My first trip to Texas was plagued with rain/wind and close mouthed birds. On my last day I sat up to the edge of a sendero and placed my decoys on the other side. After shout an hour of light calling, 4 birds came running toward my setup. They went behind some brush about 100 yards from me and circled behind the decoys. I could only see their upper half as they periscoped above the cactus. I saw one had a beard and decided it was now or never. At 40 yards I let the 20 say hello and he bang flopped. When I got to him I was somewhat disappointed to see he was not much of a bird. He weighed 14 pounds, 6 & 1/4 inch beard and 1/2 inch spurs. He only scores 36.5 but I grateful to get a chance at one after the past few days. My first ever 20 gauge kill. I will post the (wet bird) pics later as I'm still trying to get everything dry and reorganized on my return to Bama. Hoping to have an upgrade later.
Man, We will take them any way we can get them. Congratulations on your gobbler and what sounds like a great shot. That was TSS, right?
We will take it! Congrats on the bird
Full it was BigXL20 #9's and all I can say is "wow".
congrats! I'm sure you will get an upgrade.
congrats
Ice is broken.
Congratulations :gobble: