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by Mbrock. 04/28/24 09:16 PM
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Re: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: Blong]
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01/27/14 04:09 PM
01/27/14 04:09 PM
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alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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thats just because ya'll ain't hunted Wilcox Co..
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: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: LUMPY]
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01/27/14 04:16 PM
01/27/14 04:16 PM
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North Alabama
YEKRUT
Turkey Nut
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Turkey Nut
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They are all hard for me! You are speaking the truth, I think they hate you. 
Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. —Archibald Rutledge—
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Re: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: MTeague]
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01/27/14 04:16 PM
01/27/14 04:16 PM
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Hartselle Al.
n2deer
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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They have to be toward the top.
Do you want to hear him gobble, or do you want to kill him.
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Re: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: Blong]
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01/27/14 07:04 PM
01/27/14 07:04 PM
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Cantonment,Fl
hyco
6 point
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6 point
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Cantonment,Fl
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Alabama and Florida birds are the toughest. I think it's because there are more hunters down here. Southern Indiana birds don't gobble they yell get ready here I come. It was nice before they started leasing out the reclaimed mines...
take your kids hunting and you won't be hunting your kids
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Re: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: BhamFred]
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01/27/14 08:49 PM
01/27/14 08:49 PM
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Pine Hill, Al
Todd1700
12 point
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thats just because ya'll ain't hunted Wilcox Co.. I have. I live there.
The best index to a person’s character is (a) how he treats people who can’t do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can’t fight back.
- Abigail van Buren
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Re: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: Todd1700]
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01/28/14 12:15 AM
01/28/14 12:15 AM
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alabama
BhamFred
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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alabama
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thats just because ya'll ain't hunted Wilcox Co.. I have. I live there. then you know the truth about which turkeys are the toughest...
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: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: Blong]
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01/28/14 04:18 AM
01/28/14 04:18 AM
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Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
Booner
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Booner
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I've hunted them in 9 states, and still think the most difficult place for me to kill a turkey is 10 miles from my house on the Coosa WMA. Its 30,000 acres of vertical cutover. There's only a few places where a turkey can possibly survive, and all the hunters are lined up in them. You hear a turkey gobble and think he's pretty close, I can be there and set up in 5 minutes. 2 hours later you finally get close enough to call, and you are cut up and bleeding and probably have a couple of broken bones. Then one yelp and the turkey flies a half mile in the other direction. Its a frustrating place to hunt. Wilcox Co birds are stupid compared to them. 
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: Blong]
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01/28/14 06:40 AM
01/28/14 06:40 AM
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Huntsville
JUGHEAD
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Huntsville
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Just like always....folks are scared to death that BhamFred is gonna whip their arse if they question him on anything so I have to step up. What a bunch of WIMPS!!!! He is just an old, grumpy fart. Nothing to fear.  Seriously though Troy and Todd...I am curious. What makes the Wilcox County birds so tough? I haven't hunted enough places to have any kind of opinion whatsoever. Love hearing any and all of you veterans' opinions on any and everything turkey related. I'll hang up and listen....
Last edited by JUGHEAD; 01/28/14 06:42 AM.
"The only reason I shoot a 3.5" shell for turkeys is because they don't make a 4" one." - t123winters
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Re: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: JUGHEAD]
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01/28/14 09:29 AM
01/28/14 09:29 AM
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Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
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Just like always....folks are scared to death that BhamFred is gonna whip their arse if they question him on anything so I have to step up. What a bunch of WIMPS!!!! He is just an old, grumpy fart. Nothing to fear. Seriously though Troy and Todd...I am curious. What makes the Wilcox County birds so tough? I haven't hunted enough places to have any kind of opinion whatsoever. Love hearing any and all of you veterans' opinions on any and everything turkey related. I'll hang up and listen.... There is no significant amount of public land in Wilcox Co anymore, so a lot depends on where you are in the county. On some of the big plantations that have little pressure, they are as easy as turkeys anywhere in the state. Even the smaller tracts can have easy turkeys on them. I killed my biggest gobbler on my uncle's place in Wilcox Co and he was also the easiest. Made one call to him, and he flew 200 yards and lit in gun range. Hunt was over less than a minute after I set up. Back in the 60s, there was a lot of public land and there was an area called the Hills that stretched for miles and was wide open. There were some tough birds in there, but even as a HS kid I always managed to kill some. That's what Troy is thinking about - he thinks it is 1965.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: Blong]
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01/28/14 01:29 PM
01/28/14 01:29 PM
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Tuscaloosa Co.
N2TRKYS
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Booner
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I never hunted Wilcox County, but I loved hunting Monroe County. They have a pile of birds in that area. I killed 3 turkeys at my club one year and every one had multiple beards.
83% of all statistics are made up.
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Re: Toughest turkeys on earth?
[Re: BrentM]
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01/28/14 01:37 PM
01/28/14 01:37 PM
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Parts Unknown
Cletus
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Wilcox County people kinda look down on the rest of us because that is one part of Alabama that always had turkeys even during the dark old days when most of the rest of the state didn't have any.
Far as I know, they are all pure-bred Alabama turkeys and not transplants like much of the rest of the state......... And they represent a couple hundred generations of turkeys that have been fooled with and called to by some pretty talented turkey hunters. Therefore they are genetically superior to the rest of the state's population.
That's the way folks down there see it anyway. Kinda like texans that think all their stuff is better than your stuff just cause it's from Texas.
I wouldn't know I've never hunted down there but I have a good friend that used to live down there and he says they are definately tougher than Jackson county turkeys. Good thing they don't hunt Clarke Co.......that's where the population was the greatest in the dark day as I understand....and where repopulation efforts focused the trapping efforts mainly.
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