End of Season Success
05-15-2007, 07:19 PM
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Fork Horn
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End of Season Success
Got another bird Saturday. It should have been my nephews but he couldn't get the shot. We have a few forrest fires going on down here in S.GA so it was very smokey. Birds didn't gobble at all, but I had been seeing one strutting with hens in the area for 2 weeks now. We set up under the tree where I shot my last bird and waited. At about 6:35 a bird came into the corner of the field, soon followed by 6 others. Then big boy came out. You could see his white head glowing through the smoke. I yelped a couple of times and he gobbled and began to strutt. The birds started running down the tree line to the corner of the field to my left. Next thing I know they are running down the tree line from the corner towards my decoy. I yelped again and he gobbled again and went intoa strutt. The bird was 10 yards out but my nephew couldn't get the shot. I hated to do it because he has never shot a longbeard but I could't let the bird go. We have hunted him hard for 2 weeks and finally got the opportunity 3 days before the season went out. I dropped him at 10 yrds. 10 1/2"beard, 18lbs, 1 1/4"left, 1" right. I will upload a picture shortly.
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