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Well I got lucky on #2 today at 1:40. I decided I would sleep in this morning with the storms pushing through. Around 8:30 I checked the weather and radar. It looked like it was going to clear up around 11 on my Dallas Cty lease. This lease has a lot of crop fields along with some hay fields. I have always had good luck on this property after rain pushes through. The fields are like magnets to the turkeys down there. I arrive at the camp a just as the rain was quitting. I load my gear on the TAV an off I go to the 18 wheeler trailer. I arrive at the 18 wheeler an proceed to climb up to my look out spot. From the the little landing at the top of this trailer I can glass a lot of ground. I glass everything I can see with no luck. A few minutes pass and I hear a gobble. I could not tell what direction the gobble came from so I listen a few more minutes. He lets another one rip and I have his direction now. I hope on the TAV and head his way. I get to where I think he is an glass that field and nothing. As I'm standing there looking around 4 jakes walk out several hundred yards away. I watch them a for little while thinking he may be with them. He never shows but he gobbles again. I have his exact location now so I haul butt that way. As i'm slipping down the edge of the field nearing where he's at I see a head pop up 150 yards away. I freeze as he stares me down, after a few intense minutes he drops his head and walks off. I get in the edge of the woods and finishing slipping to were I want to be. I get to some hay bales and I sneak a peek over the top of them. I see him easing down the field edge so I give him a call. He goes into full strut so I know he's interested. I continue to give him some soft calls and he would just strut back an forth. At this point I don't have much faith in calling him to me in this wide open field. All I am thinking is just don't spook him and I'll have another chance at him. After 30 minutes of him staying put I decide to hit him with some aggressive cutting and excited yelps. This does the trick and he starts easing my way. He would walk 5 yards and blow up. I'd cluck and soft yelp and he'd drop strut an come another 5 yards or so. This continued for over 30 mins as he covered 100 yards. I finally felt like he was in range of the little 20ga and I let it eat. The TSS rocked his world and he folded up like a sack of taters. He was a nice bird with double beards. He weighed 20 LB 13 OZ, 10.5" & 4.5" beards with 1 1/8" spurs.  
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.
Comes to us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
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LUCK:::; When presistence, dedication, perspiration and preparation meet up with opportunity!!!
- - - - - - - -A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jeferson - - - - - - - -
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Great bird and story! Congrats.
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I would rather be turkey hunting
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Awesome bird Squeaky, and heck of an opening weekend. Looks like you are picking up right where you left off last year. Congrats!
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Awesome bird Squeaky, and heck of an opening weekend. Looks like you are picking up right where you left off last year. Congrats! Thanks Cole!! You are off to nice start your self there bud  Congrats on your bird.
Last edited by Squeaky; 03/16/14 04:16 PM.
"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life.
Comes to us at midnight very clean.
It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands.
It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
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Nice bird! Congratulations
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Good job Mike. We're screwed on our side of the river. Got clear cut on us
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Sounds like an awesome hunt. Congrats.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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Cold. Blooded. Killer. Congrats bud!
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Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. —Archibald Rutledge—
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Congrats Squeaky!! Very nice!
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.
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Way to go man, great start to the season
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You are the man Squeaky! No doubt about it! Congrats!
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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