It's not very often that I have a chance to hunt a private ranch for turkeys, so I jumped at this chance in Southeast Montana. The rancher had let a couple guys shoot birds early in the season, but no one since.
After a 7 hour drive, we arrived at 2:30 AM Monday morning. We crashed in an old bunkhouse until 8:30 AM and started hunting at 10 AM. Pastor had a tom by 11AM. We hunted for a couple more hours but couldn't convince a tom that we'd heard while calling in the first to commit.
That evening we had dinner with the rancher and his family. He'd brought a horny toad lizard home that his girls were thrilled with.
Afterwards we tried to fish in a local pond for small mouth, without any luck.
We started hunting at about sunrise on Tuesday and followed a flock around for a couple hours before I got into a right time right place position with one of the gobblers and he strutted in at 7:42 AM.
We hunted the dominant bird for a few more hours with Pastor's other tag before deciding getting home a day early would win us some brownie points. After stopping at another ranch and the family insisting that we eat supper with them, we got home at 2 AM last night.
Couple MT Toms
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I hope you give thanks every day for days you have received in turkey country. Congrats - again. Lol.
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Incredible once again, congrats !
The most experienced novice Turkey hunter the good Lord ever created !
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Really sorry you had to suffer through that.
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Way to go, Hobbes. You are stacking them up this year! Nice pics!
May I assume you're not here to inquire about the alcohol or the tobacco?
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“Leave the gun, take the cannoli” -Clemensa
When attacked by a group of clowns...Go for the Juggler!!
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Very beautiful gobblers to both of you!
Them toads are cool. My daughter would keep it and name it
Them toads are cool. My daughter would keep it and name it