Two Kings

[Setterman]

Opening day for me started off dang quiet. One bird was lighting it up roughly 100 miles away while the mountain side I was on was silent. I was hunting with one of my long time cohorts so we formulated a plan. We'd ease out to a point which allows us to hear the entire area and just wait one out silenty (napping) until he revealed his location.

Right before we reached our nap spot I made a series of calls, nothing too aggressive just enough to check the area. Zero response. We had about 50 yards to go to the spot and while crunching through dry leaves I barely caught a single cluck down the mountain. With the woods so open we sat down right there as it was hard to pinpoint the location. I made another call and got zero response. After a few minutes I swore I picked up a spit down below us. Another call revealed silence again. However I definitely heard a spit. With that I cut and was greeted with a booming gobble. In a matter of minutes the deafening sound of drumming was creeping closer, then feet in leaves. After another few minutes the woods below at 40 yards began to fill with turkeys, 20 or so hens and 5 strutters. When they crossed the 30 yard line I gave the kill em command and we rolled the two lead strutters. Massive birds body wise and each were probably 22 ish pounds and both had matching 1 1/8" spurs with 10 " beards.

 

[REN]

Atta boy! I still wanna take your offer up one of these days to come chase a mountain bird

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Congrats


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[Mike Belt]

Double your pleasure, double your fun. Congrats!

 

[deerfever]

Congrats on the Double!

 

[JCDEERMAN]

Great birds! Congrats!

 

[cbhunter]

Well done, congrats!


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[thirdwilliam]

conrats

 

[Spurhunter]

You never know what's right over the hill. Great story and hunt!

 

[PalsPal]

Wow man, great hunt. Hard to believe that all of those birds were that quiet.

I bet that was a rush when the army suddenly appeared!

 

[TreyB]

Nice!

 

[Shanman]

Great hunt, congratulations.

 

[Roost 1]

Yes sir....

 

[Gravey]

That'll work anytime. Congrats!!!

 

[megalomaniac]

Nice, congrats! Were you within earshot of where they roosted and they didnt gobble on roost? Or were they out of earshot? I can't imagine 5 Tom's in a wad wouldn't gobble once on roost.

Seems like birds are well behind this year where I'm at... it's feast or famine with large flocks that havent finished breaking up. I've only managed to locate 1 bird on all my other farms since this morning. But another of my farms devoid of any turkeys has a group of 30 1 mile down the road. They need to split up fast and a couple need to come my way!

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[Setterman]

Nice, congrats! Were you within earshot of where they roosted and they didnt gobble on roost? Or were they out of earshot? I can't imagine 5 Tom's in a wad wouldn't gobble once on roost.

Seems like birds are well behind this year where I'm at... it's feast or famine with large flocks that havent finished breaking up. I've only managed to locate 1 bird on all my other farms since this morning. But another of my farms devoid of any turkeys has a group of 30 1 mile down the road. They need to split up fast and a couple need to come my way!

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I'd say we were within a few hundred yards of them and I am still in shock none of them gobbled. It was a nice morning. Numbers seem way down in general considering the silent two days we've had.

 

[spoon]

Outstanding

 

[bobbuck]

Nice, congrats! Were you within earshot of where they roosted and they didnt gobble on roost? Or were they out of earshot? I can't imagine 5 Tom's in a wad wouldn't gobble once on roost.

Seems like birds are well behind this year where I'm at... it's feast or famine with large flocks that havent finished breaking up. I've only managed to locate 1 bird on all my other farms since this morning. But another of my farms devoid of any turkeys has a group of 30 1 mile down the road. They need to split up fast and a couple need to come my way!

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I'd say we were within a few hundred yards of them and I am still in shock none of them gobbled. It was a nice morning. Numbers seem way down in general considering the silent two days we've had.

Congrats!

It's funny you think numbers are way down after killing two birds out of five in the group just because they were not gobbling.

 

[Acorn]

Great birds, Congrats to both of you.

 

[Setterman]

Nice, congrats! Were you within earshot of where they roosted and they didnt gobble on roost? Or were they out of earshot? I can't imagine 5 Tom's in a wad wouldn't gobble once on roost.

Seems like birds are well behind this year where I'm at... it's feast or famine with large flocks that havent finished breaking up. I've only managed to locate 1 bird on all my other farms since this morning. But another of my farms devoid of any turkeys has a group of 30 1 mile down the road. They need to split up fast and a couple need to come my way!

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I'd say we were within a few hundred yards of them and I am still in shock none of them gobbled. It was a nice morning. Numbers seem way down in general considering the silent two days we've had.

Congrats!

It's funny you think numbers are way down after killing two birds out of five in the group just because they were not gobbling.

I know it's seems weird, but this area I've hunted for 15 years. It's not the silence it's tbe lack of tracks, sign etc. 6 years ago there'd be 5 groups like this and because of that there'd be gobbling somewhere close which would set off others. I don't know how to sum it up, but I just know there's not nearly as many birds in that area.