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Well this wasnt a limb hanger but yoy sure couldnt tell Chris the guy who shot it that. This was his first turkey and it sure spoiled him. We spotted thre toms strutting under a giant live oak and decided before getting lunch to give em a quick call.The temp was over 90 we had been out all morning and we didnt have allot of enthusiasm that the birds would leave the shade of the oak some 400 yards away.

We set up in a half baked spot I hit the widowmaker paddle box with a couple of quick cutts while Greg yelp on the shipwreck.Three minutes later after a footrace between toms and jakes five jakes made it in first and Chris rolled this one

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Last year I set up to cold call in a good looking hardwood bottom. Right after I sat down and pulled on my mask, while reaching for my gloves, I yelped on a mouth-call. A loud mouth 2-year-old and his buddy came rushing in from behind a clump of trees. I had just enough time to grab my gun and put one of them down! Heck, my cushion wasn't even warm yet. The whole thing from the first yelp was about 30 seconds.

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My first 2 years I never took a bird,but in my third year it took about 5 min.on the second morning.First day I had no luck at all as the birds were just not gobbling at all.That night at supper at a local dinner,I meet a guy who ask how I was doing and then gave me permission to hunt what he called this loudmouth gobbler on his place.I had never been to his place before,but he drew me a map of where he thought I should set-up in the morning.I figured what the heck,I,ll give it a try.Next day I went in to where I thought he told me to go.As I was putting out a decoy ,a bird gobbled not a 100 yards from me! A second one soon joined in.Every time I would take a step in the dry leaves,they would gobble.About now I'm getting worked up myself.Got to my tree,and had barely got set-up when both of those longbeards flew down and landed not 30 yards from me!I just popped the gun up and took the closest one.Nice 2 year old.That farmer who invited me to hunt his place is now my best freind down there!

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Great Photo's Guys and story's ,
Here is the bird that I shot in NY last spring from the time I heard the first Gobble to the seeing the bird was about 10 minutes,He was roosted on the other side of a creek ,I was sitting near under him and could not even call,because I would give my self away. I waited him out untill flydown and when he hit the ground I started Cutting,with in a few minutes he was in front of me at 20 yards. Then I had to through the old Wad at him ...BT

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Last spring was my fastest and biggest bird. He got away the year before but it was just in the cards last spring. He was a true limbhanger and scored 73.5 was only 20# but had 1-1/2" spurs ....Total hunt time was 15 min. shot him at 6:45am

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I was walking along prospecting for gobbles when I got one to answer about 70 yards away. I didn't even move and in about a minute he appeared and I shot him standing up.

Ryan Tucker

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I have had a few quick hunts, but the fastest from the first gobble to kill was several years ago. After setting up and blind calling for about an hour due to no gobbling, I new I had to go to work soon and I have never been much of the sit and wait type. I started moving down a logging trail on top of a ridge. After calling a couple times about 100yds. or so apart, I decided to make another 100yds. and call from there. When I called from the logging road the next time I was cut off before I could even finish by three birds no more than 75yds. away in the thickest pine tree, undergrowt mess you could imagine (not at all where you would expect them). I hit the ground at the closest tree and yelped one more time. The three were on top of me within 30sec. and I had to wait a few seconds for one of them to clear from the line of fire or I would have killed two of them. The bird was a two yr old with a paint brush beard, 1" spurs, but only weighed in at 16.5 lbs.

Last season I killed a limb hanger, for me anyway, that had a little over 1.5" spurs, about 10 seconds after he flew down. I moved into position where I expected him to fly down, while he was gobbling from the limb. I set up about 75yds from the bird, close to the edge of a slew he was roosting over. I new they normally flew straight out and landed at the edge. The birds had gotten difficult to work because it was late season. They would gobble their heads off but I couldn't pull them in. So an ambush was the next best thing. Heavy leaf follage allowed me to move in as close as I did. I had no sooner than got set down when the bird and his 3 jake buddies flew down about 25yds. to my right and immediately headed my way in the knee high weeds. I had to wait until he was on top of me before I could verify which bird to shoot. An 8yd shot with a 3.5" Rem. 870 doesn't make a turkey's head too attractive, might have even lost a little weight. The whole hunt from the time I sat down to the time I shot was no more than 2 min.