Trad Hunting "Cold Turkey"

[Gary Logsdon]

The thermometer said "24 degrees" when I left the house at 4:30 this morning, however the little "temp gauge" I carry in my back pack revealed just how truly cold it was in "the hole", the name I gave the blind I built in a stand of river cane that lines the edge of a small slough. Gives new meaning to hunting "cold turkey".

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[varmint101]

Nice job!

[centaur]

Good job and nice pic!

[Whip]

Beautiful bird Gary, and fantastic photo!

[yellow bow]

   

[wapiti792]

You are a turkey killin MOchine my fellow Murray State grad  

Beautiful colors, beautiful mojo-laden bow, and great bird  

[cacciatore]

Well done Gary,that TT is building a solid Mojo on it!

[magnus]

Fantastic!!! Congratulations on a fine trophy. Save those wings.

[wooddamon1]

Way to go!

[Gary Logsdon]

Thanks Michael.  Hunting where there's a good number of "biggins" helps.  A little easier than the days when I was trying to figure out those LBL birds in west KY!

[Gary Logsdon]

I bought a special freezer a few years ago Matt so I could store wings and various other parts until I could take care of them properly.  I use wings for all kinds of things, from photo props to calling birds off the roost.

[D. Key]

Great bird.  You said it was 24 at home and really cold in the hole. You're dressed like it was 65 degrees.  I know us Southerners can't stand the cold now.

Congrats.

[Gary Logsdon]

Oh, I had a few layers under that wool shirt and pants Doug, HA! I was moving around setting up the tripod and actually getting pretty comfortable doing it. What you don't see is that brown plaid wool coat thrown over a nearby stump! Sometimes I think shooting your own photos is harder than arrowing the critter!

[Jim Boettcher]

Excellant photo Mr. Logsdon!

[Jim Boettcher]

Looks like a good size bird too.

[Jesse Minish]

[Gary Logsdon]

For those who are interested the beard was 10 3/4" with 1 3/16" spurs on each legging. Don't know what he weighed, but quite a bit less since he lost all of that breast meat to my freezer.

[magnus]

You did a great job on the photo as well.        

[maineac]

Turkeys are still a bugger for me with the bow.  Great shooting with both the bow and camera.

[Tater]

Nice shootin'!!

     Great Picture also.!