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Signed out for a good area this morning and only one other guy was in there who is a pal of mine. We talked and he wasn't going anywhere close to where I wanted to go....perfect. Got to the parking area just right and eased out to my first little listening spot and got my gloves on. I gave a one note owl hoot and a bird answered not 150 yards away, not too far off the fence. I started easing into the woods, without getting any closer to him, to try and find a place to setup. While slipping in I bumped a bird off the roost. I knew immediately what I had just walked up on....I'm standing under his hens and he's just over the hill close by. I've been there and done this a few times and decided I needed to gamble just a little. It was still pretty dark and some fog had rolled in so I eased about 40 yards closer to the bird before setting up, hoping I could get to him before he got to the hens or they got to him. He gobbled probably 5 more times on his own while I was sneaking in and I got sat down just fine and got my slate call out and put my favorite purring/clucking mouth call in. I no more got my gun up and I heard him pitch out over there. I figured I better hurry up and let him know I was there so I purred real soft at him on my mouth call and gave him a 2 note yelp and he gobbled, but was up at the fence up the hill from me. I shut up and spun around on the tree a little bit toward him and started the search looking for him to show up through the fog and foliage. I didn't see or hear anything for a couple of minutes and then I started hearing him drum straight out in front of me, 45 degrees from where my gun was pointed....crap! I kept still and finally saw him at about 50 yards strutting and drumming. The fog kept rolling in and out and I would lose him for a few seconds and then pick him up again. He went behind a huge pine tree and I eased my gun around toward him and got down on my sight. I had a lane to him a couple of times as he was strutting to me but it was still dark, foggy, and thick enough that it was hard to get on his head. I eventually had to let him come on in to 31 yards and get to a good lane and I just shot him while he was strutting and rolled him! He never even flinched. Exciting hunt!!!! Thank the Lord once again...no idea why I've been so blessed this year but I'm truly grateful!!! 17 lb. 12 oz. 1" & 1 1/16" sharp spurs 9 3/8" beard 
Last edited by JUGHEAD; 04/05/12 08:51 PM.
"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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Signed out for a good area this morning and only one other guy was in there who is a pal of mine. We talked and he wasn't going anywhere close to where I wanted to go....perfect. Got to the parking area just right and eased out to my first little listening spot and got my gloves on. I gave a one note owl hoot and a bird answered not 150 yards away, not too far off the fence. I started easing into the woods, without getting any closer to him, to try and find a place to setup. While slipping in I bumped a bird off the roost. I knew immediately what I had just walked up on....I'm standing under his hens and he's just over the hill close by. I've been there and done this a few times and decided I needed to gamble just a little. It was still pretty dark and some fog had rolled in so I eased about 40 yards closer to the bird before setting up, hoping I could get to him before he got to the hens or they got to him. He gobbled probably 5 more times on his own while I was sneaking in and I got sat down just fine and got my slate call out and put my favorite purring/clucking mouth call in. I no more got my gun up and I heard him pitch out over there. I figured I better hurry up and let him know I was there so I purred real soft at him on my mouth call and gave him a 2 note yelp and he gobbled, but was up at the fence up the hill from me. I shut up and spun around on the tree a little bit toward him and started the search looking for him to show up through the fog and foliage. I didn't see or hear anything for a couple of minutes and then I started hearing him drum straight out in front of me, 45 degrees from where my gun was pointed....crap! I kept still and finally saw him at about 50 yards strutting and drumming. The fog kept rolling in and out and I would lose him for a few seconds and then pick him up again. He went behind a huge pine tree and I eased my gun around toward him and got down on my sight. I had a lane to him a couple of times as he was strutting to me but it was still dark, foggy, and thick enough that it was hard to get on his head. I eventually had to let him come on in to 31 yards and get to a good lane and I just shot him while he was strutting and rolled him! He never even flinched. Exciting hunt!!!! Thank the Lord once again...no idea why I've been so blessed this year but I'm truly grateful!!!
17 lb. 12 oz.
1" sharp spurs
9" beard (might have strands longer....think the guy who measured it only measured to where most of the strands were)
Will post pics this evening.
Nice! Congrats Team mate.
Turkeys be damned.
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"Just remember a gobbler has to win every time, you only have to win once"
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Congrats on another one! Keep putting it on them!
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You should be ashamed hunting turkeys inside a fence.  Congrats, Chad!
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Sounds like hunting deer in a fence to me. congrats again man.
Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. —Archibald Rutledge—
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Way to go Jughead! Your stacking em up this year!
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Congrats! But does aldeer approve of hunting turkeys inside a high fence? 
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Grow, hold, and harvest..
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Fenced or not, there ain't too many people that catch on and kill turkeyS consistently their first 2 years. Congrats EL NATURELL!
This is Aldeer! The place people come to vent their frustrations and completely change their stance a few minutes later... 
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Fenced or not, there ain't too many people that catch on and kill turkeyS consistently their first 2 years. Congrats EL NATURELL! It is all because we took grasshopper AKA jughead under our wings and taught him well. that and brentm is his daddy.
Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. —Archibald Rutledge—
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Fences work both ways. They can be a blessing when a turkey is on the ground on the side you're hunting on in an unrestricted area and a nightmare when the turkey is on the other side where you have zero access. I've been a victim and a blessed recipient of both.
Last edited by JUGHEAD; 04/05/12 11:37 AM.
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that and brentm is his daddy. He'll love that little statement. His head is already swelled up pretty good from getting 4 before the calendar hit April....won't be able to hide that melon behind a 100 year old red oak now. 
"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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Meant to give a shoutout to Houndstooth gamecalls too....all 3 of my birds have been killed using his Dixie Combo call...my favorite all around diaphram call and I've tried a BUNCH of them! 
"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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