Ready to leave for turkey

[cacciatore]

Just back home from my Intercontinental flight,tired like i had packed a moose out of the wilderness!I'll come to you on tomorrow.
Frank,I'll do and thanks for the mega Pepsi.
felix

[Over&Under]

Great bird Felix!!  Congrats and glad you were able to have sucess your first time out.
Congrats on a fine hunt!  

[Steve H.]

I gotta admit Felix, I was hoping for some bezoar action when I read the title!

[cacciatore]

This is my first turkey and I need to say thanks to a great TG member Craig Schoneberg that invited me and gave me his own experience. We had great time and shared more than just a hunt.

[cacciatore]

I used a brand new Dale Dye Medicine point on this hunt 58"-55#.Broadhead was a Snuffer 125 with a GT 55/75 100grs insert and 125BH.
The first day we were able to hunt the afternoon,we saw few turkeys on our way to the hunting spot.We set the blind and we had a few hens passing by.Some red neck fagians were seen,but nothing really close.
The next morning at day brake we heard some turkeys gobbling around,but 2 deer were the first animal passing by.Later after some calling we saw a tom,but he kept going for something else.

[cacciatore]

Not much later some hens started to come to the calls and looked to be very aggressive with the hen decoys but never bad againt the full strutt tom.

[cacciatore]

More hen,they looked to be completely unaware of our presence.

[cacciatore]

We had 5 decoys 3 hen and a jake plus a full strutting tom.

[zipper bowss]

 Alright,Felix!Looks like you had a great trip.Looking forward to the rest of the story.
BIll

[cacciatore]

After a while a jake approched,but it maybe was scared by the tom decoy and it didn't come very close,so when he was 20-25 yards broadside I took my chance.The arrow went exactly where I wanted and passed through it.He made a little jump but didn't run away,just kept going with the hens.We waited for a while then we went for the arrow.It had some muscle blood on it but nothing to look fatal.I picked my spot a little too forward like I do for deer,but this have a different configuration and he just left me one of his primaries on the ground.

[cacciatore]

Later we had a tom passing by,but it was scared by something,maybe with the sun in a wrong position it was able to see in the blind?
Turkeys were gobbling around but nothing close come by for that day.

[cacciatore]

Next morning we had a lottle of calling activity all around and it was still early morning when 2 hen come fast to the calls and to fight against our hen decoys.A young gobbler was behind and come to fight our jake.It was in the between the 2 shooting lanes I had and couldn't find for a while a shooting lane,but he was keeping kicking that poor decoy so I gave a arrow in the chest at the facing tom.He jumped in the air run 10 yards then he made a couple of circle and fell on the ground.Craig was really pleased because his outfitter job was succesful to his Italian friend,so was I for my first big bird.

[GRINCH]

Congrats,turkey down.

[snag]

Did a Blacktail draw blood?

[cacciatore]

David,Blacktails were home,I had to pick up some other bows so I flew without bows,but on my way back I had 6 TDs 7 onepiece and 4 pair of limbs to take home.

[cacciatore]

Part of the staff that Santa has left for me in Loveland,CO.

[cacciatore]

[Mudd]

Wow! What a ride!!!!

Great story and pictures.

You musta have been a whole lot better than I was...lol

I'm gonna write Santa a letter...lol

God bless,Mudd

[Keith Zimmerman]

Talk about a Merry Christmas!  Wow!  Is all this stuff u bought and picked up when you came to the states?

Great story on your hunt.  Nice pics!

[cacciatore]

Keith,I collect all my buyings in Colorado because lot of guys are afraid to send oversea and i save a LOT of money and customs carrying them with me on the airplane.One time I was back with 25 bows.Not all of them are for me anyway I make some favors to some friends too.