TX was a blast as usual, Pop and I got 5 birds total.
I started on a small wheat field that’s usually a pretty good spot, but nothing was around. Tried a couple more spots with no luck, so headed to the camp. Drove around back to glass a big field and as I crested the hill, I spotted two lone toms, so I eased the truck back below the crest, drove back down the hill, grabbed gear and headed twds them. I sat on a fence row just before the crest and started calling. It wasn’t long and I heard faint gobbles, which steadily got closer with a little sweet talk. Those rascals decided to circle around me and came right up behind me at 15yds raising cane. I played with them for a bit, but they were not going to cross the thick fence line where I was. I eased around and could see their fans over a dirt berm and decided to risk it and stood up. The first one that cleared the berm got a face full of NP lead #7 at 20yds. The second tom hauled butt, so I cut and got him to stop for a shot.
Bird one was 17lbs with a 8-3/4”bd and 1”sp.
Bird two was 18lbs with a double beard and 15/16”sp. One beard was 9-1/4” and the other was 3-5/8”.
Dad texted me around 9 saying he’d gotten two nice toms, one had spurs 1-1/4”. He hunted a big wheat field along a creek bottom and heard several on the roost, but most had a pile of hens. The two he shot came in together and he was able to cut them both.
Dad’s bird one was 20.5lb, 9-3/8”bd, and 1-1/4”so.
Dad’s bird two was 20.25lb, 8-3/16”bd, and 15/16”sp.
That eve we got on some birds in another creek bottom and just when they were about 40yds out a dang horse came over and boogered them. We then went back to the big field Dad hunted that morn and he told me a big group of birds with one tom had crossed the north end and dropped off in the creek bottom, so I headed down in the bottom and sat under a cedar on the edge of a pretty meadow. I wasn’t there 15min and a hen started talking to me. Before long I had her coming and a whole wad of birds came out in the open. About that time a tom fired off and came out strutting his stuff. There were 6 hens, 4 jakes, and the big big guy all about 25yds or so. When he got to 20yds I let him have it. I’ll be danged if that rascal didn’t have a spur on one leg, and just a nub on the other. He had a thick 8-3/4” bd and was pretty heavy for a Rio. When cleaning him I found some healed over Hevi shot from previous seasons. The 1-5/8oz #9s at 20 caused a little swelling lol. He was 22lbs with a 8-3/4”bd.
Texas Rios...
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Good looking birds WTG
I was not his father but he was my son,,MAK IV, 10-15-1993 - 4-22-2007
"Rest in Peace my Little Buddy"
"Rest in Peace my Little Buddy"
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Awesome,Outfitter??
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Nice birds. Nice pictures. Congrats.
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Thanks guys!
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I have to get down to Texas and hunt. Them are some pretty gobblers. Looks like lead still works
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Awesome!!! That is some beautiful gobblers!!! Enjoy make those memories with your dad!!! Congrats
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Thanks fellas!
I can't believe a little ole lead #7 killed a bird stone dead
I can't believe a little ole lead #7 killed a bird stone dead
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You wear those TX birds out every year - congrats again!
I've always found it enjoyable to end the season with a Rio hunt.
I've always found it enjoyable to end the season with a Rio hunt.