My 2011 MN bird

[A. Felix]

hello all,  I'd like to say that i just found this forum and it seems to be full of great info.  heres a summery of my hunt this year so far.


this year was the most difficult in a long time.  saw lots of hens but no strutters and the gobblers were totally quiet.
last week i helped my cousin take his 2 boys out hunting.  i figured it would take some pressure off him and let me scout to see what the birds were doing(my season was the fallowing weekend)  we passed on a jake or 2 but never even saw a longbeard.
this weekend (Friday morning) i went to the only gobbling bird i heard last week and set up over looking a huge cut cornfield.  i had 2 jakes gobble their way in to 15ft around 7am.  at the same time a flock of birds popped out on the opposite side of the field (300+yds). there were 2 longbeards with several hens. the jakes headed towards the flock and they all went back into the woods.  i never got a shot but now i knew their home address.
sat. morning i slipped in before dark and set up roughly 200yds from the roost tree.  the bird was so fired up i didn't need to call to locate him as he was sounding off every minute or so up on the roost.  i made my first flydown call at 5:45 and the bird was dead by 6:30.  it felt like i was in a hunting video.  i heard him fly down with his hens.  he popped out into the field strutting and drumming all the way (covering 100yds) with his hens cackling and got pounded at 30yds.  it was planned and executed perfectly.  it ended up being my biggest bird yet. 23lbs 12.5" beard and 1 1/8" spurs.  Ive decided to put him on the wall.

his brother is still out there.  I'm thinking of finding a friend to bring down there and try to whack him too.  I think there's surplus tags left.

[turkey slayer]

Great bird congrats!

[M,Yingling]

Nice ,,congrats

[surehuntsalot]

congrats to you

[njdevilsb]

Welcome aboard.  Congrats on a good bird.

[Hognutz]

Congrats on a stud of a bird..Welcome to the O.G... Mike

[cannonball]

Congrats!

[Rio Fan]

Nice looking bird, congrats!

[A. Felix]

wow i'm amazed at how quickly this forum moves.  thanks for all the possative comments.  keep the Q & C coming!

[WyoHunter]

Congrats on your nice gobbler! 

[Wrangler95]

 


Very nice gobbler,congrats!!

[Todd1700]

Very nice bird. Congrats!!

[bowhunter84]

congrats and 

[Basser69]

Congrats on the whopper of a bird and 

[Timmer]

Congrats from a fellow Minnesotan!  My MN hunt went well too, got a career top 3 bird.