Moose and Remnar went out to the new blind at Dead Skunk this morning. I went out to the Honey Hole. This was Remnar’s first turkey hunt. He had expressed interest in hunting the birds over the winter, but work intervened.

I was sitting in my blind at 0738, having a very mediocre morning. All of a sudden a blast came from behind me, followed by a lot of whooping and cheering. What had happened is that Moose had bagged a big one at 25 yards in rather spectacular style. The way it was told to me, they were working a tepid bird down in the Hundred Acre Wood when all of a sudden a big old head slewed their way from the north face of Gobbler’s Knob. A few minutes and a few gobbles later, a whopper of a bird appeared from the treeline just to the right of The Jagende Hutte, and proceeded to make a beeline straight towards the blind, about 150 yards away. Remnar got to see the gobbler walk straight towards him, leaving a trail in the dew. John blew a round of 12 GA #5’s at him at 25 yards and the bird just fell over backward and never twitched.

This bird had only a 9-inch beard– some of it Moose took off with the shot. He was 22 lbs and had 1 1/8″ spurs– long curved things.

Remnar’s hooked. We went out again as Moose started cleaning the bird. We hung out in Viriginia for over an hour and never heard a single gobble.

 

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