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Subject: hist_text-digest V1 #1343
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hist_text-digest Tuesday, April 20 2004 Volume 01 : Number 1343
In this issue:
-áááááá MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
-áááááá RE: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
-áááááá Re: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
-áááááá Re: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
-áááááá MtMan-List: Shooting Contests
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Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:09:22 -0600 (MDT)
From: beaverboy@sofast.net
Subject: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
Dear List,
Just got done watching Night & Hale on the Outdoor Channel. They
were turkey hunting. It got me to thinking about how all these guys
on the Outdoor Channel are packing AND selling all the latest gizmo
to get that bird or buck with. ItÆs amazing the guns and other gear
they use now compared to when I was a kid hunting turkeys in the
Missouri woods. They didnÆt have hot turkey shells back then or
even decoys. We shot all our turkeys back then with 2 3/4ö high
brass regular 4 or 6 shot shells. And killed just as many turkeys.
We had only about eight calls to chose from too. Most of my buddies
and me packed break open single shot .12 ga back then. 2 3/4"
chambers.
I got my Gobbler last Monday morning. A year and a day to last
years bird. Last year I got mine on Easter Morning, this year I had
Monday off so decided to go Monday instead of Easter.
Hiked halfway up the mountain through and around snowdrifts up to
my knees. Finally found a flock of ten birds or so but they would
not respond much to my calls. Such a pretty sight, turkeys walking
the snow crust. I knew the area well so figured out where they were
going and ran ahead of them to ambush them.
Ended up getting a 20 lb Tom with 3/4öspurs and an 8ö beard. 1
ounce of #5 with 85 grains of ff. Used my old Roger Latham slate
call to get them right to me. A 20 yard shot with the old fusee.
Had an instant ignition and just loved the way that .20ga cracked
on that cold Ponderosa covered mountainside.
DonÆt you just love it when a plan comes together?!
Just goes to show you we don't need all that high tech crap to fill
tags, just a simple weapon, experience, persistence and a little
luck.
I hope you guys are getting your birds too.
Good luck,
bb
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 00:10:58 +0000
From: "Sean Boushie" <flintlocknfur@hotmail.com>
Subject: RE: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
Got mine!! They sound like twin birds almost. Its been a good year around
here for the turkeys, mild winter, dry spring, summer full of hoppers (in
my garden anyway). Even used one of those new fangled unreliable per-suction
guns. It was a bit bigger load than your fusee. probably double in gauge,
double in barrel too. Nice goin bb!
>From: beaverboy@sofast.net
>Reply-To: hist_text@lists.xmission.com
>To: hist_text@xmission.com
>Subject: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
>Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2004 13:09:22 -0600 (MDT)
>
>Dear List,
> Just got done watching Night & Hale on the Outdoor Channel. They
>were turkey hunting. It got me to thinking about how all these guys
>on the Outdoor Channel are packing AND selling all the latest gizmo
>to get that bird or buck with. ItÆs amazing the guns and other gear
>they use now compared to when I was a kid hunting turkeys in the
>Missouri woods. They didnÆt have hot turkey shells back then or
>even decoys. We shot all our turkeys back then with 2 3/4ö high
>brass regular 4 or 6 shot shells. And killed just as many turkeys.
>We had only about eight calls to chose from too. Most of my buddies
>and me packed break open single shot .12 ga back then. 2 3/4"
>chambers.
> I got my Gobbler last Monday morning. A year and a day to last
>years bird. Last year I got mine on Easter Morning, this year I had
>Monday off so decided to go Monday instead of Easter.
> Hiked halfway up the mountain through and around snowdrifts up to
>my knees. Finally found a flock of ten birds or so but they would
>not respond much to my calls. Such a pretty sight, turkeys walking
>the snow crust. I knew the area well so figured out where they were
>going and ran ahead of them to ambush them.
> Ended up getting a 20 lb Tom with 3/4öspurs and an 8ö beard. 1
>ounce of #5 with 85 grains of ff. Used my old Roger Latham slate
>call to get them right to me. A 20 yard shot with the old fusee.
>Had an instant ignition and just loved the way that .20ga cracked
>on that cold Ponderosa covered mountainside.
> DonÆt you just love it when a plan comes together?!
