Georgia season finished

[Sixes]

Bird #1 (3/27): Silent bird that came in a couple weeks back right before I was headed home. I had heard nothing all morning and everything just seemed dead. I was getting ready to go home due to work when I heard this bird start drumming and for me to hear one drumming, they have to be close. Sure enough, a few minutes later I heard it again and the bird stepped out about 25 yards from me.
2019turkey1 by Tim Hillhouse, on Flickr

Bird #2 (4-8): I killed this bird on the same property as the first one. Once again, crappy weather and no gobbling, I hunted several hours that morning burning a lot of boot leather with nothing to show. I was walking out on our main road to go get a bite when I saw this bird strutted on our gasline on the nest hill from where I was walking. I slipped back over the edge of the hill and sat down thinking that I will call and see if he wants to play and if not, I will try a sneak attack. First set of clucks on a trumpet and he cut me off. I waited a minute or so and called again and gobbled again and was in the dip between the hill he WAS on and the one I was on.  A few minutes later, he was at the edge of the woods and gasline about 30 yards from me. 4 hours of boredom followed by 10 minutes of bliss.

2019#2 by Tim Hillhouse, on Flickr


Bird #3 (4-21) My Dad and I left on Easter afternoon for a quick hunt on some land my uncle leases before I leave for Steinhatchee midweek for some inshore fishing and as luck would have it, I went to some hardwoods/pine bottoms and sat up on some fresh scratchings. On the first set of calls, I heard him cluck back in that hard gobbler cluck and a few minutes later, I could hear birds coming though the leaves and this one and another longbeard were high tailing it to me. I called again and this time, they both fired back so I kept on calling and they kept gobbling and hurrying to me like it was a foot race. I shot the one that won the race!

Anyway, that is a wrap for the season. Gobbling was off for me this year, some mornings they really hammered, but most morning they were quiet.

2019turk3 by Tim Hillhouse, on Flickr

[KentuckyHeadhunter]

Awesome job buddy!  We need to get together soon.  Go get some speckled trout at Steinhatchee now!

[Sir-diealot]

Congratulations to you.

[tomstopper]

Congrats

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[Sixes]

Awesome job buddy!  We need to get together soon.  Go get some speckled trout at Steinhatchee now!

No doubt about that, we live too close to not to get together.

[surehuntsalot]

congrats on a great season

[eddie234]

Very nice


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[Gooserbat]

Congratulations

[Spitten and drummen]

Good job buddy.

[Sixes]

Congratulations

Thanks. Your Tom Swatter helped

[shoer2]

Congratulations on great season.

[gergg]

Wow, great season, congrats.

[boomer]

Congrats

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[Harty]

Great season! Congrats

[Muzzy61]

Congrats.