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Great way to cap off the season, back later with a lot more...
:campfire: Bring it!!! Can't wait to read this one :)
Is tha a wood shaft with added weight before the broadhead?
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Might be a forest fire!!
You "guys" are a turkey killing machine.
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Can't wait to hear the story :campfire:
QuoteOriginally posted by TIM B:
Is tha a wood shaft with added weight before the broadhead?
looks like a carbon footed with aluminum.
Can't wait to get the rest of the story.
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Nice job Curt. Thats the way to end a season.I was expecting to see a "carp"message.Awsome my friend!
This is gonna be good!
C'mon Curt! Holy cow man! You're such a tease dude! ;) :thumbsup: It's all cool though.
Dang!!! :wavey: :campfire:
Well after a long tiring weekend, and having one last day to hunt...I just had to go out for at least a short morning hunt.
The turkey hunting has really slowed in the last week, and it's gotten real hot and buggy.
But hey...I wasn't about to give up. I always thought it would be awful sweet to kill a bird on the very last day of the season. I've come close over the years, but have never pulled it off.
Just as the sky was starting to gray up, I set my DB Darkhorse and two hen dekes up. I had decided on my drive, I would go with only 2 hens and no jake decoy. Good stratagy for late in the season...
My hopes were slightly dashed when not a single gobble was heard as it got lighter, and lighter....nothing!
I'd called only a couple times in the last hour just to see if I could get something interested. But then, a good hour after daylight I thought I heard a couple clucks about 100yds. away up the hill from me in the orchard. Then a few seconds later a short, chokey-sounding gobble...I immediately thought...Jake!
The last day of the season is no time to be picky, and besides I had Chris' VPA 1 1/4" Terminator that I used a couple weeks ago on my first bird cleaned up, sharpened, and on the string ready to go again....game on!
I clucked a few times on my slate call, and just when I didn't think anything was gonna answer....I heard the short,chokey-sounding gobble again....now it knew exactly where I was.
Ten minutes or so later, I called again, but got no response...hmmm...
Another 10 minutes pass...quiet...
Then when I was thinking that maybe this just wasn't meant to be came the same gobble....but only about 50 yds. away just around the corner of the woodline above me!
Seconds later I saw a head bobbing through the weeds. I knew in seconds he would see my dekes as they were right out in open in short grass.
As he came clear of the high weeds he stopped to look down and this is what he saw...
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I purred softly...and he started down the hill slowly....I grabbed my bow out of my bowholder...
Then 2 more jakes came into view and quickly caught up to the first bird. That made them all start to walk faster to see who could get to the sweet hens first.
The last bird cam in with attitude, kinda head-up, and half strutt...pretty cool posture!
I had one hen at about 12yds, and one at about 8yds....I was curious to see which they'd go for...or maybe split up and go for both....
All 3 went to my old delta hen deke, the further out deke, at 12yds...
The last bird, the one with attitude, ended up being the closest and came clear, quartering toward me...I picked a spot further up front on his body to compensate for the angle, drew back my Randy Morin Banshee longbow, and gave Chris' broadhead flight!
I remember seeing the arrow, the same arrow as two weeks ago with two orange feathers and one white, dissappear right where I was looking....
Then in a blurr, fly out the backside of the bird all red....perfect!
In an explosion of 3 birds they were off, but my bird was gimping out on one leg, with his wings out in an awkward, unnatural looking position....I knew he wasn't going very far....
He made it about 30yds....
His two buddies couldn't figure out what the heck had happened...
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View to a kill....
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after 5minutes they finally walked off and I got out of the blind...
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Good job Bud.Congrats on the last day Bird. I`ve never got one the last day even when I gun hunted.Outstanding!RC
At the decoy I found the first evidence of the hit...
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Painted red!
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As you can see in this pic, he dragged the arrow with him (string tracker)as he tried to run off...
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Chris' 1 1/4" VPA Terminator was now responsible for two turkeys. Before I took this picture I looked to the sky to say a few words...
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Awesome stuff Curt....congratulations on another fine kill! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
They don't call you Guru for nothing! Great job and pics!
Maybe it possibly would have felt a little sweeter had this been a big pld longbeard....but I seriously doubt it.The last day, Chris' broadhead, a good shot, watched him go down...I wouldn't change a thing!
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"The" broadhead, still in perfect shape, ready to go again this fall!
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We did it again buddy.....
Great hunt and tribute Curt. Congrats!!!
Awesome!!! Congrats and thanks for sharing.
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Well done. Nice pics
Way to go Curt, thats a great second bird and even sweeter being the last day and having Chris with ya. :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
I wouldn't worry about that beard. The trophy part of a turkey lies just beneath the skin and fries up golden brown.
Way cool man! As always, great pics and story. Congrats!
Nice Bro !
Great Goin Curt :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Bravo guru. There is nothing like chasing turkeys.
Curt my friend,
You sure have some good MOJO!
Great hunt and story Curt, thanks for sharing!!
Wat to go Curt! :clapper:
Nice job Curt
Cool stuff. Love the looks of those orchards too.
Good job and thank you!
Great job! :campfire:
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Good stuff :)
If I were a turkey I sure wouldn't want to live in NY!
Congrats again on a fine bird Curt!
Great story bro!! The mojo just keeps piling up on that BH. Congrats Joe
You wouldn't be so successful if you weren't so lucky.... and you wouldn't be so lucky if you didn't work so hard at it.
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Congratulations buddy!! We'll have to team up on some birds this fall in Kansas.
great stuff Curt, thanks for sharing
Guru....... :notworthy:
Congrats Curt!
Bisch
Congrats! Great pics
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Good Job Curt! :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Congrats Curt!
great job!!!
Awesome Curt
Way to GO :thumbsup:
I still want to know what kind of arrow your flingin and what kind of footing is in front of that broadhead with the mojo!!
Thank you everyone...I have defininately not been hunting alone...
Tim, It's a Beman ICS Hunter carbon arrow with a 1" alum. footing on the end. On top of that is the velcro I put on the end to attach my tracker string to...
Congrat! Nice bird!
Nice shooting Curt. DB
Curt is the Turkey Hunting Guru this year! Good job Curt. Great stuff.
Thanx again fellas :notworthy:
A couple pix of the "weapons" used on the hunt...
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CONGRATS CURT!!!
Wow Curt. That was some great story tellin right there. Awesome pics. Awesome last day.
Congratulations to you.
Love that last pic with the string strung out too. Thats a huntin bow set-up right there. :thumbsup: :notworthy:
Congrats to a successful hunt.
Good job Curt!!!!!! :thumbsup:
Curt congrats, like that bird hunting. You did good, awesome.
Awesome job!! Thanks for sharing!!
Good work.