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2004 Bow Season - December 1
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1 - Not Again!
Morning - At
6:15am the temperature was 29 and we had a heavy frost. (Picture below
taken at first good picture light.) In the distance I heard wild turkeys
before and after daylight.
Nothing stirred for the
next hour and it warmed up enough to melt the frost. Turkey whistles alerted
me and I picked up my camera and caught the first ones in sight. It was
a mixed flock of hens, young toms and jakes.
 
After setting my camera
down I picked up my bow and zeroed my bowsight in on a tom that was 15
yards close, and shot through the mesh. Missed again.
The birds all checked out.
My brain kicked into high
gear. I had to figure out what was different between now and my practice
shots last night. Eventually, I had an idea that made sense. In practice
I was set up so I shot through the mesh, perpendicular, right straight
through it.
But here, because the turkeys
move around I had to shoot through the mesh at an angle. So I picked out
a skinny wooded fence post that was about 15 yards and the angle I had
shot earlier. A complete miss. Then, still thinkin', I opened the blades
to the expandable broadhead.
The blades clicked into place.
NIce. My shot smacked the narrow fence post and glanced into the woods.
Now we're talking turkey.
Twenty minutes later two
yearling does slipped under the fence and drank from the small pool of
water by the blind. Then they walked away. When they stopped below wild
turkeys were yelping in the area.
 
A doe wake up to my extreme
left. There are black acorns all over under the trees in this little clump
of oaks and cedars I have my blind in. Another doe joined it and they browsed
around. Actually I would have liked to shoot a nice doe but turkey yelps
were in the area and I felt like they might have the Point on their list
of places to go.
 
After the does left my watch
read 9:13. I decided to wait until 9:45 before leaving. At 9:44 got the
itch to gather up my stuff so I would be ready to leave in one minute.
But I didn't, after all, if you have a plan you should work it.
Turkey whistles, soft ones,
close.
I canceled my 9:45 evacuation.
Shortly afterward another group of wild turkeys walked up.
A gobbler appeared on the
opposite side of the road and checked out the other turkeys. I zoomed in
on him. He walked into the group and came to the water pool. (In the pIcture
below the hen was drinking water.) I put up my camera and got my bow.
When the tom started drinking
a smaller tom pecked him. They see sawed back and forth with a few pecks
and stopped, standing tall, staring at one another.
I drew.
The shot was close, but about
a 30 degree angle to the mesh. I aimed for the stuff and toughed my release
trigger.
 
The bird fell in a heap,
right at the water's edge.
All the other wild turkeys
didn't spook, they looked around momentarily and settled down. Suddenly
the downed gobbler flapped it's wings loudly and wound up a foot on the
other side of the fence 4 yards from the water. The other birds went to
the far side of the road and after waiting awhile they all then walked
away.
 
Next I crossed the fence
with my gear, set up a tripod and took pictures the way I like it, right
where it all happened. behind me, through the fence, you can see the water
(this is the small watering hole that I made) and the green blind made
by Double Bull Archery.
First Wild Turkey of
the Fall season. It came to drink the water in the picture. I was in the
Double Bull blind in the background. This area is named "The Point".
EQUIPMENT
USED:
The INNERLOC
EXP expandable broadhead got complete penetration on this wild
turkey and dropped in in it's tracks. When he flopped he bounced 4 yards.
The cut is wide and 3 blades gives this broadhead real killing power. Since
this type of expandable NOT is supposed to be shot through camo mesh I
opened the blades and, even at an extreme angle, it flew straight. And
the cut in the mesh was perfect, too. I really like this broadhead and
being able to shoot it with the blades open adds another dimension to my
bowhunting from a blind.
At 60 lb. my BOWTECH
Patriot put the hammer down today and it was all over in a fraction
of a second after the release. BowTech bows are built right for close shots.
There are NO faint squeaks or creaks when you draw that can spook game.
To me, BowTech means it draws without making noise.
The blind was green and made
by Double Bull Archery,
makers of the best ground blinds a bowhunter can use. They have revolutionized
wild turkey hunting with a bow. Believe me, with 2 dozen wild turkey eyes
around me I would not have gotten a shot today. It is tall enough, wide
enough and has enough shooting windows to get 'er done.
Arrows can't fall out of
the Shoot Out arrow rest from Golden
Key Futura. That is a definite plus in a blind because even gentle
contact between your arrow tip and the blind's fabric can pop it out of
the rest. And this arrow rest is the only true "SILENT" arrow rest I've
ever shot. (I put moleskin on it's buttons and it does not make a sound.)
ALSO: The hole
in the blue Venom
peep sight is absolutely the perfect size for bowhunting. The release
was the new TEAM PRIMOS release from Jim
Fletcher Archery. With Fine-Line
Archery's Hunter bowquiver I lean my bow against the wall upright,
and it is always ready, Scent Killer
bar soap, shampoo and spray kept the deer I saw today from smelling me.
The Bowsight was the Dusk Devil from Montana
Black Gold, it's bright pins are much appreciated Arrows
were Eastern C2 camo
carbon shafts fletched with the carbon flething tool from Arizona
EZ-Fletch using bright yellow Gateway
Feathers and crested with yellow tiger striped EZY-Eye
Arrow Wraps.
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