SpurHunter
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I had one of those days that makes you take up spring fishing, yea, that kind of day.
Two weeks ago I had ten long beards all over my place strutting for my cameras. Fast forward to today, NONE of those birds were on all four cameras last week, in fact only heard one bird on the roost, it got killed by the neighbor after gobbling a whopping 8-9 times. That was all she wrote all day on the lease.
I gave up at 6 and headed home. I figured I would give my old honey hole a shot at AEDC.
I was happy to see my spot was vacant, the first good thing all day! After tearing out I quickly realized nobody would take this path, it hadn't been mowed in three years and was an impenetrable wall of briars halfway to my setup spot. I retreated after getting stuck and cut all over my body.
There is another way to get there but it's a long drive to the back door. I figured I had just enough time to try and roost a bird and hauled butt.
I slipped in, sat down and after a few minutes I called softly, I got a gobble back. I was expecting to hear one fly up but after ten minutes looked left and saw a gobbler strutting into my location. I let him get to about 50 yards and put him out of misery with a load of Nitros.
This is the best eastern I've ever killed, on public land no less. 20#, 11-1/16 beard and 1-1/4" SHARP spurs on both legs.
Sometimes it just works out.
Two weeks ago I had ten long beards all over my place strutting for my cameras. Fast forward to today, NONE of those birds were on all four cameras last week, in fact only heard one bird on the roost, it got killed by the neighbor after gobbling a whopping 8-9 times. That was all she wrote all day on the lease.
I gave up at 6 and headed home. I figured I would give my old honey hole a shot at AEDC.
I was happy to see my spot was vacant, the first good thing all day! After tearing out I quickly realized nobody would take this path, it hadn't been mowed in three years and was an impenetrable wall of briars halfway to my setup spot. I retreated after getting stuck and cut all over my body.
There is another way to get there but it's a long drive to the back door. I figured I had just enough time to try and roost a bird and hauled butt.
I slipped in, sat down and after a few minutes I called softly, I got a gobble back. I was expecting to hear one fly up but after ten minutes looked left and saw a gobbler strutting into my location. I let him get to about 50 yards and put him out of misery with a load of Nitros.
This is the best eastern I've ever killed, on public land no less. 20#, 11-1/16 beard and 1-1/4" SHARP spurs on both legs.
Sometimes it just works out.
