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"The suicide bird"
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03/01/17 07:08 AM
03/01/17 07:08 AM
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BhamFred
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Sep 2004
Posts: 37,110
alabama
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Ten er so years ago I was talking to a friend just before turkey season. He asked if I would mind taking his son to try and kill his first turkey. Be glad to I said. I assumed the son was old/big enough to actually hunt.... Mid season we agreed to meet before daylight and take said son to kill a bird. When I met them I was surprised to see a very smallish boy in camo get out of the truck. He was , I think, seven or eight and small statured. I'm thinking this is NOT going to be easy. I was right for the wrong reason(s). We went to a place I had that held birds usually. Didn't hear a thing. So we eased deeper into the property, almost to the river. There was a bird hammering across the river. It was late to move to a new area so we decided to try him. Let me lay out the scene. We were on a high bluff in a woods road that dropped off into a narrow bottom to our left. In front of us was the river, 50 yards wide. Running next to the river was a RR track. The bird was 150 yards past the RR track. Running from us to the bird was a powerline running down the hill across the river and RR track and up the hill the bird was on. LOTS of stuff to stop a bird from coming. We just kind of stood next to some trees and I started calling. Bird was answering pretty good, then flew down into the powerline up the hill across the river and RR tracks. He strutted and walked around...no hens so far. I laid down  some smack talk to him and he started our way, slowly coming down the hill. He reached the bottom, disappeared, the reappeared ON THE RR TRACKS...STILL STRUTTING. He moved to our left, kind of away from us. I really laid down on thet slate call, saying stuff I cannot repeat on here. Then I heard a train whistle, the bird gobbled, the train appeared from our right , bearing down on said strutting bird. It looked like the train was going to hit the still strutting bird, the engineer laid down on the horn...and at the last second the bird pitched off the track maybe 30 FEET. The train finally got by. The bird was still strutting on the gravel right-of-way. He hopped back onto the tracks and proceeded to strut more to our left and away. This lasted prolly thirty minutes and we heard a train whistle to our left. The train appeared and approached the still strutting bird. Same as before it appeared that the train would hit the bird. At the last second, I mean 20 FEET, the bird pitched off the tracks, over the river, and landed maybe 100 yards from us downhill in the woods road. I sat the boy down on the edge of the powerline, maybe a 20 yard shot if the bird came up the old road. I backed up 30 yards and sat down. Dad sat right behind the boy. I hit the slate and the bird gobbled just across the powerline, coming in good. I got a lil softer on the call and 30 seconds later the boy shoots...once...dad yells and I'm on my feet. Kid killed the bird graveyard dead at ten steps!!!  I was astounded we killed that bird, a nice three year old gobbler. The kid was too small to carry the bird, though he wanted to and did try. The bird was big and the kid didn't look a lot bigger.!!!! As fine a morning as a man could ask for... won't be long now....
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: "The suicide bird"
[Re: BhamFred]
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03/01/17 09:23 AM
03/01/17 09:23 AM
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crockrj
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Re: "The suicide bird"
[Re: BhamFred]
#2043677
03/01/17 10:28 AM
03/01/17 10:28 AM
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Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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Booner
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,521
Sylacauga, AL
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Another great story from Troy! I was 10 when my dad called one across the Cahaba River and I missed him. I had never killed a turkey before and was beyond excited. Then my dad missed him 3 times as he ran away.
He was kinda disgusted with my shooting after that, and from then on he usually just put me out somewhere to try to call one myself. I got my first gobbler the next season. It took me years to understand what a feat he had accomplished by getting that bird to fly across the river.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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