Been a tough start to the Missouri season. Hunted public near home 5 of the first 9 days before I had to work at 11am with no success. Birds have been showing little interest to calls, and not gobbling much after fly down.
Left last night for my 5 day vacation to my favorite southern MO reservoir to hunt public corps land around the lake with a buddy. Didn't even check in to the resort or dock the boat last night, but instead parked and slept near the spot we wanted to hunt in the a.m.
Didn't hear a thing at dawn, so I decided to make a move around 9am.
Drove a few ridges over, hopped out, quietly sneaked inside the woods and hit the Crystal Mistress. Boom! Bird fired off down the ridge below me.
Moved in another 40 yrds and set up. A little soft talk and leaf rustling and he appeared a few minutes later to my left at 30 yrds. He saw me turn my head as he stepped into my peripheral and turned to leave. Made some quick cuts on the mouth call to stop him, a quick swing of the gun to the left followed by a snap shot and the TSS #9 dropped him. Really nice heavy bird. 10"beard. 1 3/8ths spurs.
First bird with my new 870 20ga, and I managed to find some morels on the way out. Not a bad start to the vacation!(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/1aeff8031aa05888a7a5d90e11d0d2c5.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/05515eda343265baba065420dba724a1.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20190424/2a381510ff106f15a981bca9ace93f2b.jpg)
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I've gotta get up to Missouri! Congrats
Congrats that's a good'un there!
Awesome, congrats on a nice b bird
Congrats!
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Congrats on a good bird. Love that little 20, pretty sweet gun.
Congrats
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Nice. Congrats
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Nice bird! Im heading to northeast Missouri may 1st. Hope I can find one up there willing to play.
Congratulations and some great looking shrooms to go with it.
congratulations on a nice bird
nice bird and some tasty morrels to go with it.
Congrats, great bird and some tasty morels to boot.
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Good thing you shot that turkey. He was about to eat all of those mushrooms on the bed of your truck.
Nice job, man. :happy0064:
Great day, nice bird and got the side dish too
I wonder what your having for dinner??? :TooFunny: Great hunt and stud of a bird!!
Way to go! Good find on the morels too!
Congratulations.
Congrats
Nice score on the bird and Morels!!
Congratulations
Awesome job on a hard earned gobbler! Congratulations!
Congrats awesome turkey
congrats