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Title: Tagged out on turkeys today!
Post by: dhaverstick on September 22, 2012, 09:11:00 PM
Wow, what a week! After umpteen years of bowhunting I finally killed a turkey last Sunday; the second day of Missouri's season. Today, only a week in, I killed my second turkey with a bow. I should probably go buy a lottery ticket!
 (http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q240/dhaverstick/2012%20Hunting%20Photos/SecondTurkeySmall_zps4989090f.jpg)
Last night I fried up the breast of the first bird and served it up with mashed taters, gravy, brocolli, and homemade biscuits. You ain't gonna get much better vittles than that!
 (http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q240/dhaverstick/2012%20Hunting%20Photos/FriedTurkey_zps3a0d3230.jpg)
Missouri's fall firearms turkey season starts on October 1st so I guess I could try to get two more birds in that season with my bow. But I just had a new flintlock 12 bore made that is just begging to be broken in then so I'll probably use it. But you never know....

Darren
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Post by: Josh Perdue on September 22, 2012, 09:13:00 PM
congrats, wish i lived closer that looks good
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Post by: limbolt on September 22, 2012, 09:55:00 PM
Now you've gone and made me hungry,looks great!
 Congrats   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Post by: RLA on September 23, 2012, 12:31:00 AM
That's really cool, Congrats! Now got buy that lotto ticket
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Post by: Michigan Mark on September 23, 2012, 01:00:00 AM
Good for you on the harvest and the good food. How many tags they allow you in Missouri?
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Post by: bruinman on September 23, 2012, 01:41:00 AM
Congrats. Sounds like you had some great hunting.
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Post by: Anointed Archer on September 23, 2012, 07:41:00 AM
Excellent job   :clapper:
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Post by: Cyclic-Rivers on September 23, 2012, 07:45:00 AM
Great job. 2 birds in one fall, that's excellent.

food looks good too.
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Post by: magnus on September 23, 2012, 07:54:00 AM
Great accomplishment. Congratulations!
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Post by: LONGSTYKES on September 23, 2012, 07:55:00 AM
Congrats, very good looking meal. Two birds awesome.
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Post by: sou-pawbowhunter on September 23, 2012, 08:05:00 AM
Congratulations, two turkeys in one season is quite an accomplishment.
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Post by: Hoyt on September 23, 2012, 08:09:00 AM
Good Shoot'n! Had turkeys around me just about every hunt last deer season and never got to draw the bow.
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Post by: Mudd on September 23, 2012, 08:48:00 AM
Darren you rock brother!

Congratulations!

God bless,Mudd

PS: That's a meal fit for a king ~ BTW...my name means king...lol
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Post by: 3Feathers on September 23, 2012, 08:53:00 AM
Wow 2 birds thats awsome,I still need to get my first.Great job thanks for sharing.
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Post by: wooddamon1 on September 23, 2012, 09:03:00 AM
:thumbsup:     :thumbsup:
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Post by: Big Ed on September 23, 2012, 09:15:00 AM
Wow, two with a stick in a week, Congrats!!
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Post by: BMN on September 23, 2012, 09:41:00 AM
Nice work!    :thumbsup:
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Post by: kennym on September 23, 2012, 10:03:00 AM
Wow Darren, you a machine!!   :clapper:    :clapper:  

I'd like to take 2 in a year, but then Linn Co. would be out of birds! LOL
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Post by: Terry Green on September 23, 2012, 10:06:00 AM
:bigsmyl:     :bigsmyl:    :bigsmyl:
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Post by: dhaverstick on September 23, 2012, 10:15:00 AM
Southern Missouri has been blessed with an exceptional spring turkey hatch which is one of the very few good things to come out of our drought. Because of living in a "target-rich" environment, it was statistically probable for me to kill a bird with a bow. Oh yeah, and luck had a large part to do with it too.

Darren

PS. Kenny, you can come to Greene or Shannon county and I can loan you a couple turkeys.
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Post by: Kc kreger on September 23, 2012, 10:45:00 AM
:clapper:  Congratulations!    :clapper:

K.C.  <><
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Post by: JPE on September 23, 2012, 11:38:00 AM
Darren;    Longbows and flintlocks. You are the man. Congratulations !!!!!!  Backstraps next.
                 Jim Pyles
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Post by: swp on September 23, 2012, 12:17:00 PM
Wait a minute, I didn't get no phone call with a dinner invite. What's up with that??????   :dunno:    :dunno:    :dunno:
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Post by: Bernie B. on September 23, 2012, 03:36:00 PM
That's quite an accomplishment!  Congratulations on your two turkeys!  Great looking meal too!

Bernie Bjorklund

NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin
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Post by: macbow on September 23, 2012, 05:08:00 PM
Way to go Darren. Keep up the good string,of kills.
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Post by: on September 23, 2012, 05:54:00 PM
way to go on the birds,   :thumbsup:  thats the hard part. now get a big ol missouri mule of a buck and it will be a season to remember.....congratts!   :thumbsup:
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Post by: Friend on September 23, 2012, 07:48:00 PM
A great accomplishment.

Please share the specifics of your set-up?
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Post by: Brianlocal3 on September 23, 2012, 07:52:00 PM
Congrats and great shooting. Turks are wily birds, you did good
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Post by: Eric Sprick on September 23, 2012, 09:30:00 PM
Outstanding!

Eric
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Post by: dhaverstick on September 23, 2012, 10:09:00 PM
Probably the main reason I have never bow-killed a turkey before now is that I generally don't hunt for them. And the main reason I don't hunt for them is because I have had too many folks tell me that to better my chance of success I needed to hunt in a blind - I hate hunting in blinds!

However...I wasn't seeing any deer in my little patch of woods this year but I was seeing a herd of turkeys. So I broke down, put up a pop-up blind, and presto - killed two birds in a week. Everything I've heard is true, turkeys pay no attention to blinds. I had birds all around me and my shot distance on both hens was 10 yards at the most.

The bow I used is a two-piece takedown Thunderstick Mag. I made the arrows out of ash and tipped them with 200 grain Ace Super Express broadheads.

Darren
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Post by: rastaman on September 23, 2012, 10:56:00 PM
Now that looks like some good eating! Way to go sir!   :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:
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Post by: Thumper Dunker on September 23, 2012, 11:16:00 PM
Way to go . That looks good.  :thumbsup: