CVA Muzzleloading Blog

It’s “OPEN SEASON” on Kentucky long beards! I got an invitation from fellow “OPEN SEASON TV” pro staff member Rusty Jackson in Kentucky to come turkey hunt with him. You don’t have to ask me twice to go turkey hunting so I loaded the truck and headed north. The first morning in Kentucky Rusty had me on gobbling turkeys and even had one come to our decoys but he didn’t hang around long enough to get the footage I wanted on film. We got on several gobblers the next couple of days but just couldn’t get the footage I wanted. On the last morning of my hunt I set up before daylight in a planted corn field where we had located turkeys in the day before. As it started breaking day a gobbler started gobbling about a 100 yards from our setup. After the turkeys flew down, I never heard another gobble. I made all the sweet calls I knew to make on my turkey calls but I could not convince the turkey to gobble again to give away his location. I decided to move down the edge of the corn field to see if I could locate the gobbler. I slipped around the edge of the field and saw the big gobbler strutting over a rise in the field with his hen girlfriends. I knew now why he was not gobbling he had plenty of company. I backed up and slipped my strutting gobbler decoy and a hen decoy out into the edge of the field and backed up into a bush to hide myself. About 30 minutes later I saw just a hen turkey head sticking up above the rise in the corn field and I could tell they were feeding my way. I l then seen the top of the fan on the Gobbler strutting in the field. I eased my CVA Apex rifle with 12ga Turkey Barrel up on my BOG POD shooting sticks and got ready. As soon as the Gobbler seen the decoys he headed my way! I placed the red dot on the VORTEX SPARC on his head and made sure Darin had the Gobbler in the viewfinder on the Sony camera and I let the Winchester Elite Supreme do the rest. I got my first Kentucky long beard thanks to Rusty Jackson! The Gobbler weighted in at 20 lbs had a 10 inch beard and sharp 1 3/8″ spurs. I want to thank Rusty Jackson, Adam Bush and their Families for a great time in Kentucky.
Eddie Striping From Open Season TV

It was the morning of April 28th here in KY.  We went to one of our farms where we knew the birds where going to be. The plan was for me and Jesse (Rusty’s wife) to kill a double while Rusty was running the camera. We got our CVA Apex’s with a 12 Ga Turkey barrels and the Winchester shells. We then went and set up under an old dead tree, where I had been watching the birds pitch out there almost every day. Sure enough as soon as we got set up the birds started hammering right behind us. We probably had five different birds gobbling all around us. It was about 6:00am when we heard the birds pitch out behind us, within 20 seconds Rusty says there they are. Two Toms walked within 15 yards of the blind and headed straight for Ol’ King Strut. We waited till rusty had both birds in the frame. I rose up the CVA Apex and so did Jesse, we both turned on our Vortex red dot scopes put them on our birds. Rusty counted to three and boom my bird drops, but Jesse missed hers granted her bird was nervous and was walking when she shot. I ran out got my bird and put him behind the cause we still had birds hammering. It wasn’t five minutes later before another Tom pitches out. After a few yelps he pops up over the hill see’s the King Strut and comes in over 400 yards away on a string. Jesse wasn’t going to miss this bird, she pulls the hammer back on the CVA Apex and drops the bird in his tracts. The CVA and then Winchester shells did their job… I’m tagged out in KY. It’s Openseason Baby!!!!!

Adam Bush from OpenSeasonTV

It was a great clear, crisp morning and perfect for turkey hunting! I loaded up the CVA Apex 12 Ga Turkey Barrel with some Winchester Extended range Shells and My OL Tom vest and headed to the woods. It started off slow, we heard a few Gobbles on the roost and then silence. So we did a little walking and locating for a couple hours and we didn’t hear anything. We reached a field edge and there was a HUGE TOM in the field with a few lady friends, so I to tried to get a little closer. I belly crawled to put out a decoy and crawled back, got set up and let out a few calls with my HS strut slate. I had him gobbling his head off but he just wouldn’t leave his women, so we decided to head back in to town and get lunch. We got back and headed to our Rhino blind we set up earlier near that field. Hoping we were on the travel route were he might come back to roost. After sitting for about a half hour had a few whitetail doe’s come in, and that was it. We let out a few clucks and yelps then we just shut up did that about every 15-20 minutes. We were about to pack it up and head out hog hunting then I hear my camera guy say, “BIG tom BIG tom!” He was walking down the road from that same field, it was a plan all coming together. We got all situated and it felt like hours had past he was very quiet and slow being very cautious looking at the decoys, the Tom got closer and closer I shouldered the CVA Apex and looked tough the Vortex Optics spark put the red dot on the head , ask my camera guy “You on em!” He said, “OH YEAH.” ,, The Boss Tom stood about 35 yards away and, I let the CVA bark and the Winchester’s bite and it did the number on that OL Tom… I was so pumped, it was my first Osceola and I had a lot of confidence in my equipment and it paid off. It’s OPEN SEASON TV on Osceola’s.

Mike Vannes from Open Season TV