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General Forum / Re: If you could hunt 1 day wi...Last post by mountainhunter1 - Today at 12:14:06 PMThat is a hard one as there are dozens on here that would fit the bill - and I would love to spend the day with EZ - yet I have to have my brother's backs and say Bwhana and Beard and Hooks. I know that is two and not one, but I can't take one and leave the other.
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Turkey Hunting Tips ,Strategies & Methods / Re: What Does Killing A Turkey...Last post by EZ - Today at 12:06:22 PMQuote from: eggshell on February 23, 2026, 02:58:24 PMWhat a question! I thought about this for a while before I started this post, because what killing a Gobbler means to me now is so vastly different then it did in the beginning and middle. Killing turkeys has been a journey that journals me as a man, husband, father, friend, sportsman and lover of God's great gifts. Pursuit of a stupid bird has took me across this great country to see things I would most likely not seen if not for a bird. It has brought me great joy, pride, love, near death, anguish, heart ache, jubilation, satisfaction, acceptance, stature and face to face with God. Is killing a bird hard to do, Not at all, because the killing is simple. Aim true and put approximately two pounds of pressure on a trigger and in an instant a noble creature lies flopping his last breath away. In those following moments I have experienced the thrill of victory and agony of defeat ( credit wide world of Sports ). When I was a young man it meant a quest to conquer a great foe and earn a validation for both me and among my peers. It was a character building quest of a lifetime. Sadly it soon just made me a character. My life was defined on my reputation as a turkey killer and pride grew within me like a cancer. Come spring you didn't want to live with me until I could gloat over my trophy. I had forgotten how to hunt and sold my soul to killing. Oh I was good at killing, in my own mind if not others, but plenty where feeding my cancer. The worst thing someone could say to me me was, "why haven't you killed your bird yet, what's wrong". sadly my family paid for my pride as a killer of dumb arse birds. For many years I missed my first daughters birthdays traveling to kill turkeys. My warped mind said, just buy a nice gift and bring home to her, but what she rally longed for was daddy to have a piece of her birthday cake with her, but a bird was between me and her. I killed them by the dozens, but they all turned to sh!t in the end. As I matured and slowed up in life I started to realize so much of what drove me was really worthless. I had joys, successes and tragedies. One fateful day a very dear turkey hunting buddy breathed his last breath in my arms as I tried desperately to breath life back into him with CPR. Life meant nothing if all it done was left this great emptiness in my soul. For years I thought killing a stupid bird could help fill it, but in reality only one thing can fill that hole in a man's soul, God. I opened my heart to Jesus and he filled it. what does this have to do with killing a gobbler, everything. I now saw it as a cancer and as the idol in my life. As I grew in faith I grew in my hunting. I saw a wonderful creation and the hunt became as valuable as the kill. I could now miss a day hunting if my family needed me more, but they always made sure I could go. Funny how those who paid a price for my absence loved me enough to still open theirs lives so I could hunt. Why because in spite of the idiot that showed up every spring they loved me. Now I still go hard to get to that moment I put two pounds of pressure on a trigger, but After I do, I say a prayer over my friend that gave me so much and I smooth out his feathers and I listen to the eulogy that the woods is singing on his behalf. I admire the wildflowers and I relish looking out over a valley below and hearing that ole bird announcing his presence to a world that is missing something without a thundering gobble. I quietly take my game home now and utilize him as table fare. I will share a picture with close friends and a story, but if your not very close you will never know I killed another bird. What does killing a gobbler me to me after 54 years in this game, very little, but the hunt means a lifetime of the worst of me to the best of me and I would not want to live a life without these noble beast, well sometimes I call them demons. I hunt until I'm tired and the fun is waning and I go home. when I am engaged and dueling an old gobbler i just wanna hear him gobble and we'll sing each other a song. If he steps inside my circle I will still take his life, but in that same moment I am a bit sad that the show is over. WOW...I have nothing to add to this. Parallels my experience exactly. Very well said. #3
General Forum / Re: If you could hunt 1 day wi...Last post by JeffC - Today at 12:05:55 PMIt would be awesome to spend time with Mr. Gobblenut! The man is a saint, how he manages to keep all the Grummpies in line is a miracle!!
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General Forum / Re: If you could hunt 1 day wi...Last post by NOmad - Today at 11:54:16 AMCCLeroy - he builds a fine yelper, and it would be a learning experience watching him put one to work in the woods.
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Turkey Calls / Leather Lanyard with Two LoopsLast post by Willieva - Today at 11:40:09 AMHowdy folks,
This season will be the first I'm carrying a trumpet and tube with me and I'd like to get a leather lanyard with two loops that will hold both at once. Any recommendations of someone on here or otherwise who could make that for me? Doesn't have to be fancy, just durable, adjustable, and functional. Sent from my motorola one 5G UW using Tapatalk #6
General Forum / Re: State Bag Limits- Too Many...Last post by bwall3220 - Today at 11:32:01 AMI've said that AR should have went to 1 bird years ago but it never happened, they went to 1 for NR this year. If it ain't a duck the AGFC don't seem to care about it. LOTS of chicken houses have went in the hills of AR over the past 20 years and I've talked to several old timers that believe that spreading their litter in hayfields has spread the chickens diseases to turkeys and played a number on them....something that makes me wonder if they're right?
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General Forum / Re: If you could hunt 1 day wi...Last post by Dtrkyman - Today at 11:31:34 AMJust one.
EZ, would love to soak up all his calling and call building knowledge possible. Honorable mention, Gobblenut. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk #8
General Forum / Re: If you could hunt 1 day wi...Last post by ScottTaulbee - Today at 11:28:22 AMMan that's a tough one. I'd say Tom007 given the chance. But there's so many more I'd love to learn from in the woods
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General Forum / Re: If you could hunt 1 day wi...Last post by Yoder409 - Today at 11:28:20 AMI will preface this by saying there are a bunch that come to mind for me. A whole bunch.
But I'm saying Tarheel. #10
General Forum / If you could hunt 1 day with A...Last post by Yoder409 - Today at 11:26:26 AMAny 1 person from the OG Forums that you have never hunted with before.
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