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Hunting on
Ranger Creek Ranch in Texas |
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Ed, Emory and I after a good afternoon of Rio hunting. We killed 5 birds on this very blessed Sunday. We have here 3 mature birds and one jake. Ed killed a big bird and a jake (big bird pictured below) and Emory and I doubled up on two big birds (seen below). |
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Ed and Triple-bearded Rio--the biggest bird killed on the hunt. This bird had a 10 inch beard and 1 and 1/8 inch spurs. This was one of two birds Ed killed in an evening hunt. |
Me and my first Rio. This was a nice gobbler with an 8 inch beard and 3/4 inch spurs. Lance and I roosted him the evening before I killed him. I was the fortunate one to get him. |
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Rio Jake I killed on the third day of our hunt. It had a 6 inch beard and 1/2 inch spurs. I shot this bird for a mature bird--iIt appeared to have a full fan when I shot it. Doesn't look like jakes back in Arkansas! |
Lance got his bird on the last day of the hunt. He was snake-bit in every conceivable way (bird comes up behind you, from wrong side, bird run off by intruder, etc.), until this last, but glorious day. |
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| Emory and the two big gobblers we killed on the afternoon of the third day of our hunt. Both had 9 inch beards and sported 1 inch spurs. It was a perfect hunt shared by a great friend with whom I have hunted turkeys for nearly 20 years. | |
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Hunting on
Tiny Bell Plantation |
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This is the only big bird I killed in Georgia in 2002. My good friend George (in picture with me) put me on the birds. Now, that is a good friend! Ed (same Ed pictured in Texas hunt) and I logged some 75 hours of hunting the week I was in Georgia. I should have killed a least one other longbeard--things don't always go as planned. I had 6 other longbeards in range at one time or another but had no good shot at any of the six, so I took no shot. That's turkey hunting! |
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