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06-15-2003 | 06:44 AM

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huntnma

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From: palm bay fl

RE: First time

i didn' t see a gobbler the first couple of season' s i hunted...the first gobbler i ever saw was my first harvest......talk about awesome......my sister took me in with her, her gun, her tag, she said if a gobbler comes in then it' s mine, but there was a catch , it couldn' t be a longbeard....well i' m sitting there and all of a sudden, bahlalalalala, i about died.....then i heard him spittin' and drummin' ....i knew he was coming up quick and would be coming up on my side, sis said noooooooo, well her being the expert i aimed my gun her way, about that time he stood right next to me, not kidding 3 feet and gobbled, i really don' t know how i didn' t jump right out of our blind, scared me to death, so i waited til he was gone, tried to get a shot but he wandered off , he got about 60 yards away and she called him back, i couldn' t see him, then i saw this red head pop out from the palmetto and she said take him, so i did

i ran up to him and he was a nice bird.....his stats were 17.5lbs, 10 3/8 and the spurs were both over an inch, a trophy tree hanger for sure.....the beard didn' t look that long thank God or she would of made me give the gun to her....i got spured in the hand by a dead bird..lol...then i fell backwards with him as i was walking out....lol.....it was a classic hunt....my very first hunt, all i did was sit there in the dark PRAYING for daylight, i was soooooooooooo scared........it was so fricking dark and i had never been in the woods in the dark by myself before...sis was 25 yards away , but she wasn' t close enough......

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