Osage Roost
Turkey Call Paradise => From the Hunter's Vest => Topic started by: shad309 on January 31, 2011, 06:43:46 PM
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I came home from work this evening and there was this large flat package on my porch covered in snow & ice. I knocked off what I could then brought it in the house and put it over a vent to melt the ice. After that was done I proceeded to "unwrap" this awesome gift. I'm sure glad I sharpened my knife because I think ole Mr Hay used half a roll of duct tape on this thing ROTFLMBO ROTFLMBO ROTFLMBO
Thank you Mark for this sweet addition to my tricks in the woods!!!! I can't wait to give her a try RkLu
I added one of Mark's brass trumpets to the photo, I think they go great together ;)
(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5051/5405698615_6ca11e695b_b.jpg)
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That is awesome!
Mike
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Fine combination for sure!! Congrats!! Roc *up* *up*
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Nice wing.
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That ole "turkey man" is always fiddling with something that has to do with the birds. Nice one there Shad I know I love mine.
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The wing looks nice.
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The wing looks nice.
RkLu
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8)
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That wing and trumpet look real good. I like the leather rap on the wing. Mark did a nice job for you on those! *up*
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Congrats! Nice job on both!!
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Good combo. there Mark did a good job on them as always.
Jon *cheers*
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*up*
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Sorry about all that tape , Shad . I've seen enough film footage from some news clips to know that a lot of this stuff gets handled rough .
I was comparing your wing to mine , which has a few years on it and the quills are not nearly as big as the ones in yours .Your wing makes so much better sound than mine . So , I'm still able to learn in spite of my ole age .
Thanks gentlemen for your comments.
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Mark,
The wing is a thing of beauty (my wife may not agree...) ;D
The sound this puts out blew my mind, I didn't think it would be that loud. I took it outside last night in the snow, wind, & freezing rain just to see. My neighbor was in his backyard about 35 yards away and came around front to see what was flapping. He thought maybe a hawk or owl had caught something in front of his house. RkLu
Just giving you crap about the tape *cheers* It makes a nice storage box too
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You need him to make yer another one, then you can flap right up there with em and take their photo on the roost!! ROTFLMBO
Nice job Mark and Congrats!!
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The gobbler that wing came from was roosting alone the last time he roosted . His local competition and no doubt the dominant bird were roosted across a wide shallow holler from the lonesome bird . The boss and a few jakes were gobbling hard on the roost . I got into my set up and waited for them to pitch out . All went quiet and I made a faint series of yelps on a scratchbox . Shortly after that I made some more on another call that at this moment I can't recall which one it was . The dominant bird was now gobbling in fury again and had evidently intimidated the youngsters because there was nothing to be heard from them . He came about halfway from his roost tree to my position , which put him about 100-125 yards from me . I could not see him but could tell by his non-stop gobbling that he was moving back and forth on a low gulley ridge . About this time I used a wing to rake and scratch . Right after that I heard heavy wingbeats from up the ridge which I sat on . This bird hadn't made one peep . Now all my calls were on the ground and I was determined to wait silently . The gobbling bird was still gobbling good . Then I caught movement to my left . Here comes this gobbler . Feathers folded tight and head high , sneakin' 'n' lookin'. The gobbling bird was still gobbling when the sneaker bird gave up the ghost . It was twelve or fifteen yards , again my memory fails me . Suppose I could check my journal *peep*.
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Cool story Mark, reminds me of one time I had my son sitting about 40 yards in front of me. He was about 12, so I was calling for him. He had 4 toms, at least one strutter come in directly in front of him, but couldn't get a shot due to some bushes in his way. I caught movement to my left, and it was a nice tom working in towards the other birds. He had come in behind me and was circling left towards the birds my son was watching. When the other birds saw this gobbler, they started running,, away from my son, and he thought they had somehow busted him. He never saw the gobbler, apparently the dominant bird as it came in behind him and on his left flank,his attention was on the birds he could see. He stood up to walk back to me, and the bird flew, finally he saw it,lol. We both learned something that day!
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Sweet!!! The story makes this that much better RkLu
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Blackfalcon , I've been known to do just what your son did ,,,all by my lonesome ,,more than once too. *lol*