Team #6-"Cold Turkey" - Page 2

cnelk · #16 (**permalink**) 04-02-2008, 03:26 PM

skullclnr · #17 (**permalink**) 04-02-2008, 03:28 PM

wahooooooooooo! Its on!!!!!!!!

cnelk · #18 (**permalink**) 04-03-2008, 06:23 PM

We decided to come to the great state of Nebraska a few hours earlier than originally thought. We are leaving Colorado ~noon-thirty Friday, and we will be getting in the late afternoon scouting/hunt. Should have everything set up for the morning on Saturday!

SW Nebraska...Here we come!

cnelk · #19 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 09:25 PM

We are back and WOW did we have a great time!
We saw over 40 birds in a day and a half of hunting.

My son connected with his first turkey about 11am on Saturday morning.

We called in 3 hens and 2 jakes and he blasted a jake at 40yds.
Smoked him right there! I was so excited I dont even remember his gun going off!
He handled my old Winchester 20ga Model 1200 like a champ using 3in - #4 shot.

About an hour later I called in two big longbeards that flew across an old river channel to us. Gobbling was awesome! They came in right behind us gobbled REALLY close.
NOTE:
This is next part is a lesson learned...
I could not help but peek thru the side panel of the blind. There they were! 18yds! But they saw me! I found out a bit later that when I looked, I was actually silhouetted on the other side of the blind!

Later in the day a big old tom came prancing in to my skullclnr's setup.
He was not liking the jake decoy.
Skullclnr missed (shot over) mis-judged the distance.

This morning it was windy but we still saw a lot of birds. Skullclnr missed a tom AGAIN!
My son and I also called in 8 hens and a really nice longbeard. But they hung up at 60yds.

We also had two WT deer come 30 yds from the blind - that was cool!

Enjoy the pics - More to follow:

COLD TURKEY - TEAM 6 ( The Young Turkey Mafia)

WarPig · #20 (**permalink**) 04-06-2008, 11:10 PM

Cnelk, Sounds like you guys had a great time. Your boy got his first gobbler too! GREAT! Glad you guys had fun. Are you going to come back and try again?

cnelk · #21 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 07:33 AM

We sure want to try to come back!
Those $102 turkey tags make me want to try to get one.

**obert1** · #22 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 08:12 AM

Great pics, congrats to the boy on the bird. That is a great pic!

**Scott G.** · #23 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 10:11 AM

That is a priceless picture. Congrats!

skullclnr · #24 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 11:37 AM

Yeah we had a great time. It was great to see cnelks boy whack that bird, he had a smile on his face all weekend, and so did his proud papa!! We sure hunted hard, we sat in the blinds all day Sat and a lot of Sunday. Underestimated how sneaky the little things are, and how hard it is to hit one of em with a bow (I learned two hard lessons about judging distance with a bow). Hopefully we make it out again to try again....I am addicted.

cnelk · #25 (**permalink**) 04-07-2008, 11:58 AM

Since this is our first successful turkey hunt, we actually did not know how the proper way to take pics of a gobbler. So we just took alot!
We did the "fan" setting and we did this one below.

Is there a "correct" way to display a gobbler?

CK_BK1.jpg

cnelk · #26 (**permalink**) 04-09-2008, 01:55 PM

skullclnr:
We are going to have to get out to NE again and give these guys a run for OUR money!

cnelk · #27 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 06:13 PM

Made some more phone calls and got another place along the river-bottom to hunt.
Man, this is going to be fun!

WarPig · #28 (**permalink**) 04-10-2008, 09:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cnelk

Since this is our first successful turkey hunt, we actually did not know how the proper way to take pics of a gobbler. So we just took alot!
We did the "fan" setting and we did this one below.

Is there a "correct" way to display a gobbler?

Attachment 1118

CNELK, I think you did a good job with the pictures. The "fan" pose is a pretty standard one and is always good. A lot of guys do the one with the Tom over their shoulder or the "fan" with the wings spread out. I've also seen one with the bird kind of draped over a fallen tree too. I think it's good to get a little of the scenery in the background. I think it's good to be smiling in the picture too (which you guys definitely were). I don't know why guys like to try and look all tough and angry in their photos. One more thing I like to do is lay down on the ground so that the guy taking the photo is not looking down on the guy with the turkey.

Oh, The "Father and Son" picture (or father and daughter or two buddies etc) is always the best.

skullclnr · #29 (**permalink**) 04-11-2008, 10:28 AM

AMEN War Pig!! I hate the "I am to tough to smile for the Picture" picture. I also think the point about getting low on the ground when you take the picture is VERY important. If you have a little of the horizen in the picture I think it makes all the differene.

cnelk · #30 (**permalink**) 04-16-2008, 10:09 PM

Team 6 - Cold Turkey - is making plans for another 3 day hunt to hopefully put a couple more turkeys down.

Looks like its going to be the weekend of April 25 26 27th.