.
All the best and good luck for youre trip, Felix!
Yep, sounds like Felix is in for a good time.
Felix with your beautiful collection of bear take downs I can't wait to see what you choose to take one with, good luck Larry.
Good luck and safe journeys
Geez Felix - now the pressure is really on to put you on some birds!! It's going to be fun.
Craig
Felix and Craig,
I was in NE this weekend at my nephews and we had a blast spotting and stalking birds. Didn't connect but got into shooting range multiple times. It is tough to draw on those things at close range without a blind. Have fun.
Best of luck to you guys :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Please take a lot a pix!!
Good luck to you Felix and have a safe trip.
doug77
Best of luck and safe journey! :thumbsup:
Sounds like a lot of fun. Good luck and keep us posted.
:thumbsup: Have fun and shoot well!!
Good luck Felix.
Don't be afraid to use that Big Horn you got from me. Should have plenty of turkey mojo in it.
Dan
Go get 'em Felix and Craig.
I had a blast with those Nebraska birds last fall.
Good luck. Hope it's a prosperous and safe journey for you.
Thought I would let everyone know that Felix scored on a Nebraska tom turkey this morning.
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More pics to follow.
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By the way, the turkey weighed 25 pounds - and we had part of it for dinner tonight, and it was delicious. Despite the fact that I did the cooking . . . Craig
Congrats Felix! Nice looking bird. :thumbsup:
Congratulations on a fine looking turkey! We'll be waiting for a story!
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
Fine success!
I'm so pumped about our season opener that while I was grocery shopping today and passed the frozen turkeys, I started having tremors.
Kroger's won't allow me to bring calls into the store anymore.
So happy for you. Great bird. Can't wait for the details.
Alright Felix!! Way to go. That's a great looking bird. Is that a Dye that I see in your hand?
Congrats Felix!! :thumbsup: Looks like you had a good guide :)
Very nice Felix. Great looking bow also. Hope you enjoyed our piece of dirt.
Way to go Felix.!!
Looks like you got the Dye tuned up and Bloody!
Way to go mi amico. Fine bird, say that bow looks like a Dale Dye, very nice.
Danny
Congrats Felix! That's not an easy task taking a turkey with a bow. Great job! :thumbsup: :clapper:
Congratulations! Can't wait to hear the story :campfire:
Congrats Felix.
doug77
Congrats! :clapper:
sweet bird congrats
are those red feathers from blood
i see the rest of them are white so i had to ask
Beautiful bird!Congrats.
Leland
Outstanding Felix! Could not happen to a nicer guy.
:clapper: :clapper:
Beautiful Felix! Congratulations :thumbsup:
Congrats Felix, that's a fine bird.
Thanks guy,I am posting with Craig Pc since I have problems to use mine.We had a lot of fun having some hens fighting against the decoys.Most turkeys were lonely and we didn't see any tom.The forecast was for a front coming so I took the first good chance I had to christen my brand new Dale Dye Medicine Point.one heck of a bow!I wanted to use one of the Bear TD I have and a new to me Type 2 B riser was waiting for me in Colorado but unfortunatly I am not been able to match the Rose Oak limbs to it(by the way not a fault of Brandon)Craig and I will be back with the story and some historical news from a today visit at one of our Icons.
SWEETTTTTTT
GOOOOD LUCKKK
Excellent....Congrats fellas!!! :clapper:
Very nice Felix!!
That is a fine looking bow you are carrying...I would expect no less!
:thumbsup:
Awesome, congrats on the bird!! Fine looking bow too!
Bravo Felix!!
Congrats!!
Sounded like a great time and can't wait for more details and pics.
Bowhunting at it`s best!!!
Congrats!
Travel across the globe...and it comes down to ONE arrow!!!
Just goes to show, EVERY shot counts.
Congrats again Felix...continued safe journey. :campfire:
Congrats Felix!
Nice to see everything came together for you, (except the Bear T/D). :D
Maybe next time you can come chase an Osceola!
Hey! Good for you Felix. Congrats!!!
SWEEEEEEET!!! Congrats, cannot wait for more of the story! Shawn
I knew it!,I knew it ! Turkey Cacciatore,way to go young feller,You'll have to tell me all about it next month when we meet.
Great job, looking forward to hearing more!
-Jay
Congats my friend great shooting....
Dave
Congratulations!! I will chasing eastern gobblers shortly and I hope that I am as lucky as you. :thumbsup:
Way to go Felix killing a longbeard with a bow is one heck of an accomplishment. :thumbsup: :notworthy:
Thursday I took Felix up to Dick & Carol Mauch's and from there traveled out to their Plum Creek Ranch - If you've read Bows on the Little Delta you will reconize the cabin from Glenn's travels to Nebraska.
Dick and Felix inside the Plum Creek Cabin
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Felix checking out the "guest's" signatures on the privacy curtains in the sleeping area
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Dick explaining the history of the cabin - was kind of a cold rainy day here in Nebraska.
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Dick has always said the 'spirit' of Fred has always been at the cabin . . .
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Can't get enough.....
:campfire:
That is quite a piece of histoy right there.
You are both very fortunate, and could't happen to a couple of nicer guys.!
Thanks - more to follow shortly. Felix is preparing authentic Italian dinner for us . . .
More pics . . . Yesterday Felix and I traveled to Omaha to see Wade Phillips' "Antique Archery Arsenal". We returned home this afternoon . . .
Wade showing Felix some of his collection.
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Viewing photos from the past . . .
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Felix holding one of the Kodiaks (he even picked up and held right hand bows!
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More archery history . . .
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Felix visiting with Ken Oberschulte from Aurora, Nebraska.
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Me, Felix, and Wade . . .
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Felix surrounded by Kodiaks! (Kind of like being in 'collectors Heaven!!!'
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Awesome!!!
Amazing pictures of traditional archery history! That cabin on Plum Creek has a lot of stories inside. Thanks for sharing!
Bernie Bjorklund
NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
Looks like Felix is in Hog Heaven...or should I say BEAR Heaven!
Congratulations on the Tom Felix, looks like a great trip! memorable.
What a trip! Thanks for sharing the pictures.
Thanks for sharing all the pics!!!
What a great trip!
Felix your a lucky man, thanks for taking us along.
Congrats of the bird! :jumper:
Great stuff guys, what a great trip!
-Jay
Awesome stuff! Congrats to all involved!
That is awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you everybody,I plan to come back with the story as i arrive home with more pics of the hunt and the great TGangers I meet along my journey as well as the ones I missed.
Safe travels home my friend!
Wow, what a trip. Good for you Felix. That is quite the trip.
Felix, looks like you had a grand time here and way to go on shooting a nice tom. May you have a safe journey home. Mark
Felix hope you liked NEBRASKA. It sure was a good time at Wades.Come on back when you get a chance.FROM FRANK OR BIGRISER ON TRADGANG
Just back home from my Intercontinental flight,tired like i had packed a moose out of the wilderness!I'll come to you on tomorrow.
Frank,I'll do and thanks for the mega Pepsi.
felix
Great bird Felix!! Congrats and glad you were able to have sucess your first time out.
Congrats on a fine hunt! :clapper:
I gotta admit Felix, I was hoping for some bezoar action when I read the title!
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This is my first turkey and I need to say thanks to a great TG member Craig Schoneberg that invited me and gave me his own experience. We had great time and shared more than just a hunt.
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I used a brand new Dale Dye Medicine point on this hunt 58"-55#.Broadhead was a Snuffer 125 with a GT 55/75 100grs insert and 125BH.
The first day we were able to hunt the afternoon,we saw few turkeys on our way to the hunting spot.We set the blind and we had a few hens passing by.Some red neck fagians were seen,but nothing really close.
The next morning at day brake we heard some turkeys gobbling around,but 2 deer were the first animal passing by.Later after some calling we saw a tom,but he kept going for something else.
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Not much later some hens started to come to the calls and looked to be very aggressive with the hen decoys but never bad againt the full strutt tom.
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More hen,they looked to be completely unaware of our presence.
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We had 5 decoys 3 hen and a jake plus a full strutting tom.
:clapper: Alright,Felix!Looks like you had a great trip.Looking forward to the rest of the story.
BIll
After a while a jake approched,but it maybe was scared by the tom decoy and it didn't come very close,so when he was 20-25 yards broadside I took my chance.The arrow went exactly where I wanted and passed through it.He made a little jump but didn't run away,just kept going with the hens.We waited for a while then we went for the arrow.It had some muscle blood on it but nothing to look fatal.I picked my spot a little too forward like I do for deer,but this have a different configuration and he just left me one of his primaries on the ground.
Later we had a tom passing by,but it was scared by something,maybe with the sun in a wrong position it was able to see in the blind?
Turkeys were gobbling around but nothing close come by for that day.
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Next morning we had a lottle of calling activity all around and it was still early morning when 2 hen come fast to the calls and to fight against our hen decoys.A young gobbler was behind and come to fight our jake.It was in the between the 2 shooting lanes I had and couldn't find for a while a shooting lane,but he was keeping kicking that poor decoy so I gave a arrow in the chest at the facing tom.He jumped in the air run 10 yards then he made a couple of circle and fell on the ground.Craig was really pleased because his outfitter job was succesful to his Italian friend,so was I for my first big bird.
Congrats,turkey down.
Did a Blacktail draw blood?
David,Blacktails were home,I had to pick up some other bows so I flew without bows,but on my way back I had 6 TDs 7 onepiece and 4 pair of limbs to take home.
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Part of the staff that Santa has left for me in Loveland,CO.
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Wow! What a ride!!!!
Great story and pictures.
You musta have been a whole lot better than I was...lol
I'm gonna write Santa a letter...lol
God bless,Mudd
Talk about a Merry Christmas! Wow! Is all this stuff u bought and picked up when you came to the states?
Great story on your hunt. Nice pics!
Keith,I collect all my buyings in Colorado because lot of guys are afraid to send oversea and i save a LOT of money and customs carrying them with me on the airplane.One time I was back with 25 bows.Not all of them are for me anyway I make some favors to some friends too.
Hey felix, send me some more detailed pics of your bows. Esp the Dale Dye and Schafers. Heck, all of them:)
Keith, Felix will have to get a bigger SD card for his camera if you want to see pics of all his bows. Congrats on the turkey Felix.
Great story, turkey and pictures from Nebraska. It looks like it might get tougher to pick a bow for the next hunt, maybe there is a Go To Bow for every species in the country; great approach. It was obviously a special time and trip. :thumbsup:
I'm glad you enjoyed your trip here. Thanks for sharing the pictures and story.