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Joined: Jan 2014
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I met matthewgentry this morning, we had come up with a decent plan for some birds we had been on before earlier in the year. I struck out down the roadway toward a creek where I had been hearing a couple birds gobbling before but had yet to try this year. Sure enough he was right along the creek, but there wasn't any way to get very close to him on the roost.I decided to try a big loop around him to get on the creek bottom above him. Made the loop and setup just to hear him a good bit farther down than I had hoped. After just a minute i went against my better judgement and decided to ease back toward him. As I was walking down the roadway that runs parallel to the creek I happened to catch a glimpse of his fan along the creek below me. He was not but about 75-80 yards away, and after a few minutes I decided to try and crawl to the edge of the hill. It probably took about 20 minutes for me to cover the 20 yards or so to the edge of the hill, as he strutted for his lady friends with him. After he bred both of them and they began to feed off up the creek I figured it was now or never, so I gave him one yelp. He instantly gobbled and turned my way. After just a second he had made it to the creek edge and I found a small hole to shoot through. The tss knocked him cold at about 40 yards. He was by far my biggest bird ever with 2 11 1/8 inch beards, 1 1/8 spurs and 18lbs 11 oz.   The crazy part came as I started packing him back up the long road to the truck. I was sending a text to a guy as I neared a mud hole when I noticed something you just don't see every day in Alabama.  After matthewgentry got back to the truck I found out that he had a nice close encounter with a decent size black bear. The bear had walked the same road I went in on apparently just after I went through and then wound up just behind Matt as he was on a turkey. It was definitely not what I expected to find on the way out.
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Talking Turkey
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Stud of a bird congrats! You can keep the bears. 
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Doesn’t Know His Code
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Doesn’t Know His Code
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IKNOWMYPHUCKINGCODEDAMMITYOUDICKHEAD!!!
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Not what I expected to see coming through the woods this morning! That's the 1st time I've heard a bear "woof" and I have to say it got pretty intense for a few minutes
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4 point
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Was in northern cleburne county.
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Congrats...
Wait to after the turkey contest before you become bear scat ...
WAR EAGLE !!!
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Heck of a bird man, congrats and keep them beats up there with y'all
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Mr. Turkey
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Mr. Turkey
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Congrats. That's some serious beardage right there!
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Yeah I've always said I'd mount a double beard if I shot one so I guess I just got myself a taxidermy bill.
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Two grown man beards at that! Stud.
"The future's uncertain and the end is always near"
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Boo Boo Head
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That a way to keep team 3 going pal!
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Doesn’t Know His Code
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I knew there were a few bruins in this area but I've never seen any real sign of them.
IKNOWMYPHUCKINGCODEDAMMITYOUDICKHEAD!!!
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To God Be The Glory!
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I keep expecting to see a bear every time I hunt the National Forest but I haven't yet. I'm sure it's just a matter of time til it happens.
"When there was no fowl, we ate crawdad, when there was no crawdad, we ate sand."
"YOU ATE SAND!" - Raising Arizona
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Booner
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Heck of a bird, congrats!
X2 on the you can keep the bears though
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Congrats! Both of the beards being that size is pretty unique.
When I worked that area from 2006-2013, I had a rec lease president with some bear pics on camera. They had also left a Pepsi half full in a shooting house once, and the bear did some damage to the house - so the story goes. They've been in that area for a while.
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I found some tracks about 6-7 years ago round about the same area you are in. Wouldn't happen to be close to Borden Springs would it? Been a bear or two popping up on trail cams in the area for the past decade or so..
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Yeah it is. I text a guy that said they had it on trail cams a few times up there.
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Yeah it is. I text a guy that said they had it on trail cams a few times up there. You probably know the fella I'm talking about. First name Oscar - you met him?
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Nah I haven't. Only know a couple guys from up that way. It could easily be the same people but I wouldn't know.
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