Joe_Singer
Regular
- Location
- Princeton, Ont
Well for my first fall hunt I didnt think I did too bad.
This turkey it my biggest turkey for me so far as this year was my first for hunting, back in May I got myself 2 jakes with 4" beards and this guy has a 10.5" with 1" 1/4 spurs.
I got him as I was on my way back to the truck to head back home for some food till all of a sudden to my left of where my truck is parked I see about 15 to 20 turkey, so I ran around into the corn field and slowly made my way closer to them. I set myself up just a row behind the corn close to a path that runs into the bush and thats where I figured they were heading as I always find their tracks in the mud. I had myself in a nice spot as they started to get closer and I was able to get a good look at what bird I was going to take my shot at. I finally had one that I wanted in range and lined up, I pulled the trigger and had myself one dead bird.
When I was cleaning him up for the freezer I noticed something odd, there was some shot in the meat and not from my shot someone else as the shot was smaller and lead as I use a copper coated lead shot size 5 and most of the shot was healed over. From what it looked like someone did not know what they were doing, just had a real bad shot, or bad shot pattern.
Well anyways here is a couple pics.
This turkey it my biggest turkey for me so far as this year was my first for hunting, back in May I got myself 2 jakes with 4" beards and this guy has a 10.5" with 1" 1/4 spurs.
I got him as I was on my way back to the truck to head back home for some food till all of a sudden to my left of where my truck is parked I see about 15 to 20 turkey, so I ran around into the corn field and slowly made my way closer to them. I set myself up just a row behind the corn close to a path that runs into the bush and thats where I figured they were heading as I always find their tracks in the mud. I had myself in a nice spot as they started to get closer and I was able to get a good look at what bird I was going to take my shot at. I finally had one that I wanted in range and lined up, I pulled the trigger and had myself one dead bird.
When I was cleaning him up for the freezer I noticed something odd, there was some shot in the meat and not from my shot someone else as the shot was smaller and lead as I use a copper coated lead shot size 5 and most of the shot was healed over. From what it looked like someone did not know what they were doing, just had a real bad shot, or bad shot pattern.
Well anyways here is a couple pics.
