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Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 13th, 2019, 3:17 pm
by Hobbes

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 13th, 2019, 3:27 pm
by Hobbes
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Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 13th, 2019, 4:00 pm
by BrowningGuy88
That’s awesome

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 13th, 2019, 4:09 pm
by MAK
OUTSTANDING!!!!! Beautiful birds and beautiful country congrats congrats congrats!!

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 13th, 2019, 7:32 pm
by soiltester
Yer' killin' me :banghead: :violent1:

Ya' got em' all penned up and fenced in :stir:

Congrats to both, on dandy toms :thumbup: :thumbup: :cheers:

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 13th, 2019, 7:37 pm
by spider316
Incredible start, congrats. Well deserved !

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 13th, 2019, 8:11 pm
by howl
Now that's livin' right! :thumbup:

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 13th, 2019, 9:54 pm
by timbrhuntr
I'll say !!

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 13th, 2019, 11:43 pm
by Hobbes
We decided to drive home instead of camping another night, so we spent the rest of the afternoon driving. We could have killed one more each, but I didn't want to use my general tag until I can hunt another area that requires the general tag and Boyd likes his bed. I'll probably take him out locally tomorrow evening.

Started the day without much action, not a peep from the roost. We called in a lonely hen that strutted for us. We tried another spot around 10 AM and noticed that there weren't any tire tracks in there from the morning. We got a distant response by 10:15. After confirming a direction, we went on a run down one ridge and up the next and crossed a rocky drainage in the bottom. "It" turned out to be "they", three Tom's. We didn't think they were coming after 20 minutes or so. Seemed like they went from 500 yards to 100 yards in an instant. Two of them fully committed, but the lucky one veered wide. Boyd pounded the first at 40 yards and I cleaned up on the second when he hesitated.

I don't typically use anything but a mouth call, but my brother bought me a personalized glass over glass call for my birthday. I used it until they committed and finished with a mouth call. We were both shooting 12s with 1 5/8 oz of 8.5s. Boyd likes my Vortex Venom setup.

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Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 14th, 2019, 3:07 am
by joey46
Great post and pictures as usual. I was expecting snow still to be in the area.

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 14th, 2019, 8:30 am
by Hobbes
joey46 wrote: April 14th, 2019, 3:07 am Great post and pictures as usual. I was expecting snow still to be in the area.
We drove to east side of stste to get out of snow. Still plenty in the mountains. Drove through this on the way
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Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 14th, 2019, 8:42 pm
by ncturkey
Awesome Start. Congratulations

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 14th, 2019, 8:58 pm
by Hognutz
Way to go, Hobbes. Nice pics, as always!

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 14th, 2019, 9:58 pm
by Hoobilly
Love your posts!!!

Btw what did you use to link the video to the post???!

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 14th, 2019, 11:09 pm
by Hobbes
hoobilly wrote: April 14th, 2019, 9:58 pm Love your posts!!!

Btw what did you use to link the video to the post???!
The YouTube button. Took me a couple tries. I had to read the info in the tech forum.

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 15th, 2019, 5:52 am
by Hoobilly
Hobbes wrote: April 14th, 2019, 11:09 pm
hoobilly wrote: April 14th, 2019, 9:58 pm Love your posts!!!

Btw what did you use to link the video to the post???!
The YouTube button. Took me a couple tries. I had to read the info in the tech forum.
I’ll have to re read it 😆

I’ve tried but have never bad the be open. Just a link

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 15th, 2019, 6:08 am
by GLS
Beautiful country and birds...

Re: Not a Bad Start

Posted: April 15th, 2019, 6:31 am
by gaswamp
excellent work and congrats....I am headed your way in a week and half....cant wait