Definitely had a hunt to remember this morning! Good action with a lot of birds around. Struck out off the roost, and with two strutters in a field next to me. Circled around a couple times on a bird gobbling down in the hollow, and had a nice long conversation with him. He seemed to like everything I was saying, but hung up on me for a while. We gave each other the silent treatment for a few minutes, and I cut at him to try to locate him and see if I needed to try to move again. He had definitely closed the distance quite a bit, and shortly I heard the crunching leaves I had been waiting for! He was a heck of a bird: 22 lb, 1" and 1 3/16" spurs, and 31.5" of beard between 4 beards. It makes my first multi-bearded bird, and killing him with a walnut ceramic over glass that I made is icing on the cake!
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Very nice bird , congrats to you :icon_thumright:
Awesome bird!! Must be a nice feeling to take him with a call you made. :icon_thumright:
Quote from: RutnNStrutn on April 20, 2016, 05:33:21 PM
Awesome bird!! Must be a nice feeling to take him with a call you made. :icon_thumright:
Thanks, it sure is! It's a fun hobby, and it makes moments like these just that much sweeter.
Congrats on a great bird!
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Wow! Great bird! Congrats!
Awesome bird!! Congrats!!
Congratulations on one heck of an awesome bird! Very cool utilizing a call you made as well
Wowza, awesome gobbler!!! Seems that a lot of folks are connecting on multi-bearded birds this season!! :drool:
Awesome bird!
Congrats.... I killed one with 6 beards last Sunday in KY...What county were you in?
Quote from: maytom on April 21, 2016, 10:07:33 AM
Wowza, awesome gobbler!!! Seems that a lot of folks are connecting on multi-bearded birds this season!! :drool:
I know. I have one buddy that I hunt with almost all the time, and neither one of us had ever gotten one. He shot one with 3 beards Sunday morning, and then I got this one.
Quote from: Roost 1 on April 21, 2016, 11:21:08 AM
Congrats.... I killed one with 6 beards last Sunday in KY...What county were you in?
Nice! I live in Henry, killed it in Carroll.
Nice bird!! Congrats!! :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
Oh wow! :happy0064:
That's an awesome bird! Taxidermy time...
Congrats!
Quote from: Kylongspur88 on April 21, 2016, 08:54:11 PM
That's an awesome bird! Taxidermy time...
Thanks! Haha, yeah I think I am going to get this one done. I've been wanting one for a while, and those beards should make for a good mount.
Stud bird, love the surprise when you roll a bird over and see more than one beard
Super GOB! Congrats
Awesome bird. Congrats
beautiful bird....congrats
Awesome..I love the bonus beards!
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A real trophy bird! Congrats!
Well done
Very nice bird!
Thanks for the comments guys, I'm still smiling a week later!
Great bird. Congrats gotta love turkey hunting.
One Dandy of a bird! Congrats!!