Unluckiest Gobbler in Mississippi this Morning

[ishiwannabe]

That is impressive! Congrats!

[Hawkeye]

"Unluckiest gobbler in Mississippi this morning....."

Yep, because he ran into one... Joey Buchanan!!!

Way to practice what you teach, my friend!              

Daryl

[swp]

Nice shootin'

[Wannabe1]

[John Dill]

Joey

Great job good buddy! Nothing like it all comin together!!!! Got a package in the mail! Keep an eye out for a full trad gang report on it. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[alligatordond]

Just goes to show that anyone can kill an old eastern    :p  

You need to come down and show me how to put the whammy on an Osceola!

[Jerry Wald]

     

JB

[ductape]

Major Kudos!!! Nice set up.

[Ontario Longbow]

Priceless,, Congrats on a great bird,,, All the best,, Frank

[Bjorn]

Nice job! Congrats!!

[Steve H.]

Poor little tweety bird didn't stand a chance!

[Hud]

Nice bird, thats getting the job done. What's next?

[sj_lutz]

Awesome....CONGRATS!!    

[kasey]

great

[rushlush]

Congrats, thanks for sharing!

[hardwaymike]

Congrats! Who makes the chair?

[owlbait]

Great job Joey! Rent on my Wooden Hen call has just gone WAY up  

[StanM]

That's awesome!  We open up on the 15th, and threads like this have me itching to go.

[maineac]

Very nice.  I like the trail in the dewy grass.  I would also be interested in your bow blind.

[joebuck]

Thanks guys for congrats. There have been several questions about my gear i'll try to address here.

Ghillie Suit.....i use a 3-D BugTamer and sew Ghillie replacement jute on my arms and head and neck. It's a light jacket and bug proof. It has and big hood that drapes over my head which i fold back to my cap bill then use a camo vail.

My chair....old friend of mine david waldrop designed this. Biggie and myself still use ours after 15 years. I made mine double as pack frame also. It leans against the tree and i cut to perfect height so my bow limb will clear the ground. i camo it up with same jute as my bug tamer and bow blind. I basically drape it down under my seat to take the horizontal lines of chair out.

Bow blind.....this is my second year to try the hoop style. Some of ya'll may remember Tippit and I hamming  it up last year using a Xmas wreath?! Well i found this bow blind and like a good redneck i bought it new and have almost fixed it!. It hides my draw when i draw..I have added 2 extra mess screen and sewed the ghillie jute on it to make it look 3-d. I sprayed the jute with glue to hold it in place on the screen becasue i do not want it moving when i move my bow or blowing in the wind...i have drawn on 4 out 5 birds this year within 15 yards undetected. Last year i drew on 2 and got busted because they can see through the net which i fixed obviuosly this year.......i'm still tweaking it and quite honestly i'm thinking about making a limited number of these next year to sell if they work?!  right now i'm very pleased....i need several more kills and i have 2 other buddies using a similiar one that compound hunt.we'll see

My decoy.......one thing i do different than most i just discovered is that on my Jake fan, i'll take the secondary and butt feathers and hot melt them on the fan front and back just exactly like a real gobbler..the slightest breeze catches these fine feathers and even though the decoy does not move the feathers do and i always point the butt fan towards incoming bird.........

decoy stake......i juse a fiberglass galss pole with a bolt epoxied in the top...i slide the decoy over the bolt(5/16) and decoy will not fall off the stake when gobbler comes in and fights it. he may knock the fan off but this stkae is a little deeper in the ground and will not come off the stake so in short....he stays longer and fights the decoy trying to knock it down..this helped me friday..it he popped this decoy with his spurs 5 different times..3 times after i shot him!  i was able to knock another arrow and could have shot him again..

sorry to be so long winded......bowhunting turkeys is such a passion for me ....i need medicine!!...hey good luck out there everyone and do not be so hard on yourself if you fail sometimes...this stuff is kind of hard but take time to enjoy the woods and your friends in the spring woods...thats the real treat!.....well a gobbler flopping around on an arrow is too!!!!