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happygilmore
04-27-2008, 10:31 AM
great fun, took a shot with my bow @35yds and overshot! up comes the scatter gun and wham! Had another chance the day before with three toms and about 5 jakes walked within 40yds but I was waiting for them to come closer when a hen spooked. Much harder this year since they weren't talking at all. Nice spurs, 9 1/4 beard. All 10 of us got birds including 2 rookies.
One rookie took 2 birds:eek:, luckily one was the decoy I placed in the field next to camp and waited for someone to notice.:evil: I notice him scrambling to load a shotgun and ask him "what's up?" ... "there's a turkey in the field!!"... "B.S" I say.We grab out vid cameras and roll on, he sneaks up, (unfazed by the lack of movement)... boom..., encouragement from camp..."put another one in him" ...Boom... laughter drounds out the shotgun.:biggrin:

I'll link the youtube vid when I post it...

http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/data/501/t1.JPG (http://www.huntingbc.ca/photos/showphoto.php?photo=9053&limit=recent)

Dannybuoy
04-27-2008, 10:33 AM
Wow Congrats happy ... and great prank as well !

pmj
04-27-2008, 01:31 PM
Good hunting! Nice bird.

ohno
04-27-2008, 02:09 PM
Great story and prank.

We did that with a breasted out grouse carcass propped against a tree beside a trail. Buddy thought his 243 "cleaned" the grouse and didn't realize we were laughing at him until we explained the joke.

Poguebilt
04-27-2008, 02:27 PM
thats a great tom... funny joke too! might have to try that on a few that I know ;)

Krico
04-27-2008, 03:33 PM
Awesome bird, congrats8)

That prank sounds hilarious-can't wait for the video!!!

mark
04-27-2008, 07:10 PM
10 guys, 10 turks, wow thats pretty awesome. How long were you guys hunting for? Just a guess here but were you guys up the christian valley, I saw a huge camp of turkey hunters up there! (I mean guys hunting turkeys)

happygilmore
04-28-2008, 06:03 AM
We were there for a week. That wasn't us :razz::razz::razz:. We drove through C.L and around to Castlgar, even spent a day at Rock Creek, locals weren't to helpfull? They all hate the turks and want them dead but will not give you any clues where to go?

huntwriter
04-28-2008, 06:24 AM
Congratulations on a very fine mature specimen. In my opinion the Gould’s Turkey is one of the most beautiful colored and marked subspecies.

mark4
04-28-2008, 02:48 PM
You guy's cleaned up- how good of a memory that trip must be !! congratulations !!

rishu_pepper
04-28-2008, 03:07 PM
Great looking bird! Congrats on a successful hunt for all.

Can't wait for the youtube vid. That's some funny stuff, I should do the grouse thing to a friend of mine, who always "says" he wants to come hunt with us but usually just disappoints, a tire-kicker.

Nailgunslinger
04-28-2008, 03:23 PM
Beauty bird.:-D