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2005
Grand Slam 6-Pack
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Slams for 3 Wild Turkey Bowhunters (2 each of every species) ...
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Hunts: Florida
Hunt #1 | Florida
Hunt #2 | Texas
| Nebraska |
Illinois
| Texas Hunt #2
Rio
Bound ...
Day
1 - 4:30am - It's Time To Do It
Doug
Crabtree and Fred Lutger and start the Rio part of our Grand Slam Quest.
We heard several gobbles at sunset. This morning we will set up on the
dam where Fred and I saw 2 rope longbeards strutting Thursday. Wish us
luck. To The Hunt...
First Rio Grande
Down
Day
2 - 4:14pm
I'm
updating directly from my blind at the Point. Minutes ago two gobblers
responded to my calls. Here's
what came down...
Back
To Day 2 Morning...
 Fred
Lutger hunted the Gate and had gobbler action several times. Later he heard
hen talk as gobbles got closer.
Suddenly he was surprised
by a bow shot. Then a long beard raced into view ... with Doug Crabtree
right behind it. To Fred's
Hunt... AND To
Doug's Hunt...
Rio
Grande Bowhunt
Day 3 - Gobble
and Shoot
 Morning
- Fred Gets The Action At The Gate
Incoming birds walk right
up. Fred draws. Go...
Afternoon - Gobblers answer
in the distance and I call them in and take 3 cool pictures. And get my
bow. Go...
Day 4 - TORNADO
Morning: Fred gets
gobbler action.
Afternoon: A loud
cracking noise sounded in the sky. Everything looked ok. CRACK!!! Louder.
Everything got dead still.
Whoooommmm. Big wind. Leaves, twigs and debris filled he air. Oh, oh, the
blind lifted up and I grabbed a window and struggled to hold it down. Day
4 Hunt
Day 5 - MORNING
- The Last Stand In Texas
Gobbles sounded all along
the river and across the field as Fred and Doug waited in the blind for
daylight. When it was light enough that a turkey could be on the ground
Doug made soft hen yelps. Gobbles ... it sounded like thunder going down
the river. Day 5 Hunt
Bowhunting
Nebraska
To
Nebraska Day 1 Bowhunt...
Day 1 - Fred Tags
The First
 After
the landowner showed us around.Fred went to an area near a gate in the
wire fence by one of the ranch roads.
Terry had told him the turkeys
passed through the area in the afternoon on their way to the roost trees.
Terry was right! To
Hunt...
Day 1 - Patience
Pays Off
(Imagine That)
 
I wanted to hunt the gobblers
we saw in the wind break. I set up differently and it got me in some turkeys
and pictures. To
My Hunt & Pics....
Looking For The
Right 5 Minutes
And The First
Grand Slam
It's 30 miles of slow driving,
dirt roads to the property we are hunting and we got up at 4:00am so we
could be set up before daylight. I hunted the Wind Break. Doug and Fred
returned to the Cottonwoods. And things got good. To
Day 2 ...
5 More Minutes
...
 As
Doug's first longbeard collapsed at the base of a tree a 3rd longbeard
attacked it by jumping up and spurring it, grabbing its snoodle and jerking
its head around, and pecking it wildly.
As soon as Doug dropped
his second tom Fred grabbed his bow and started a sneak toward the attacking
gobbler. To This
Hunt...
A Nebraska 6-Pack
 
All we needed was for me
to get a 2nd gobbler and we would have 2 apiece. I got lucky and shot right
when it counted. And got some swell pictures of the gobbler as it came
in. To Hunt
& Pics...
Bowhunting
Illinois
Illinois - Day
1
 
We are hunting as guests
of with Wells Creek Outfitters in Clayton, Illinois. Everyone heard lots
of gobbles on the roost and had encounters of the gobbler kind. To
The Hunt...
Day 2 - A Ground
Dragging, Rope Beard Comes To The Call
 At
11:12 I answered a deep toned gobble. We went back and forth as the
booming gobbles got closer. He walked out of the woods and looked at my
decoys and and strutted up. Then he looked into the field and back at my
decoys, and back and forth. I checked the field. Yikes! To
The Hunt & Lots Of PIcs...
Day 3 - Bob McNeff's
Turn
Today Bob McNeff, our host at Wells Creek Outfitters, heard 5 toms gobbling
and walked uphill and set his decoys in a small open area and hid behind
a "green, leafy bush." The toms stayed in the trees until 6:50. While he
waited Bob called & rattled leaves. To
Day 3...
Back To Day 4
Every time the hen laid
down for the longbeard the other hen pecked her until she got up. I wanted
to get closer than 150 yards. And I did ... up to 10 yards. Here's
how...
Day 4 & 5
- Last Minute Rally
Chances were good that I
could call in both male turkeys. Things looked good for a last minute rally.
To
Day 4 & 5 Hunt...
April 21 - 23 - Hunt
logs & pics
I hunted the Gate and Point.
The Duck came down and he got covered up with longbeards. To
The Hunts pics...
Apr 24 - Longbeards! Hurry Up!
One gobble sounded louder
than the rest and I smacked down a hen and jake decoy and got in the blind.
Gobble! Close! Like 60 to
70 yards.
I reached to make a shooting
window. Woops! Hold up! A longbeard walked out. To
Hunt...
Apr 25 - The Longbeard Trio
Gobblers are working the
hens hard. So they are not coming to calls now. But they are constantly
on the move and the time proven turkey areas are paying off. To
The Hunt...
Apr 26 - Gobble On Over
Here come the gobblers.
And the Duck has a trick for the Longbeard Trio. To
Hunt...
Nice
Day For A Grand Slam
 
