Opening day was a crazy one. My set up was in a bean field that I own that sits surrounded by small wood lots, each which had at least one bird talking. The tom I ended up killing came out in front of me at over 200 yards. He almost never broke strut for almost 1 1/2 hours and rarely went more than a minute without gobbling. For some reason he was brave enough to square off with a deer, yet would not approach the hens or jake in the field, nor come to the decoys. As the morning progressed, he finally got to about 80 yards from me and I thought I might have a chance, when a train pulled up on my neighboring set of tracks. The train ran all the birds out of the field and into my woods. After 10 minutes or so, the train left and I decided to just wait them out hoping that if he stepped back out of the woods a fresh look at the field might get him to change his mood and head for the dekes. About 20 minutes went by and I heard something from behind and left of the blind. I looked out and he was full strut and heading right to the dekes only 20 yards off my left shoulder. The rest was history. He just couldn't resist that DSD jake decoy, like almost every other tom that has seen that decoy the past few years. That was the end to him. One lighting strike from the Ninja in the blind and it was over at 9 yards. A Magnus Bullhead almost took his head OFF.
21 1/2#, 10 1/4" beard, and 7/8" spurs.
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJKeYAjmE0I
Ghost Maker sent another to his grave. Thanks EdJ!
21 1/2#, 10 1/4" beard, and 7/8" spurs.
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJKeYAjmE0I
Ghost Maker sent another to his grave. Thanks EdJ!
