Last Friday, I got on the board with an Alabama Public Land gobbler.
Three days before, a bird busted me. I was sitting on top of a ridge after hearing him gobble a ways down the hill. I heard him walking just over the crest of the hill and had to turn 90deg right to face him. When he showed himself, I had to wait for him to get behind a tree and lean more to the right, making things awkward. I wanted him to get out of strut and get a little closer, but he caught a slight head movement and he was gone.
I decided on Friday that I would go back to the same area. After 5 days of hunting, putting a lot of miles on my legs, and only hearing a single gobble off the roost, I was feeling kinda lazy, so I didn't get out there until 8:45.
I hiked in and got to the area about 10:00. I sat at the top of a steep bottom that I figured they might be in to get out of the wind. This bottom has a knob at the top that makes it fork into two small ones. I didn't hear any response when I walked in, so I sat down on the other side of the knob from the bottom. I sat down and made some hen yelps and cuts with Jake yelps cutting her off and then staged a Jake fight. It wasn't even ten minutes before I heard steps just over the knob. I turn in the right direction and then I see red and white. Next thing I know, there are two gobblers strutting slowly to me. The one bird had a pure white head, so he was ready for action and I figured he was the head man. I had to wait a little bit for them to get closer and to get some distance between them, so I'd only hit one. Just as soon as they were positioned right, I shot the white-headed one.
19 lb
9 3/4" beard
1 1/8" spurs
A shout out to Gooserbat Calls for the OsS mouth call and Mac Calls for the aluminum in birdseye maple call that I used.
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Very nice gobbler,congrats!! :z-winnersmiley:
Thanks!
I'm certainly happy with him.
I had to carry him out over a mile, but the walk back was a good bit easier than I expected.
I guess I had a little extra spring in my step.
Congrats
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Nice bird. I like the pics.
Quote from: Bucktale on March 28, 2019, 01:34:57 PM
Nice bird. I like the pics.
Thanks. I have to give some credit to Cove/Dave. After watching him, I decided I need to put some effort into displaying what The Good Lord put into these birds.
Congrats! nice turkey
Well deserved trophy bro, congrats
Congrats. Way to stick with it!
Good deal !!!!
Congrats on a nice one
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Congrats
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Congrats nice pics.
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Congratulations
Nice
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Thanks, everybody.
It was a good time getting him, even if they were really quiet that week.
great job, I think sometimes we're better off hunting later. Especially if birds still have hens
Quote from: eggshell on April 01, 2019, 01:36:12 PM
great job, I think sometimes we're better off hunting later. Especially if birds still have hens
Yeah,
That's what I ended up deciding for the last couple days of that hunt, since I was pretty sure nobody else would go to that area and beat me to it.
I may have also been influenced by sleep deprivation from the days before.
Very nice Tom,congrats!! :happy0064: :happy0064: :happy0064:
congrats