1st Season Tag Filled

  • BradPitt
    Cawford Cty, WI
    Posts: 32
    April 19, 2009 at 2:02 am #210875

    Got him Friday Morning, April 17. 22.5 lbs, 9.5 inch Double Beard! 1″ spurs. He woke me from my nap!

    protourbaits
    stillwater, MN
    Posts: 2466
    April 19, 2009 at 2:59 am #50221

    congrats!! nice bird

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    April 19, 2009 at 3:05 am #50222

    congrats on a nice tom

    Joel Nelson
    Moderator
    Southeast MN
    Posts: 3137
    April 19, 2009 at 3:06 am #50224

    Great bird! Very cool on the double beard. Don’t see many of those!

    Joel

    jeff_hansen
    Posts: 475
    April 19, 2009 at 3:51 am #50225

    nice job on the double beard…

    coppertop
    Central MN
    Posts: 2853
    April 19, 2009 at 4:55 pm #50227

    Congrats on a nice bird! I’d like to see the pooch retrieve that one!

    mrcrappie
    mn Dodge co.
    Posts: 1133
    April 20, 2009 at 12:23 am #50238

    Congrats on filling yoyr tag. Nice bird!!

    DugMer
    Posts: 241
    April 20, 2009 at 12:30 am #50240

    Nice looking bird. Congrats.

    mpearson
    Chippewa Falls, WI
    Posts: 4338
    April 20, 2009 at 2:19 am #50244

    congrats on a successful hunt!!

    firegetter911
    Pope County, MN
    Posts: 54
    April 20, 2009 at 9:01 am #50245

    Nice Job!! Great bird

    robstenger
    Northern Twin Cities, MN
    Posts: 11374
    April 20, 2009 at 12:52 pm #50246

    Congrats!

    TeamBurbot
    Posts: 324
    April 20, 2009 at 1:21 pm #50249

    Nice bird. Did you take the dog with you?

    BradPitt
    Cawford Cty, WI
    Posts: 32
    April 21, 2009 at 2:04 am #50298

    nope, he just loves getting his picture taken with dead stuff!

    Brad Juaire
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 6101
    April 21, 2009 at 2:08 pm #50334

    Congratulations BradPItt! So what’s the story behind this hunt other than you were sleeping aganinst your tree and a gobble woke you up? We want to hear about the hunt!

    BradPitt
    Cawford Cty, WI
    Posts: 32
    April 25, 2009 at 1:56 am #50578

    Well-here it goes-The previous day the normal roost held one bird. I wasn’t able to hunt on Wednesday, so Thursday was opening day for me. I took my son along, and we were tickled that we had a bird on the roost about 75 yds from the blind. He appeared to be the only bird around, and just as the birds did last year-he flew to the valley. There was no getting in front of him, and he appeared to be on a mission to cross the valley and go out of bounds. We hunted the rest of the day, and never heard so much as a gobble. The following morning, my son decided to sleep in. I started in the valley in hopes of catching one coming off the roost just as the pattern suggested. Guess what-all the birds were out of bounds, across the road-and they were crazy loud that morning. I moved to an opening, and hoped to bring them across the road. Nothing doing on this morning.
    I pulled stakes, and went back to the ATV. I decided to head up the ridge to check on my blind. I hunt near the property line of 2 other preoperties that abutt the property I can hunt. It appears to be the only solid Thunderchicken spot on that chunk of ground. I hit the box call with a few yelps and heard a few gobbles just about out of earshot. I thought, what the heck, I’ll give it a try, so I parked the ATV, and walked to the blind. Did a few purrs, yelps etc, and heard the same distant gobbles. The spring sun was warming the blind nicely, and my eyes became heavy, and off to dreamland I went. A short time later the old spit and drum woke me, follwoed by a thunderous gobble. A couple more taps of the box call kept him coming until he ran into some #5 shot.

    Brad Juaire
    Maple Grove, MN
    Posts: 6101
    April 25, 2009 at 3:06 am #50581

    Great story! To be woken up hearing spitting and drumming followed by two gobbles must have been a real treat!

    lick
    Posts: 6443
    April 25, 2009 at 12:41 pm #50586

    nice good thing your a light sleeper

    abster71
    crawford county WI
    Posts: 817
    April 25, 2009 at 8:54 pm #50597

    nice one I’ll have to try that sleeping thing

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