This past Saturday was my final day behind the gun here in VA. Fooled with this bird for an hour only to have him come in silent and catch me off guard, walk off without me able to get a shot then walk about 80 yrds. in front of me out of sight and gobble his fool head off! Well I decided that I was tired of listening to him gobble so since he would not come back to me I decided to go to him and put the sneak on him! I was able to get within 30 yrds. thanks to some very large oaks and wet leaves and I watched him strut and gobble for 10-15 minutes, I never could get around the tree i was behind because he kept popping in and out of sight and I was afraid of spooking him so I just waited him out and when he finally moved to my left and when he took a couple of steps out from the trees he was behind I shot! I must have been looking over the barrel when I shot because he took off flying to my right so I pumped in another shell and led him as best i could and shot again. I thought I missed him clean both times because he kept flying off to my right out of sight. With my head hanging low I went back to get my calls and decided to call it a morning and head home for some coffee. About 50 yrds. behind my first set up is a powerline that I had to cross to get out and when i step out into it I stopped and there on the otherside in front of me is this turkey piled up, the 2nd shot must have connected and he just locked his wings and crash landed. Needless to say I knelt down after that and thanked the Lord for leading me to him because I wrote it off as two wasted shots! Talk about a rollercoaster of emotions, I went from down in the dumps to King of the Hill in less than 5 minutes. Definitely a crazy ending to a great 2011 season.
19lbs., 10 3/16" beard, and 1.25" spurs
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Great bird congrats!!
Nice bird, congrats!
That's a good bird. Congrats.
congrats on a good bird :icon_thumright:
Congrats on a very nice gobbler.. :you_rock:
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Very nice going,congrats!!
Congrats!
Congrats!!!
:icon_thumright: Congrats!!
:happy0064: Congrats!
Great bird congrats!
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Congrats.. I tagged out on 4/19 in VA .. hope to make it to WV soon..
Glad you found him.
way to go. :fud: :newmascot:
Congrats!!
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Quote from: barry on April 26, 2011, 04:46:21 PM
Glad you found him.
I am too, don't like to shoot at them flying but after missing clean at 25 or so yrds. I had 2 try and redeem myself. I plain got lucky and know God was looking out 4 me on this one.