I'm done for the season here in Ga. Just killed number 3.

I didn't hear a peep this morning so I set up down in the swamp and called sporadically until around 8:45 when i heard a distant gobble rt. after i had kee kee'd. I just kept it up and wound up calling in 6 longbeard's. I shot what I think was the dominant bird of the group. He was the only one strutting and gobbling. I bet it took him 20 min. to close from 50 to 30 yds. and the whole time the rest of the crew just kind of hung behind him. At 30 yds. he got a case of lead poisoning (actually Hevi 13 7's- lol) and went to flopping. Man is he a mess. The rain we had over the wk. end left a lot of puddles in the swamp and he wound up flopping rt. in one of em. He's a nice bird as are all of the birds we've shot lately. Here's the stats.

22 lbs. 14 oz.
11" beard
spurs 1 1/16" and 1 1/8"


I'll post pic's later. What a mess!! lol

NWTF score- 66.75

Keep after em Pope. It'll happen.

Dan