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The bad juju ambush bird
#3901069
04/24/23 07:39 PM
04/24/23 07:39 PM
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Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 10,645 Past Ol’ man Finley’s plac...
Southwood7
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Booner
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I killed a gobbler on 3/30…..and then over the course of the next 3 weeks turkeys shat on me in every way humanly possible. Mistakes were made, cuss words were said. If I thought a turkey was coming….. he was going away from me. If I felt like I should move, I should’ve sat still. Basically I was playing checkers and they were playing chess. And then Sunday the 23rd came. I got whooped again. Set up in the wrong spot…. Hens were between me and the gobbler and it was game over by 8am. I prospected around and then decided I was done around 9am. Before I left to get ready for church I went and grabbed a camera to move it to another location and when I topped a hill driving out I saw a BIG black turkey on the hill side about 350 yards away. I drove on out, parked and cut through the woods to get to a spot I thought I could get reasonably close and put eyes on him. I eased through the woods to the powerline and spotted him about 75 yards away. I was tucked in the shadows of the wood line and had a bunch of brush and limbs between us so I just stood there and watched him feed. I still wasn’t sure if it was a Jake or a gobbler but he finally turned and I saw he was a gobbler. It took him about 10 minutes or so to work in to range and the longer I watched him the the shakier I got. When he got to about 40 yards I pulled my shotgun up and waited on him to feed through a hole in the brush to get a shot. He fed through and raised his head up and put the red dot on his noggin and pulled the trigger. He folded up and then rolled down the hill. There’s a certain sense of panic that sets in when you aren’t sure if the momentum of your turkey is because of gravity or if he’s still alive lol Thankful this one was dead but I still sprinted to him to make sure. This was the first turkey I’ve ever killed standing up 😁 and one of the best I’ve ever killed. I really have no comment if the bad Juju is gone or not…it would be unwise for me to make a statement on that 😬😂
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4
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Re: The bad juju ambush bird
[Re: Southwood7]
#3901139
04/24/23 09:12 PM
04/24/23 09:12 PM
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Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 8,399
Atoler
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Feb 2013
Posts: 8,399
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Re: The bad juju ambush bird
[Re: Southwood7]
#3901171
04/24/23 10:40 PM
04/24/23 10:40 PM
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Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,852 AL
Gobble4me757
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,852
AL
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Congrats man! Great story!
2017 Team Aldeer Turkey Contest Champion 2018 Team Aldeer Turkey Contest Champion
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Re: The bad juju ambush bird
[Re: Southwood7]
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04/25/23 06:53 AM
04/25/23 06:53 AM
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Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 10,599 Central, Al
Bustinbeards
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 10,599
Central, Al
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Congratulations bud! That’s a mighty fine one!
Originally Posted By: Wiley Coyote Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here. On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
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Re: The bad juju ambush bird
[Re: Southwood7]
#3901237
04/25/23 07:42 AM
04/25/23 07:42 AM
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Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 2,775 Florida
jacannon
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Sep 2009
Posts: 2,775
Florida
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Congratulations Nice Bird...
Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
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Re: The bad juju ambush bird
[Re: Southwood7]
#3901501
04/25/23 04:12 PM
04/25/23 04:12 PM
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Joined: Apr 2015
Posts: 5,588 Lee County, Alabama
dBmV
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Apr 2015
Posts: 5,588
Lee County, Alabama
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Great bird. In my opinion the only bad ju-ju bird is a limb launch.
What you do today, you have to sleep with tonight.
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Re: The bad juju ambush bird
[Re: Southwood7]
#3901832
04/26/23 11:21 AM
04/26/23 11:21 AM
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Joined: May 2007
Posts: 1,463 Homewood
Colt1917
8 point
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8 point
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 1,463
Homewood
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Congrats! Sometimes standing up is your only shot. My one and only public land gobbler pitched down into a head high blackberry sticker bush patch in the middle of a gas line right of way that I was trying to cross. All I could do was stand there and wait for him to get close enough, which turned out to be about twelve steps!
Colt1917
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