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Offline Shadetree Callers

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Kicked off a great season in Kentucky !
« on: May 14, 2013, 12:10:42 PM »
I started my season in KY this year again and shared some great times with great friends . I took along my good friend Ed Patton from NY and we had a blast chasing birds . We both tagged nice Toms in the first few days despite some difficulties along the way . Ed shot his bird on opening day at high noon due to persistance and confidence in his spot . He used two boxcalls I made for him out of poplar . Both in my stepside design . The shortbox is topped with sugar maple from Maryland and the longbox has a maple lid and did most of the work on this gobbler . Ed's gobbler weighed in at 22 lbs and sported an 10 '' beard and 1'' spurs . I tagged my first tom on the third day of our hunt after putting on a very long maneuver to get ahead of two strutters locked up with hens. While I was soft calling to the toms, a hen came in yelping from 100 yds away and stood 10 feet from me . I let her take over the calling and my gobbler strutted into view at 30 yds and took a face full of #5 Hevi's . I used a wormy butternut fat bottom girl along with a Tom-2-Timer glass and padauk call from my good buddy Gregg Guthridge . The striker is made from ipe and was a gift from another great friend from WV , Scott Martin , son of Peck Martin.  My bird had a 10.5'' beard 1'' spurs and weighed in at 23.5 lbs. Not a bad start to what turned into a great season , so far!



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Re: Kicked off a great season in Kentucky !
« Reply #1 on: May 14, 2013, 01:03:53 PM »
Congrats!  Fine hunt, nice pictures too!

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Re: Kicked off a great season in Kentucky !
« Reply #2 on: May 14, 2013, 01:20:52 PM »
Cungrats. y'all had a great hunt , nice birds and pics.

Jon
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Offline Silverspur

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Re: Kicked off a great season in Kentucky !
« Reply #3 on: May 14, 2013, 02:20:16 PM »
Congrats Bob on some good times and fine turkey hunting!
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Offline oldschoolboxcalls

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Re: Kicked off a great season in Kentucky !
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2013, 04:28:00 PM »
Way to go  *up* sounds like you guys had a great time. It's always a little more special when you have to throw in a little woodsman ship to out fox the turkeys instead of just having them come straight in. Great pics and awesome looking calls. *cheers*
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Offline MadYelper

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Re: Kicked off a great season in Kentucky !
« Reply #5 on: May 14, 2013, 08:19:24 PM »
Congrats on 2 fine birds and a memorable hunt!  *up*
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Re: Kicked off a great season in Kentucky !
« Reply #6 on: May 15, 2013, 06:29:27 AM »
Congrats on a great year Bob.
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Offline AlabamaDave

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Re: Kicked off a great season in Kentucky !
« Reply #7 on: May 15, 2013, 10:11:30 AM »
Congrats Bob!
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Re: Kicked off a great season in Kentucky !
« Reply #8 on: May 15, 2013, 10:13:13 AM »
Nice work there Shady  ;D
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