The highlights of my season were a Double Single Season Slam using my late buddy J. Guthrie's turkey gun: His gun ended up taking 11 birds (by 4 of his friends) this spring and I hope it was a fitting tribute to my hunting buddy. http://www.petersenshunting.com/2013/04 ... s-guthrie/
I ended up killing 14 turkeys, saw 25 die, saw 9 misses/wounded (including two of my own) and made boot tracks across some of the pretiest country I have seen with some great friends (new and old). I finished my 16ga Grand Slam with a great Texas Rio, began my bearded hen slam with a 8" bearded hen in Texas and started my .410 grand slam with a long spurred SC bird. With the help of Hal and other folks on this site, I killed my first bird with a shell I handloaded and about 5 of my buddies killed a pile of birds with TSS shells I built.
I don't have pictures of every bird, but here are some of my favorites. I'm already planning for 2015, God willing, I'll be starting in Florida, heading to Mexico to try to finish my World Slam and hopefully adding a few new states to my US Slam list.
Thanks again to everyone for the guidance on teaching me the world of handloading!
Samantha Simonton, FL Youth Season shooting Guthrie's gun
Florida Sunset
My best spurs of the year 1 3/8" spurred Osceola
Shot at 53 yards through a cattle gate:
Image of video taken before my buddy shot this Kansas bird:
First bird with a .410 taken in SC, 1 1/4" spurs
We called this bird from above this rock. Bird in next pic to complete Double Single Season Slam
Montana
Bird off of Indian Reservation with black primary wing feather:
Colorado Sunrise
Colorado jakes not being gentlemen to my Avian X hen:
Last bird of the season, my first in Colorado:
