First of the year!!!

[runngun]

On March 28, I was hunting a clear cut that I knew held turkeys even though I had not heard anything since our opening day of March 23. Got in there early and put out an "UGLY" hen decoy (you know the foam type)  about thirty yards away, got set up in the middle of a clump of privet, so I settled in. At daylight I hear the hens going crazy in the woodline about 300 yards away, then I hear a gobble. So I start trying to aggravate the hens by doing everything they would do, even louder. The gobbler would answer. He must have gobbled 75 times. Then it happened, they all flew down. I see five hens and a jake, I cut my eyes to the left and he just appeared in full stut at 40 yards and he strutted right up to that ugly decoy, I purr and yelp softly on my mouth call and he gobbles and struts some more. I could not take any more so I "putt" and he comes to half strut and sticks his old head right up. I shot him at 30 yards with my Browning 10 gauge. The only calls I used were an old Preston Pittman box and Houndstooth cutter style call. Houndstooth ROCKS!!! He had an 11.25 inch beard, 1.25 spurs and weighed in at 19.5 pounds!!!






I hope this works cause I ain't real swift on the computer, this is my first attempt at posting pictures.

[alclark2]

Pictures worked and nice bird. Congrats! Nice hooks on that dude.

[tomstopper]

Good looking bird.Congrats......

[DirtNap647]

congrats way to go

[boomer]

Congrats!!!

[Mike Honcho]

Congratulations...pictures and story were great...thanks for sharing!
Nice tom!

[captin_hook]

Nice. He's a good one.

[alloutdoors]

Nice one, congrats!

[renegade19]

 

[Shakey Jake]

Awesome tom! Congrats!

[Gooserbat]

Good bird for sure.

[Wrangler95]

 


Very nice gobbler,congrats!

[beagler]

Congrats!

[Gold Spur]

Awesome bird!

[slamman]

congrats nice bird.