El Gobblero is deado!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bowtech_archer07]

Well, opening morning, opening hour of my turkey season, and I killed out. Here is the story. I was walking down a gravel road through a creek bottom to get to the other side to hunt. As I was walking down, 2 birds gobbled. I hurried up the other side, set out my decoys and got set up. The birds did not want to answer me, but were shock gobbling and eventually I heard 5 birds total on the ridge to the west and heard a couple of hens too. I knew the birds were henned up as a guy had hunted this farm this past week and had trouble with that. I began trying to call to the hen, but she was having none of it. Eventually I got her worked up and she started cackling and that made those gobblers fire up to the West. Then I heard a gobble to the East. I was in perfect position, between 2 gobbling birds. Well, I kept aggravating the hen and cutting her off and getting fairly aggressive and then I looked up and saw a different hen in the field to the East, I knew the gobbler wouldn't be far behind. I layed my call down and got ready, and saw him. He was in full strut and was spitting and drumming. The hen was walking straight toward me, and I was tasting turkey. Then the hen turned and walked in the timber behind me. The gobbler came to the same spot and balked, then gobbled 4 times in my face and started spitting and drumming. It was amazing Then he turned and started heading south. Well I waited until he was 30 or 40 yards away, picked up my call and gave a few yelps. About 2 minutes later I heard walking, and here was the hen. She had not moved from behind me and came out into a finger of the field south of me. Then I saw movement to the west of her and it was the hen that I had been calling to earlier in the morning. She had finally come up to see what the fuss was about. I looked back again and there was the gobbler. He was in full strut and still spitting and drumming. The hens came out to my decoys, and he walked by at 35 yards strutting. The hens balked a little bit at my dekes for whatever reason, he broke strut into a half strut and poked his head out from behind the little bit of brush that was seperating my Mossberg 500 12 ga. and a load of 3 in. Remington Nitro #5's from smacking him upside the beak. I let it fly and my aim was true. I hadn't been in the timber but a little over an hour. I shot him at about 6:45. He weighed 22 lbs, my heaviest bird ever, had a 9.5 inch beard and 7/8 in. spurs. I was sitting at the same tree where last year I killed a double beard of 10" and 3" with 1" spurs and 3 years ago, I killed a triple bearded jake out of this same spot, about 20 yards south of where I sat up today and last year.

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[clrj3514]

way to go Kyle! Thats a NICE bird

[TennesseeTurkey]

WTG Kyle! I killed a bird that had a beard that looked exzactly like yours last year

[Shaun_300]

Right on Kyle! Congrats on the bird.

[Rhino]

Congrats. Great hunt! Love those drummin turkeys.

[fly]

Great looking bird you got there.
Congratulations!

[pointing_dogs_rule]

congrats!!!!!!!

good luck to all
the dog

[92xj]

Ive seen bigger




















jk, congrats dude!!! I am jealous

[Bowtech_archer07]

Ive seen bigger




















jk, congrats dude!!! I am jealous

So have I.. the first longbeard I killed!!! LOL thanks everybody! I am proud of him, that's for sure!!

[3seasons]

congrats, that is a paint brush

[Flintlock1776]

Ive seen bigger

Me too, but then I woke up


Nice bird!

[USAFbowhunter]

Congrats on a great bird!!!!

[chaseasl]

congrats

[Jorden]

Very nice job, great bird

[ccwhitey]

Congrats on the bird kyle. I know that you beat me but what did yours score again. Mine scored roughly 49. I wager you again about this weekend just for bragging rights though.