#2 Easter Sunday last minute longbeard

[catman529]

Made up for my pathetic miss earlier in the day.

Shot this bird, spitting and drumming to the gun at 25 yards

Called him in with this:

I will miss my tube call, but glad this improvised water bottle call worked. Also glad there was a dollar general down the road that had latex gloves.

Killed him on Williamsport WMA right at sunset, I was nervous he'd fly up to roost before coming into range.

Not going to tell any more story. Loads of video footage of the whole opening weekend. I'll have it up on youtube in a few days and will post here.

Once again I must thank the Lord for blessing me with this bird and another memorable hunt. Happy Easter y'all.

 

[deerhunter10]

Congrats catman! Sounds like you earned that one ! Good bird

 

[PinchPoint]

Glad things worked out for ya! Congrats man

 

[darn2ten]

Congrats on #2

 

[timberjack86]

Wow cat that's a great weekend! Congrats!!

 

[mathews338]

Congrats!

 

[Gravey]

That's improvising at it's best. Congrats!

 

[easy45]

Congrats

 

[FARMTOFIELD]

Good job Jonathan!

 

[Vermin93]

I hope you have audio of that call because I would really like to hear that thing in action and I bet I'm not the only one!

 

[Outdoor life]

You must be the MacGyver of turkey hunting LOL!!! Big time congrats for that call and getting the bird.

 

[catman529]

I hope you have audio of that call because I would really like to hear that thing in action and I bet I'm not the only one!

yes you can hear it in the video. Not bad sounding for a piece of water bottle. If you know how a tube call works then you can make one out if pretty much anything.

Ill be working on the video, will take some time, but ill get it up soon as I can. At the moment I am more concerned about sleeping a long time

 

[TNRino]

Sweet. Hope to see the video

 

[catman529]

You must be the MacGyver of turkey hunting LOL!!! Big time congrats for that call and getting the bird.

thanks man. Just obsessed with turkey hunting and not afraid to cover some ground too. covered a good bit of ground today, especially in the afternoon when there were 3 different gobblers I tried to set up on.

 

[catman529]

I just sifted through all the video I took today, deleted unwanted clips, and I have 7 GB of video from one whole day. Opening morning also has nearly as much, but I need to sift through it. These dang HD video files are huge. But the end product is worth the used up disk space, and I'm glad I have an external hard drive. It's also been worth carrying a tripod and a 400 pound shotgun all over the woods... extra gear to carry is not so pleasant but it's paid off. Maybe I should at least get a strap for my shotgun. lol

 

[Phil1979]

Congrats.

 

[spitndrum]

attaboy

 

[LA man]

good job catman

 

[Bone Collector]

Good Job!

 

[HuntingDicksonDTC]

good job catman, helluva weekend for sure. love the improvising after loosing your other call & coming back to get one.

 

[ROOKIE2323]

congrats

 

[HuntnMoon]

I read your posts quite often, this deer season you posted a video of a great buck that you walked up on I believe... you got some great stories. Serious. to make a call like that and kill 2 birds in one day is awesome. Congrats. I wouldnt mind getting some lessons.Also I believe you said you are relatively new and you have killed 15 birds, Thats amazing. keep up the good work.

 

[catman529]

I read your posts quite often, this deer season you posted a video of a great buck that you walked up on I believe... you got some great stories. Serious. to make a call like that and kill 2 birds in one day is awesome. Congrats. I wouldnt mind getting some lessons.Also I believe you said you are relatively new and you have killed 15 birds, Thats amazing. keep up the good work.

thank you, I have had some "beginners luck" and also learned some valuable stuff from this web site, and gained some experience in the woods too. Just go at it and try to be open minded when things aren't working as planned... It would have been too easy to quit for the day after missing that bird, and I was surrounded by TWRA stocked fishing lakes and had a rod, tackle and box of nightcrawlers in the truck, but I decided to stick with it and chase every gobble I heard and finally it paid off right at sunset.

 

[HuntnMoon]

Congrats again, I got my first bird last year and spend as much time as possible in the woods learning. Good luck the rest of the year, look forward to hearin you on here.

 

[catman529]

Thanks, best of luck to you. Can't wait to see what you kill this spring.

 

[plinker22]

You made a call out of what... seriously??? You are truly the MacGyver of TnTurkey. Huge congrats.

I eagerly wait the videos too.

 

[catman529]

You made a call out of what... seriously??? You are truly the MacGyver of TnTurkey. Huge congrats.

I eagerly wait the videos too.

thanks man. A lot of things can make turkey sounds, and I knew a water bottle would work from experimenting in the past. Video is mostly done, need to tweak it tonight after work, render it, upload it to youtube, and it will be ready. It's like 26 minutes long, not sure if that is too long for some people. it covers both days of hunting.