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Title: Black Hills Tom
Post by: BHhunter on April 11, 2011, 11:11:58 AM

My son put this one to bed last night, and I went out this morning (he had school). Made some coyote howls and not a peep. Walked farther in howling once in a while and still nothing. Walked to the other side of the ridge and howled, not a peep. Took a few steps and flushed a group of hens. Walked another 100 yards making some calls on the box. After a couple hundred yards got a gobble from a ways off. Stopped put on my face mask and gloves, got a mouth call in and hit the box one more time and he about blew my hat off. Dug my feet into the steep hill I was on and leaned against a tree and immediately saw the top of his head and tail fan. Made a few soft yelps on the mouth call to get him to clear the edge of a mound he was coming over then dropped him at 27 steps. Mossy 835, factory ulti mag choke, Federal 3 1/2 #5 FCW. 9" beard and 7/8" spurs. Shortest first gobble to shot I've ever had. Home before my son was out of bed for school. Not sure how this pic will be, having trouble getting it small enough to be accepted.

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Title: Re: Black Hills Tom
Post by: turkey slayer on April 11, 2011, 11:14:14 AM

Congrats! Great bird!!

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Post by: Hognutz on April 11, 2011, 11:16:39 AM

Congrats on the quick hunt. He sure is a pretty bird. Well done..Mike :you_rock:

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Post by: hookedspur on April 11, 2011, 11:30:54 AM

:icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:

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Post by: hobbes on April 11, 2011, 11:50:26 AM

Congrats!

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Post by: Wrangler95 on April 11, 2011, 12:56:33 PM

:anim_65:

Very nice,congrats!!

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Post by: bayou gobbler on April 11, 2011, 01:04:54 PM

congrats!! nice bird!!

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Post by: headbanger on April 11, 2011, 01:05:34 PM

Nice bird....how'd your son take it? :whip2:

headbanger

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Post by: OLE RASPY on April 11, 2011, 01:16:06 PM

:icon_thumright:

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Post by: Trip on April 11, 2011, 01:18:45 PM

Congrats!!!! :icon_thumright:

Title: Re: Black Hills Tom
Post by: BHhunter on April 11, 2011, 02:03:47 PM

Quote from: headbanger on April 11, 2011, 01:05:34 PM
Nice bird....how'd your son take it? :whip2:

headbanger

He wasn't happy that I was going hunting and he had to go to school, but he knows there's more gobblers up there. I had been scouting those birds for several weeks now, so it was a team effort. It's payback, I've put him on more birds and bucks over the last 5 years and let my tags go unfilled to let him have the joy.

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Post by: socalturkeyman on April 11, 2011, 02:29:35 PM

:z-winnersmiley: :you_rock: :z-guntootsmiley:

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Post by: Bigsho69 on April 11, 2011, 02:55:08 PM

Congrats

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Post by: 870supermagnum on April 11, 2011, 02:59:11 PM

Now that's gettin' the job done quick. Congrats! :happy0064:

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Post by: Basser69 on April 11, 2011, 02:59:25 PM

congrats! :z-guntootsmiley:

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Post by: sugarray on April 11, 2011, 03:02:17 PM

Congratulations!!

If you upload to photobucket or some other online picture hosting, then you can change to size to 800x600 and it is perfect for the forum. Save it as a copy and rename it for forums or something and then you have all the detail from the original and one for OG.

Title: Re: Black Hills Tom
Post by: TRKYHTR on April 11, 2011, 05:07:10 PM

WTG BHhunter. Great looking turkey. I'll be there April 30th. Save me 1.

TRKYHTR

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Post by: savduck on April 11, 2011, 05:13:08 PM

Awesome

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Post by: harvester on April 11, 2011, 05:18:16 PM

congrats on a good bird :z-guntootsmiley:

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Post by: JVA54 on April 11, 2011, 05:37:28 PM

:icon_thumright: Congrats!!

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Post by: njdevilsb on April 11, 2011, 06:20:10 PM

Congrats. Nice looking bird.

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Post by: trkycaller on April 11, 2011, 07:16:23 PM

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Title: Re: Black Hills Tom
Post by: BHhunter on April 11, 2011, 07:18:02 PM

Quote from: TRKYHTR on April 11, 2011, 05:07:10 PM
WTG BHhunter. Great looking turkey. I'll be there April 30th. Save me 1.

TRKYHTR

I'm sure there will be a few left then, but 1 May I can start again with my residnet tag so I'll have to hide one, and two for my son who roosted this for me.

Title: Re: Black Hills Tom
Post by: Dan Mallia on April 11, 2011, 07:21:24 PM

Congrats! :you_rock:

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Post by: cannonball on April 11, 2011, 10:19:55 PM

Nice gobbler :icon_thumright:

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Post by: Rio Fan on April 11, 2011, 10:22:47 PM

Nice looking bird, congrats!

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Post by: RutnNStrutn on April 12, 2011, 01:40:51 AM

Beautiful bird!! Looks like you mashed that noggin!!! Congrats!!

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Post by: bowhunter84 on April 12, 2011, 09:00:16 AM

congrats :icon_thumright:

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Post by: surehuntsalot on April 12, 2011, 09:07:56 PM

congrats on a great bird and a text book hunt

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Post by: bowhunter84 on April 13, 2011, 08:49:51 AM

congrats :icon_thumright:

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Post by: Ol'Mossy on April 13, 2011, 08:59:28 AM

Nice bird, congrats :icon_thumright:

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