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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.

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Wow Gobb! that ought to be a record! under a minute!
my shortest was last spring. from the time of his first gobble
to the shot lasted about 20 minutes.

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Great stories. I shouldn't be reading this stuff.

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Several years ago, a surgeon/turkey hunting buddy of mine was telling me about a day in the O.R. where the surgical team was talking about turkey hunting and opening day the comming weekend while scrubbing up. They had talked about how tough it was to kill one and all that could go comically wrong. The Anesthetist was from Central America and asked what this "turkey" was and how to hunt one. He said that he owned about 100 acres fairly close by in a river bottom and figured he had some on his land. Well they told him the basics of how to roost a bird, set up on him, and basic calling. He didn't offer to take anyone with him, so they left him to his first hard lesson in humility. Well, Monday Morning came around and the conversation turned to all the "one that got away" stories of the previous weekend when the Anes. showed up. They asked him how his weekend went and, in his broken english, he replied "No challenge! I did what you told me. He gobbled, I called, he came, I shot, it was over. I don't see what the big deal is. I won't go back--no fun." So, I guess what I'm saying is that while I got a bird one day last year before I could sit down good, I didn't have time to enjoy the hunt. Its a good memory and a short sweet story, but I still love the chase!

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..20 minutes total,22 pound 1 5/8 spurs 11 1/2 inch beard....:)..

..JESUS IS COMING BACK BE READY...

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I've got a couple stories. Myself, I'd watched some birds while scouting strutting in the middle of this horse pasture. There was one lone tree out in the middle with a little brush around it and the birds hung out around it. In the dark I snuck out and set up by the tree. One gobbler sounded off from the hill on the south edge of the pasture. I had two hens fly in and give my decoy hell. When the tom flew in, the hens headed straight to him, but I never gave them time to lead him away. He was only on the ground for about 5 seconds before I put him down for good. The other, my son and I hunted all morning without getting one all the way in. Things seemed dead where we were so we moved to another farm. By the time we got set up we only had 35 minutes left. Ten minutes later my son was picking up his bird. We called six jakes into the other edge of the field. Four of them came like we were reeling them in. One of them strutted back and forth the whole way across. Needless to say he was pretty excited.

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Great stories fellas!I'll take one of last years hunts that fits the question here!We had been working a bird for about 20 minutes and finally convinced the ole boy he had better come in and check the ole girl out that was making all that swwet music and my hunting partner put the hammer on him at about 20 yards.The whole time we were working this particular bird I could hear another bird off in the distance closing in.I could easily tell my partner had made a nice shot,so I told him hey just wait a second before we get up and lets see what this other bird is gonna do.No sooner had I suggested that then this bird gobbles less than a 100 yards away.I called to him with my mouth yelper and your exactly right Gobbcaller a 2 year old came in on a dead sprint.I pounded him at about 20 yards also,and he was only about 10 yards from where the other bird was laying.Total time of the hunt less then 25 minutes for two gobblers.So that equals out to about 12 and a half minutes a bird. <img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>Still not as fast as yours GC,but with equal results and little longer fun!:)Cool question my friend.<img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

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I can't beat 30 seconds but my pictures of my dad's quicky shows how his was at first light because the pictures are so dark. I think we were done at 6:45 AM. They even came in silent after just four calls on my slate.

Lefty Llewellyn

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Last spring, I took my buddy on his first turkey hunt. Last about 20 minutes total from the time we heard the first gobble until he shot. Not a giant bird, but I hooked him on turkey hunting. When it was all over, he looked at me and said, 'This is just like on the videos, this is easy.'

He'll learn...

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04/21/2001 Located him with a crow call from the roost. The previous weekend my cousin (Buckoduck) and I had chased this Tom all over our lease and then blew it at the last second. This weekend I was alone (cuz couldn't make it) and I had already decided I would set up and just wait him out. If you remember, last spring was after the huge ice storm we had here in southern AR and our trail was folded over. I had to get to my location through the thicket after he gobbled. Kept hitting him with the crow call once in a while. When he quit answering I knew he was on the ground. I finally busted through the briars and got to the place I had decided to set up. I dropped my seat off at the tree, put out the two decoys, got back to the tree, sat down and chalked my turtle shell call, put diaphram in my mouth, put gun on my knee, raised my mask, looked up and there he was walking out of the thicket. I let him walk out a few yards and shot him. Ran down the hill to him and checked my watch; 6:32AM.

Time from his first gobble: ~20 minutes
Time from me calling him: never got the chance to call.
He never gobbled again after flydown.

19 lbs • 10.5&quot; beard • 1-1/8&quot; spurs
Age: 4+ yrs (according to NWTF spur chart)

Romans 8:28