Wyatt Schearer from Shoot Straight TV with His Tennessee Turkey

Editors Note: Jr. Pro Staffer Wyatt Schearer from Shoot Straight TV starts his season off right in Tennessee with the CVA Apex and its tight shooting Bergara 12 gauge Turkey Barrel.

Hunting eastern gobblers can be a challenge at times. Days of scouting, patterning your shotgun and preparing for the hunt all take place prior to your hunt. Then you hope when everything comes together. I once heard that luck is where preparation meets opportunity. It was the first morning in Tennessee. Our good friend Ted Bratcher had been scouting birds and knew where a gobbler had been strutting mid-morning for the last several days. As we got out of the truck he said if we are patient this morning we will get this bird if he does what he normally does. It was still dark as we slipped the decoy into the field and set up in a hedgerow of trees. My wife Marsha, Wyatt’s mom, was running camera for our show Shoot Straight and we were settled in for what would probably be a couple hour wait. Just in case there were any birds close we did some light tree yelps on our call. The sun was starting to scarcely light the sky when Marsha whispered I almost have enough cameras light. Within minutes we heard wings flapping and the gobbler was pitching down over our heads and landed on the other side of our decoy. Wyatt raised the CVA Apex that had been resting on his knee and looked through his Konus Atomic Sight. The gobbler was standing alert at 41 yards. He slowly cocked the hammer and Marsha said, “I am on him.” The shot hit its mark and the bird dropped. We ran up on the gobbler and high fives were flying not to mention the feathers too. What an exciting seven-minute hunt. We were at Cracker Barrel eating breakfast by 7:00 am. How often does that ever happen?

By Chad Schearer from Shoot Straight TV

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Missouri Turkey Hunt with Eddie Stripling from Open Season TV

After taking a limit of five Gobblers in my home State of Alabama I decided to try my luck turkey hunting in Missouri. The first two mornings in Missouri the temperature was in the 30′s and the turkeys were not gobbling much. In Missouri you can only hunt till 1PM each day so in the afternoons we would glass fields looking for gobblers and it paid off. On the second afternoon I located three long beards with a group of hens feeding in a pasture on a cattle farm that I had hunted and taken turkeys on in previous years. As I glassed the long beards with my binoculars I told Darin I know where we will be at daylight in the morning.
The next morning about an hour before daylight Darin and I put up the Rhino blind and placed the decoys about 20 yards in front of the blind. Just as it started breaking day turkeys started gobbling almost 360 degrees around our setup and I gave Darin a thumbs up! Not long after daylight turkeys starting flying down in the pasture we were set up in with two long beards in the flock! The turkeys were probable 400 yards or so from our blind so I knew I needed to make some very convincing calls to make them come to our setup. After about and hour of watching them strut and gobble I got the two gobblers to leave the hens and come my way. Both Gobblers came in to about 45 yards and started clucking like they saw something they didn’t like! The two Gobblers were walking around in circles right next to each other and finally one of the Gobblers separated from the other. I was sure glad I had the CVA resting on the Bog-Pod shooting sticks because my nerves had me shaking! I placed the red dot of the Vortex Sparc on his head and sent a load of Winchester #6 shot down the barrel of the CVA Apex to end the morning hunt. When I walked out and picked up the Gobbler I was very pleased to see that it had 1 ½” spurs and a nice 11” beard!

Keep watching “Open Season TV” on the Pursuit channel and look for my Missouri Turkey hunt!

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Eddie Striping Kentucky Turkey Hunt with CVA

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

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Kentucky Turkey with Adam Bush from Openseason TV Using the CVA Apex

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

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Turkey Hunting from Mike Vannes Opean Season TV with The CVA Apex

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

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