> Just goes to show you we don't need all that high tech crap to fill
>tags, just a simple weapon, experience, persistence and a little
>luck.
> I hope you guys are getting your birds too.
> Good luck,
> bb
>
>
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 10:43:44 -0500
From: "Monte Holder" <sja028@mail.connect.more.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
- ----- Original Message -----
From: <beaverboy@sofast.net>
To: <hist_text@xmission.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 2:09 PM
Subject: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
> Dear List,
> Just got done watching Night & Hale on the Outdoor Channel. They
> were turkey hunting. It got me to thinking about how all these guys
> on the Outdoor Channel are packing AND selling all the latest gizmo
> to get that bird or buck with. It's amazing the guns and other gear
> they use now compared to when I was a kid hunting turkeys in the
> Missouri woods. They didn't have hot turkey shells back then or
> even decoys. We shot all our turkeys back then with 2 3/4" high
> brass regular 4 or 6 shot shells. And killed just as many turkeys.
> We had only about eight calls to chose from too. Most of my buddies
> and me packed break open single shot .12 ga back then. 2 3/4"
> chambers.
> I got my Gobbler last Monday morning. A year and a day to last
> years bird. Last year I got mine on Easter Morning, this year I had
> Monday off so decided to go Monday instead of Easter.
> Hiked halfway up the mountain through and around snowdrifts up to
> my knees. Finally found a flock of ten birds or so but they would
> not respond much to my calls. Such a pretty sight, turkeys walking
> the snow crust. I knew the area well so figured out where they were
> going and ran ahead of them to ambush them.
> Ended up getting a 20 lb Tom with 3/4"spurs and an 8" beard. 1
> ounce of #5 with 85 grains of ff. Used my old Roger Latham slate
> call to get them right to me. A 20 yard shot with the old fusee.
> Had an instant ignition and just loved the way that .20ga cracked
> on that cold Ponderosa covered mountainside.
> Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?!
> Just goes to show you we don't need all that high tech crap to fill
> tags, just a simple weapon, experience, persistence and a little
> luck.
> I hope you guys are getting your birds too.
> Good luck,
> bb
>
>
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> hist_text list info: http://www.xmission.com/~drudy/mtman/maillist.html
>
>
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2004 11:08:15 -0500
From: "Monte Holder" <sja028@mail.connect.more.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
Sorry, I don't know what happened on that previous post other than me being
stupid. I do agree with Mr. beaverboy though, these guys put a show on TV
and so everybody has to have one. How in the world could those dumb suckers
ever made a living with single shot rifles and smoothbores?
Good luck to all you going out to get turkeys with your smoothbores, I don't
have mine together yet. When you get one, be sure to rub somebody with the
autoloader 3 1/2 in mag with pistol grip synthetic etc...etc. stuff nose in
it. I would take my 45 flinter but that appears to be against the law here
in Missouri, so I wouldn't be able to tell anybody about it anyway.
Monte Holder
Saline COunty MO
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <beaverboy@sofast.net>
> To: <hist_text@xmission.com>
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2004 2:09 PM
> Subject: MtMan-List: Gobble Gobble!
>
>
> > Dear List,
> > Just got done watching Night & Hale on the Outdoor Channel. They
> > were turkey hunting. It got me to thinking about how all these guys
> > on the Outdoor Channel are packing AND selling all the latest gizmo
> > to get that bird or buck with. It's amazing the guns and other gear
> > they use now compared to when I was a kid hunting turkeys in the
> > Missouri woods. They didn't have hot turkey shells back then or
> > even decoys. We shot all our turkeys back then with 2 3/4" high
> > brass regular 4 or 6 shot shells. And killed just as many turkeys.
> > We had only about eight calls to chose from too. Most of my buddies
> > and me packed break open single shot .12 ga back then. 2 3/4"
> > chambers.
> > Don't you just love it when a plan comes together?!
> > Just goes to show you we don't need all that high tech crap to
fill
> > tags, just a simple weapon, experience, persistence and a little
> > luck.
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Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:58:40 -0600
From: "Stuart Family" <EJSRB@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: MtMan-List: Shooting Contests
Folks, another question: What do you have as history on different types of
shooting games/challenges that would be accomplished at rendezvous? I am
interested in how they showed their marksmanship skills while hanging out
together.
Ed "Brother Bear" Stuart
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