Easter morning success

[3seasons]

Got another tough one on Easter morning. It was light enough to see at 5:55am my bird didn’t fly off of the roost until 8:30. He had two hens roosted with him, they raised cain for about 30 minutes until they landed in my lap well 6yds from my feet. They looked like a pair of mallards setting down on a decoy spread. I knew if he flew down he would probably do the same so I had my gun my shoulder ready for 2hrs. Funny thing was there was about 50 buzzards roosted in an oak about 60yds. away. He would gobble at them when they flew off the roost but wouldn’t even think of answering me so I stopped calling. Every time a buzzard would fly I thought it was him so my heart would skip a beat while I was waiting for him to sail in. I had to leave by 8:45 to be able to make it to church so about 8:20 I called one more time, nothing. About 10min. went by and I heard some noise on the side of the ridge, he stepped out at 25yds to my right and of course my barrel get hung in the blind(first time I’ve used a blind in years) finally got it out of the blind before he got to the woods. He was 19.2lbs., 10” beard, and a 3\4” and 1” spur.
As I was walking out between the field I was hunting and my truck was the MAN he was strutting in the road I don’t know how long his beard is but it is thick and long. I’m going to try to get him tomorrow. We saw a few during deer season with 11\4”+spurs there in there but they wont gobble. Is any one else having this problem.

[HuntnMa]

congrats on your Easter bird...........

[BowtechTurkeyHunter]

Wow nice turkey its awesome to have the turkeys fly into your spread ... as far as the leary gobblers you just ahve to pinpoint them ... they dont get that big by being predictable lol .... GL with the turkey tomorrow ...

Steve

[OleMissDuckHunter]

where bouts in MS you hunting? im up in oxford and i killed a jake with about a 6 inch beard on some public land up here on thursday. what part of the state you in?

[M00N]

Congratulations!

[huntn4bucks]

Congrats on another fine bird.

My brother-in-law and I have been chasing this one particular gobbler for 2 solid weeks now. He gobblers maybe 3-4 times on the roost and absolutely nothing when he hits the ground. We've seen him several times but just can't quite close the deal. He's a wise ole bird that's for sure.

[Born2Hunt]

Cool...........Gotta love Easter.

[Gus]

Congrats

[BamaTrophyHunter]

congratzs nice bird. They gobble a bunch here 10 or12 times in the tree and 3 or 4 on the ground

[beagleboy]

congrats

[dartonman]

Great pics, I love the stock on that gun of yours....congrads on a fine bird...al

[redbeard]

Congrats, that's a sure 'nuff killin' machine you're holdin'.

[Rhino]

Great job Scott...Congrats.

[okbowman]

Congrats!

[3seasons]

OleMiss, I live about 45 miles south of jackson, just outside of Brookhaven. I hunt in about 4 different counties around here though.