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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 05:20 am |
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Our good friend Bethe joined Michelle and I for the last weekend of turkey season. We always hunt a mixed bag when Bethe is here, this time it was turkeys, hogs and a little predator calling. The first evening we called in the first pups of the season, 7 little coyote pups that looked to be 2-3 months old amazing how young they learn to come to the call. We moved on to try and locate a gobbler, but none would play. Before we could even try calling at the next place we heard hogs fighting and quickly switched gears. We put the stalk on the hogs, Michelle shot the first one followed immediately by Bethe who then handed me the riffle so I could take a shot at one as well. We had 3 hogs down.
The next evening we tried for gobblers again at a new place. We got one to gobble right away but he would move further away with each gobble. We hiked a couple of miles trying to get in front of him before Bethe was able to put the smack down on him. He was a nice bird with a 9.75 inch beard and 1.25 inch spurs weighing 22 pounds. The next morning we called in a pair of gobblers and decided to try for a double. We counted and fired both birds dropped, but before we could get ourselves together Bethe’s bird was up and running we followed quickly never getting another shot at him. So we returned to my bird who was also gone! We where able to blood trail him about 90 yards and found him in some brush. I’ve never had that happen before. Being the last day of turkey season we decided to try an area near a roost and hopefully catch a nice bird coming in to roost. We never heard a gobble, but we did spot a huge hog crossing a field about a 1/4 mile away and put the stalk on him. He eventually turned our way Bethe steadied the Icon on my Bog Pods and put the smack down on him. He was a nice 300 plus pound boar. The sun set without a peep out of a gobbler.
We checked a near by field for hogs after dark and spotted a couple of nice hogs. Michelle and I put the stalk on them. Michelle shot hers first and I got on a runner taking him down with the Icon. I have never seen so many hogs in one spot, there was easily a hundred hogs running in every direction!
The last day I had some business to take care of before any hunting. We made 2 mid day stands the first one was dry. I didn’t have much hope with temps in the 80’s, 1pm and the wind blowing 20-40 mph, but Bethe wanted to try once more before she had to head back to PA. At the 8 minute mark I spotted a coyote slipping in from our down wind side. It had an odd look to it, almost like a hyena. I had to get Bethe to turn almost all the way to her left for a shot. I woofed, the coyote stopped and Bethe put it down right there. Upon inspection we discovered that this coyote had no tail, a first for me. The exit was pretty nasty so we had to decorate with some purdy flowers! This ended Bethe’s hunting trip and as always she was a pleasure to hunt with.
Michelle's hog
My hog
Bethe's gobbler with a shed antler I found
My gobbler
Bethe's big boar
My little boar
Bethe's bobtailed coyote
the tail
the stand
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 11:53 am |
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Nice hunt.sounds like everyone had alot of fun.Congradulations.
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Posted: Wed May 14th, 2008 05:11 pm |
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| Awsome, just awsome. I'm jealous. Sounds like Bethe had another great hunt this year. Congrats to all of y'all.
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Posted: Thu May 15th, 2008 12:42 pm |
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| Sounds like alot of fun was had by all.
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Posted: Sat May 17th, 2008 12:20 am |
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What a day sounded like a good hunt - nice shed hell of a brow tine on that one.
Hows your wife? hope all is good
Rick
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Posted: Sat May 17th, 2008 02:53 am |
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pretty nice shed, I found it about 30 minutes before Bethe killed her turkey.
Michelle is doing much better, but still has a long ways to go to be normal for her.
thanks for asking.
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Posted: Sat May 17th, 2008 01:37 pm |
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| Thanks for sharing that with us, the pictures are great.
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Posted: Tue May 27th, 2008 12:55 pm |
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| I love the pictures and story!
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