Sandhills hooker

[spaightlabs]

Found this guy in the hills yesterday morning.  He was with 1 other tom, 3 jakes and a half dozen hens.  He busted us standing in the open about 15 minutes after first light when we were trying to relocate since we hadn't heard anything on the roost.  He jogged off with his gang in tow, but it looked like the hill the went over would hook around in our direction, so we went back to our original position.


Put the hen and half strut jake out, and 15 minutes later they walked into the open about 500 yards out.  Gave a few yelps and he yelped back and went into strut.  He'd strut 20 yards and stop.  I'd yelp, he'd fan out, yelp back and strut another 20 yards.  He tried to gobble a couple times but couldn't pull it off.  Kept this up until he was whooping the jakes butt at 14 yards.



Saw an absolutely spectacular all white tom about 20 minutes later on an adjacent property. Big body, very tall and a 10 inch black paint brush, otherwise not a speck of black/brown on him.  May make another run up to see if we can get him to play.

[DirtNap647]

congrats

[redarrow]

Beautiful bird.  Good luck with whitey.

[hookedspur]

Nice !!

[beagler]

Very Nice!

[renegade19]

Looks like he had some monster spurs! Congrats!

[tomstopper]

Nice bird. Congrats....

[El Pavo Grande]

Congrats on a great hunt!!!  Probably so old, the joker couldn't gobble anymore.

[coyote1]

Congrats, great bird!

[boomer]

Congrats!!

[trkycaller]

congrats!!

[Gooserbat]

That's a fine Ol' Bird.  Congrats1

[WyoHunter]

Congrats! Nice spurs!

[Onpoint]

Congrats. Gotta love them old birds

[Gold Spur]

Congrats, awesome bird..