RE: Official Team 17 "Strut Stoppers" Thread
I sent the details to Rory in a pm Saturday.
the turkey weighed 19.5, 10.75 beard, 1.25 spur, and 1.1875 spur,
killed in Gadsden County, north Florida, with Mossberg 835 Ultimag 3.5 inch #5's, i sat in my Bighouse blind for 9 hours last wednesday, calling occasionally, was very windy, no turkeys, no gobbles...bad weather...warm and blustery...but i knew there were turks around...came back Thurs morn at 9:15, sat til 11am calling loud and occasionally, heard a Pfft vooom...looked out the mesh window in front, had cut a slit for my gun barrel, he was at 15 yards in half strut looking hard and drumming...
I eased the muzzle out of the slit, rushed the shot, think i missed 1st shot, or maybea nick...bird jumps and flies to 10 oclock my left, I stood up, rotated the barrel in that slit while he flew away, pulled the trigger ..he was about 35-40 yards flying away from me...he dropped like a rock after that shot, flopped a bit..i am a patient hunter, but 11 hours is a lot of sitting...they just havent been gobbling over there where i hunt...and thatw asnt your classic hunt...but, oh well, the job got done...