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Broke my four year dry spell
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03/28/20 06:10 PM
03/28/20 06:10 PM
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Joined: May 2007
Posts: 1,463
Homewood
Colt1917
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8 point
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8 point
Joined: May 2007
Posts: 1,463
Homewood
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Got to lease late at about 6:40 for my third hunt of season and so had to park truck about a mile from my spot to keep from disturbing another member. A little before 8 I heard one faint gobble about a quarter mile down the mountain below and west of me. I hustled back down the trail to a food plot that was close to where I thought I'd heard the gobble, and where I have a game camera set up (more on camera later). I was about to yelp on a box call when I heard a cluck that had just a trace of a gobble to it, and it had to be well inside 100 yards.
so I got set up on a tree where I had a view of the trail below me and the about a third of the food plot to my right. I did some very soft purring and even softer yelping on a slate call and put it down. About a minute later here comes a trio of two year olds walking up the trail and they walk onto the food plot where they're mostly shielded by a thicket. I get set up for them to cross the top end of the food plot where I'd have a shot, and the first one is walking too fast. Then #2 stops for one second and pokes his head up as high as he can, when I shot him and he went right down flopping. Of course the other two are jumping up in the air and going batchit crazy which is always funny to watch. When I finally got up to walk on the field they both took off like a space shuttle.
I had figured the shot was 25 or 30 yards at most, but it turned out to be 45! My 20 gauge with #7 TSS flat out did a number on that bird. I swapped out the SD card on the camera, figuring I'd have the whole thing on it, and then humped the bird up a pretty steep mountain and back to the truck a mile away. Turns out the SD card was empty and I probably should have formatted it instead of just deleting content. Anyway, a long four year dry spell has ended. Not my personal best by any means but 8.5" beard and 1" spurs. I'll take it!
Colt1917
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Re: Broke my four year dry spell
[Re: Orion34]
#3083412
03/29/20 10:57 AM
03/29/20 10:57 AM
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Joined: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,918
Montgomery,al,usa
Davyalabama
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Feb 2019
Posts: 3,918
Montgomery,al,usa
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Congrats and here’s to the start of a streak of successful hunts! . That is exactly what I was thinking, and new streak has been born! Congratulations!!!!!!
Last edited by Davyalabama; 03/29/20 10:58 AM.
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