Jesse's Hunting & Outdoors Photo Gallery

Just as day was breaking I had a gobbler across the field on the other tree line just gobbling away. Then 3 hens flew down from my left and started across the field in fron of me. I began calling with short clucks, luckily the hens ignored my calling and kept pushing toward the gobbles. Then the hens bagan clucking, one of them had to be an older bird because she had a very raspy cluck. Off to my right down the tree line a gobbler started in. I began to call, and the hens were getting rather noisy so I began to get really agressive in my calling and purrs. The gobbler to the right was closing the distance, as I heard his gobbles getting closer. Then through the trees I could see him coming pretty fast, gobbling and strutt'n and drumm'n. I raised my 870 to my shoulder and waited. My camcorder going the whole time. He came in really fast, and drummed on one side of the decoys, then moved to the jakes side and jumped up high. As he jumped, and his head was high, my 870 rang out the familliar sudden death sound through the barrel. He dropped immediately and just flopped. What a great hunt! And all on video. I will post the video on as soon as I get it edited. It's harder to edit a video than shoot a gobbler, anyway it takes longer. EDIT: I just got back from the taxidermist, he says "did you know that your bird has two beards?" I says nope, "well it does", he says, and he weiged 20.5 pounds, the one beard is 10.75 and the other is 6". Get a laugh at the way I Walk, my right leg fell asleep.