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Mike,sounds like you had a great season my friend.Huntin them fall longbeards has got to be the greatest challenge there is.Come on Spring!

"Any fool can kill a lovelorn old gobbler in the spring. The true test of a turkey hunter is his ability to deal with them in the fall." - Henry Edwards Davis, the author of American Wild Turkey (1949), a book many still consider to be the finest ever written on turkey hunting.

Ain't that the truth?

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Mike, better luck next year!! My money is on you buddy!!(wink)<img src=icon_smile_approve.gif border=0 align=middle>

&quot;Spring Season....the Best&quot;!!!

Mike I agree with Paul!Your persistance will eventually pay-off on one of those fall monarchs!I'll tell you when those big boys aren't concentrating on the ladies it makes for one of the greatest challenges presented to the hunter in harvesting a fall longbeard.Although I look forward to those early spring morning gobbles the fall to me is so underestimated in what it has to offer to the turkey hunter.Strategies may change some, and the strutting and gobbling may be left out in most cases but the challenge,the planning,the scouting,and making those right decisions with calls and set-ups still are present when the leaves are fallin.The best part about the fall season is in many cases your the only one out there!As you can tell by the # of posts most fellers are still chasin deer,ducks, and pheasants,and hey thats ok with me,I'll take the turks!!!Here in my own local what little land we have thats public and has turkeys inhabiting it,the fall is really the only realistic time that you have to get a shot at them as in the spring there's a hunter behind every bush.I feel for those states that dont have a fall season because in my mind there definately missing out!Happy Holidays all!!!

Monarch isn't a butterfly it's the King of the Spring!

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Sorry for bringing these past posts up, but this is all we have of our buddy Mike!!

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The man definitely had a God given talent for writing and telling a story. Thanks Maytom!