Virginia rain bird.

[Vaturkeyhntr]

4-15-14
This morning turned out to be a good one even though the rain was pretty heavy at times. I set up on a field and actually sat in a blind (can't stand hunting out of them), but with the forecast calling for heavy rains I chose to stay dry. Well the weather man was correct and the rains came soon after first light, it actually got so bad I zipped up all the windows and sat there wondering what I was doing. A little after 9:00 the skies started to get brighter and the rain slowed a bit to where I gave out a few soft calls on the trumpet and gobbled on the haint to sound like some turkeys in the field. After about 5 minutes a hen came to the edge of the field and checked out my DSD hen and jake. As I was reaching for my gun incase she had company I looked back in her direction and the gobbler was running straight towards my jake in half strut. He made it to the decoy and began to beat up on him. I was able to get my gun out the window and had to wait for him to stop the beat down so I wouldn't shoot my decoy, he eventually stretched his neck up high and was ready to start pecking again and I let loose. He never flopped, Longbeard 3 1/2 #6's at 25 yards is pretty devastating!!!

20 1/2 lbs, 10 1/2 inch beard, inch spurs

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[Gooserbat]

Well Done!

[captin_hook]

 

[darn2ten]

Congrats on the bird! I'm with you on the blind thing, don't like hunting out of them at all.

[tomstopper]

Nice. Congrats.

[cuppednlocked]

Dry is a good thing.  Congrats.

[DirtNap647]

Congrats

[vaturkey]

Congrats ! Great Gobbler ! 

[beagler]

Nice!

[steveo]

Way to go!!!  Blinds are nice when the sky's open up, funny now I look back to when younger and would sit in a downpour. Now the pop up is in the truck for the days they call for rain... Guess i may be smarter or have gone soft but hey dry is nice and they work!, congrats on the bird he is a nice one.

[letinmfly]

Congrats!!

[shark]

nice

[slamman]

very nice

[JVA54]

Congrats!!

[gobbler777]

Yup ... no need to get wet. Congrats.