Happy Memorial Day (Last Day PA Horrah!)
05-26-2008, 07:52 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Allegany County Maryland
Posts: 1,977
RE: Happy Memorial Day (Last Day PA Horrah!)
Congrats!! Nice camo too
! I didnt order a facemask with my outfit, but looks like I am going to do so now! It really keeps the flow of the camo going!
Good Job, Matt is that your first???
! I didnt order a facemask with my outfit, but looks like I am going to do so now! It really keeps the flow of the camo going!Good Job, Matt is that your first???
05-26-2008, 08:03 PM
#23
Giant Nontypical
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Dover, PA USA
Posts: 5,497
RE: Happy Memorial Day (Last Day PA Horrah!)
Finally got home after another exciting extended weekend at Rob's place.....We were in the game Saturday and today even at such a late stage in the season here. Rob has had some difficulties with his local birds due to (of course , it's PA) pressure and trespassers. They've been pretty silent for a lot of the season.
They opened up a bit on Saturday and I just missed an opportunity at a nice Longbeard that skirted us at about 50 yards in some thick laurel.
Probably had 3-4 different birds gobbling?
After the longbeard skirted us with a hen a pack of 7 jakes slipped by as well.
I set up today on the ridge the birds came down saturday from the roost while Rob and his father in law hung back a couple hundred yards each forming a barrier at the base of the sidehill that the birds would have to get through. Rob had a longbeard gobbling on his end, hens between us, and the same group of 7 jakes from Saturday wanted to talk to me all morning long. After an hour long soft clucking conversation I finally got them to to come single file down the ridge to me and the decoys. Boy were those birds nervous and alert, tiptoeing the entire way dead silent for the last 50 yards.
With no longbeard in tow that I could see like Saturday and with it being down to the last couple hours of our season I decided to "thin the herd" a bit.
Got about 6 minutes of neat footage on my gun mounted Sony handicam too as I looked them over sneaking down the ridge. (although not your typical open field turkey DVD type stuff. This is big woods, sneaky thick cover type hunting)
The bird was pretty peculiar too........he seemed to be the largest bird of the group, and had a 5" beard, but he was missing alot of feather at the base of his neck between his shoulders as well as secondary tail feathers, and feather behind his wings. I don't know if he was picked on by the other jakes or beat up by a longbeard because this little guy had all his wing tips worn square from strutting just like a longbeard.
Also you can see he has an odd looking fan for a jake rather than just the center feathers of his fan being longer, a full 10 of his 18 tail feathers are long and the last 4 on each side are short. Its a neat looking fan.
Anyway thanks again Rob, appreciate yours and Jenny's hospitality more than you know.
No that's my 2nd spring bird after going 15 years without hunting them. I do think I remember now why I liked it once upon a time.It's REALLY a lot of fun, especially when you don't have other hunters breathing down your neck at every set up.
They opened up a bit on Saturday and I just missed an opportunity at a nice Longbeard that skirted us at about 50 yards in some thick laurel.
Probably had 3-4 different birds gobbling?
After the longbeard skirted us with a hen a pack of 7 jakes slipped by as well.
I set up today on the ridge the birds came down saturday from the roost while Rob and his father in law hung back a couple hundred yards each forming a barrier at the base of the sidehill that the birds would have to get through. Rob had a longbeard gobbling on his end, hens between us, and the same group of 7 jakes from Saturday wanted to talk to me all morning long. After an hour long soft clucking conversation I finally got them to to come single file down the ridge to me and the decoys. Boy were those birds nervous and alert, tiptoeing the entire way dead silent for the last 50 yards.
With no longbeard in tow that I could see like Saturday and with it being down to the last couple hours of our season I decided to "thin the herd" a bit.
Got about 6 minutes of neat footage on my gun mounted Sony handicam too as I looked them over sneaking down the ridge. (although not your typical open field turkey DVD type stuff. This is big woods, sneaky thick cover type hunting)
The bird was pretty peculiar too........he seemed to be the largest bird of the group, and had a 5" beard, but he was missing alot of feather at the base of his neck between his shoulders as well as secondary tail feathers, and feather behind his wings. I don't know if he was picked on by the other jakes or beat up by a longbeard because this little guy had all his wing tips worn square from strutting just like a longbeard.
Also you can see he has an odd looking fan for a jake rather than just the center feathers of his fan being longer, a full 10 of his 18 tail feathers are long and the last 4 on each side are short. Its a neat looking fan.
Anyway thanks again Rob, appreciate yours and Jenny's hospitality more than you know.
Good Job, Matt is that your first???
No that's my 2nd spring bird after going 15 years without hunting them. I do think I remember now why I liked it once upon a time.
It's REALLY a lot of fun, especially when you don't have other hunters breathing down your neck at every set up.
