December 20th.
A little bit of a short week as the Growing Deer Team prepares for Christmas, but a bunch
of action.
Adam and Brian had a chance to go hunting with the Redneck guys.
They come back with some whopping stories of does, bobcats and a Christmas turkey.
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Earlier this week the guys from Redneck Blinds called and said they had a great pattern of
some turkeys so Brian and I jumped in the truck and headed to Lamar, Missouri.
Here in Missouri, you can bow hunt during the muzzleloader season.
So I jumped in a Redneck with Russ and his bow and Brian jumped in a blind with Jerry
and a muzzleloader.
The bottom field we were hunting had a lot of deer activity and a lot of turkey activity
so we're set up on opposite ends of the field, hoping that one of us would have some success.
Today's December the 18th.
We're out trying to get a Christmas turkey here at the Redneck hunting lease.
We're in a portable blind that we set up on the edge of a field here and we've got some
turkeys patterned and it's a big group of 'em so hopefully, we can get one isolated
and get him to walk by here and we'll be able to get a shot on one.
Not long after sunrise Russ and I spotted movement in the field.
They started angling their way along the edge of the field so I let out a few squeaks, but
they weren't having any of it.
They went out of sight and about 30 minutes later, we started hearing the turkeys cackling.
(Whispering) It sounds like it's still behind us.
It wasn't much longer we started hearing them fly down and head our way.
Two, five, fifteen turkeys, 50+ turkeys head onto the field and now we're just hoping they're
headed our way.
Now, we had a flock of about 20 hens behind the blind off camera.
They were calling, yelping, cackling and it was just enough to tease these young jakes.
(Whispering) How far?
That's about 20 yards.
Look at that.
This is good video here.
He drills it.
It flies off, lands in the midst of all the other birds and dies...
Oh, Wow. ...and it's Christmas turkey at Russ' house.
(Whispering) I can't believe I missed that first one.
(Whispering) I can't believe they stood there and let you shoot again.
Oh my gosh, they're all coming right to him.
Right.
(Inaudible)...try to kill it They got the Redneck and the turkeys in the
shot now.
Did he shoot?
Oh yeah.
Shot.
It appeared the shot was made 30/35 yards.
Well there it is.
Right there.
Look at that.
Still glowing.
Oh, yup.
The one that missed.
(Chuckling) Little jake.
Got a couple, 2 inch beard on it.
Wow, look at that.
The broadhead's missing.
Completely gone off the end of it.
Sure ripped a massive hole in a bird like that.
Can't believe he went as far as he did.
Wow.
It's a young bird.
But it'll be good eating.
Now that Russ has his Christmas turkey, we decided to pick up the muzzleloader and see
if we could harvest a nice deer.
It was a very eventful afternoon, but it was highlighted with a flock of 27 long beards
in the field in front of us.
209 in the back.
You know that's where they're going to be.
That's exactly where they're gonna be.
Tonight, as we did this morning, we're looking to do some deer management on this farm; reduce
the doe number.
And again, we will also be donating this, uh to the food pantry.
So, we'll see what happens.
(Whispering) That fawn is in the way.
(Whispering) Yeah.
(Whispering) They're gonna come right by that cedar tree.
(Whispering) Probably.
(Whispering) Is that the mature doe facing us?
Yeah, that's the button buck to the right.
I think that's the doe.
Ready?
(Whispering) Yeah.
(Whispering) Good shot.
Good shot.
(Whispering) That's one for the management team.
(Whispering) That's right.
(Whispering) Yeah.
(Whispering) What is that?
(Whispering) That's a bobcat, isn't it?
(Whispering) Yeah it is.
You want to take it?
It's gonna come right at us.
Steady.
Hang on.
Let him clear that, clear that grass.
I can't see him.
(Whispering) I can't either.
(Whispering) There he is.
Ready?
Uh, oh.
This is going to be easy.
He just sat down.
You sure it's not a house cat?
(Whispering) Oh no, that's, that's a bob kitty.
(Whispering) I'm ready when you are.
Good shot.
(Whispering) Smoked him.
There's turkeys all over over there.
We were just walking down here to check on our companions and we happened to see a bobcat
come running across the food plot and, so we sat down real quick and just about the
time we got a little bit closer, saw the shoot and the powder fly and I think there's a bobcat
laying on the ground now, too.
So, we're going to go check it out and see what's -- seems like they've had all the activity
today.
She started to walk out in this opening and then she seen, she seen the blind over there
and really liked it and just walked right to it.
(Chuckling) Good.
You heard the shot when we were coming down the road?
We did.
We saw that whole thing.
Yeah.
Oh yeah, I saw it in the food plot.
When we stopped up there, I'm, like, "What's that?"
Well, you know, to further enhance the story, when I reloaded, I forgot to...
Primer. ...put a new primer in and the first shot
snapped.
Snapped.
Hopefully, we spared a few turkey lives this, this winter.
There's probably, probably a few too many birds around here, but I prefer to be the
one that's killing them instead of that bobcat.
Yeah, I mean, I think I like the taste of them better than he does.
This was a great morning with the guys from Redneck.
Jerry and I had tons of fun.
Harvested a large doe.
Helped the management team; was able to donate the meat to the county food harvest.
Took a predator out.
All in all, it was a great morning.
As we prepare for 2013, I hope you all have a safe and prosperous New Year and most importantly,
I hope you have time to have a great relationship with the Creator.
Thanks for watching GrowingDeer.tv.