Cold and Wet in South Carolina
03-18-2005, 08:41 AM
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Cold and Wet in South Carolina
Man, it was cold yesterday morning. But I did manage to take a nice 2 year old. He was strutting about 10 hens and had a brother with him. He weighed 18.2 lbs, 10 1/4 inch beard and a 1 inch spur and 3/4 inch spur.
The weather was terrible, but I had a good time. The first morning I had a bird coming on a string in front of me when 3 gobblers came in silent on my right and a little behind me. One of them was strutting and drumming so when they went behind a tree I tried to move my gun over. I got it caught up in a vine I didn't notice. They spooked and the alarms sounds they made kept the other gobbler from finishing. Other than that I called in a lot of hens, and had some hens and gobblers at about 85 yards in a down pour the second morning, but they didn't like my decoy.
It was a cold, wet but good start to the season.
The weather was terrible, but I had a good time. The first morning I had a bird coming on a string in front of me when 3 gobblers came in silent on my right and a little behind me. One of them was strutting and drumming so when they went behind a tree I tried to move my gun over. I got it caught up in a vine I didn't notice. They spooked and the alarms sounds they made kept the other gobbler from finishing. Other than that I called in a lot of hens, and had some hens and gobblers at about 85 yards in a down pour the second morning, but they didn't like my decoy.
It was a cold, wet but good start to the season.
