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Started by Dmason3, April 19, 2024, 09:29:45 PM

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Dmason3




Picture doesn't do it justice, I'm a pretty big boy.

Thought I knew where they were roosted but they didn't gobble a single time on the limb. If I would have set up where Initially thought was a good spot I would have killed him 20 minutes after fly down. Saw several hens fly down in the next field over and then watched a few tons follow them out. Took them a while but after some cutting I had them all worked up and looking for me. The fence row was too thick for them to see the decoys so they kept working back and forth gobbling their heads off. I was on a pretty tight time crunch because I had to be home to get the kids to school so instead of waiting to see how soon they would commit I belly crawled through the thick stuff and peeked over a log and shot this guy at about 25 yards. Would have been a heck of a show if I had followed my gut. I still have two tags left, one for 4th season and one for 5th season so I'm still in the game for a possible upgrade.


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wvhoyt19

Heck yeah! Congrats!!


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birdman67

Congrats! That's a big bird!
Loving God's Creation!

JeffC

Print by Madison Cline, on Flickr

aclawrence

Nice. Congrats!


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Tom007

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Hunt with your kids, not for them.

Moore

That's a great bird. Congrats
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