Heath's Turkey Season

Here are a few pictures from this years turkey season. I was fortunate to have some luck this year. I made 7 hunts and harvested 5 birds. A good friend of mine was with me on one hunt in Texas and one hunt in Louisiana where we doubled up, as you will see a couple of pic's with both our birds. My cousin has developed a new turkey load for me, which was absolute murder on these birds, he calls them the "Hammer Load", which is quite fitting for what it does to those poor birds. I shot a duplex 6X7 and a straight 7 hevi shot load most of the season. I missed one bird this year at 65 yards, but I blamed it on the 40 mph cross wind that I had while hunting in Texas and a slight misjudgement of distance.

Sorry for the picture being cut off, but both these birds sported 11 and 10.5 inch beards.

We put the ole slip move on these two boys. They had fifteen hens with them and stayed in full strut for over an hour. We finally got between them and where they were going. After a 1...2....BOOM, we had two nice Rio's on the ground.

This is my buddy Nick, who took part in the double.

I thought I had this bird figured out, but you know how turkeys are. I set up where he had walked the previous two days, and for some reason he decided he needed to be where I was the other two days. I snuck around and called the hen to me and luckily he was still in strut behind her. My hunt in Texas was over with my tag on a nice 3 yr old.

I'll never forget this hunt. As old, wise birds always do, he slipped in on me. I had this bird struttin at 4 steps from me, thank goodness for good camoflouge. I couldn't move or blink, but I stayed calm and waited on him to enter the food plot. He went straight for my decoys and I pulled the trigger on him at about 38 yrds.