The plan was to only hunt
an hour. That was before a longbeard showed up. To
The Hunt...
Osceola
Bowhunt #2
Action In The
Orange Grove
 
Later in March Fred Lutger,
Doug Crabtree and I bowhunt with Ken Mayes in for Osceolas. Nine days of
hard hunting with ups and downs. And a strong finish. To Our Florida
Hunt #2.
South
Florida Osceola Bowhunt
DAY 1 - Doug
Crabtree's South Florida Opener in March
 
Turkeys! In the palmettos.
Doug popped up the Double Bull on the edge, set the decoys, and called.
Without a peep the birds entered the field and ran to the blind -- 14 Toms.
Day
1 | Day
2 | Day
3.
Fall's
Field Test Results
Here is the low down on
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PLOTSPIKE Seeds and the Power Wick & Special Golden Estrus. To
Results...
Bowhunting
Wild Hogs 2005
Bowhunting
Wild Hogs 2005 Home Page
When You Least Expect It
... Hogs!
 
(Mar 17) - Yesterday I noticed
a 10 yard pool of water in the windmill area. This morning I drove there
and put a TrailTimer EZ Cam there to see if wild turkeys (turkey season
is only days away) are drinking from it. On the way I got a surprise. One
heck of a wild
hog hunt...
March 16 - The Hogs Are Back...
Black objects on a side trail caught
my attention on the way to the Hammer Hole. Wild hogs. To
The Hunt ..
NWTF
Convention & Sport Show
To
HOME PAGE For NWTF Coverage
Every year we cover the National
Wild Turkey Federation Convention & Sport Show. Here's what happened
in 2005 in Nashville.
 
 
 TurkeyCall
Making Competition...
Taxidermy
Competition...
Photos
From The Show...
Kids
Art Competition...
Scouting
For Deer 2005
Home
Page Scouting For Deer 2005
Feb 4 - Freak Pics
Good News - This morning the
Freak buck finally hung out until there was enough daylight for some
decent pictures. To
Feb 4 Freak Pics...
ATA
Archery Trade Show 2005
To
2005 ATA Show Home Page
 
ATA is the archery &
bowhunting industry's biggest show and is the only national trade show
produced exclusively for our industry.
Follow our coverage and
pics of the show and check out over 200 new products for 2005. GO...
2004
Deer Hunt
Daily
Logs & Pictures
2004
Deerhunt HOME PAGE
December's
Hunt Was All Good
LIVE FROM THE FOOD PLOT BLIND
The
pieces of the puzzle all come together
 
In December I ran electric
cords and a phone line out to my Double Bull blind and made live updates
during the day -- with pics. Dec Hunt...
Follow the sightings and
pics of the Freak buck, Big Boy 9, & Broken Tine,
day by day. GO...
Deerhunt - October
& November
Daily Pictures &
Hunt Logs put online day by day: To
October... and To November...
Hunting
The Ohio Rut
Bowhunting
With Crabby
Home
Page of Ohio Bowhunt
 
The
Duck and I bowhunt the big buck country of Ohio during the rut with Dennis
Crabtree (Crabby), Pip and others. Here are the daily Hunt
Logs & Pics.
Bowhunting
With Billy Don
the 1st Bowhunting.Net
Deerhunt
To:
Days
1-5 and
Days
6-10
The first every Bowhunting.net
Deer Hunt was the 2nd week of season and it was a fun, buck getting
event with exceptional hunt success for bucks and wild hogs for all 16
bowhunters. Pictures galore of bucks, hunters and more.
 
BowFit's
Dave Cole & Billy Don Van Cleave
2004
Bear Bowhunt In Ontario
2004
Bear Hunt Home Page
Watching
the Bears 24 Hours A Day
Bears
From A Ground Blind
4x4
Grand Slammer of 2004
TO
HOME PAGE of 4x4 Grand Slammer...
 
Four bowhunters go for
their online wild turkey Grand Slam, in the 2004 Spring season.
Follow, day by day, with
lots of pics, Doug Crabtree, Fred Lutger, Tony Dukes and Robert Hoague
on this Spring's adventure as we hunt wild turkey in Florida, South Dakota,
Texas, Illinois and Ohio.
TO the hunts for the:
Osceola,
Rio
#1, Rio #2, Merriam's,
Eastern,
and Who Got The Grand
Slam? (the pictures)
Scouting
For Deer 2004
Scouting
For Deer 2004 Home Page
 
Scouting all year long,
from the first buck in velvet, the first fawn sighting, and bucks with
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young Frandk Addington with Earl Hoyt
Remembering
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Archery great Earl Hoyt was everything and more than we would expect. Frank
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Wolf Creek's Tom Nelson
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Turkey
Hunt With PCBA, by Tony Dukes
PCBA's Drew McCarthy and
Tony Dukes go on the trail for wild turkey.
NEWS:
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Board Elected For 2005
The movers and shakers that
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- Your equipment is ready. The scouting is done. What technique should
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Gobble:
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Ready for opening day? Dale
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