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I don't know when my daddy started taking me cause I don't remember not going! I do remember following him until I either gave out or he got tired of walking slow for me to keep up so he would carry me!
I'm just a couple months shy of being 32 years old now and he's still my favorite hunting partner!
Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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Freak of Nature
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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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Booner
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1965, age 10, but almost 11.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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10 point
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Killed a couple, by accident, in the 40s in the Pascagoula Swamp of MS but started seriously hunting them(making my own diaphram yelpers) in the 50s around Natchez MS.
"Its a damn weak minded person who can only think of one way to spell a work." Andrew Jackson
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1961 in Sumter and Greene County -been crazy about it ever since then...
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Some where around the early 70's when Marshall county first open the season. I was hook from the beginning.
retired 6 Saturdays and one Sunday
I am lucky, I don't have as far to go as I have been!
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1981 Greene County, I was 18 and this was the first place I saw gobblers strut and gobble in the wild. Killed my first one in 1983 in Butler County. I actually quit fooling with turkeys in 1987, I had 2-3 years where I hunted saw nothing heard nothing, just started fishing instead., started back 1991 and stayed with it since then.
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Old Mossy Horns
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I didnt start till around 2002.
I missed alot of good mornings.
Do you want to hear him gobble, or do you want to kill him.
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Booner
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I went for the first time last year and got on a turkey the first time out. A friend of mine was calling for me....and then we went before work darn near everyday trying to kill that bird!
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life. Job 33:4
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2002
Went to Missouri and hunted with a firend and killed a three bearded super jake.
2003 did not get a shot, learning to call on my own
Next year 2004, I killed a double double, 2 super jakes and each had 2 beards, 3 seconds between the shots. in Texas
2005 The next year I did not get a shot period.
2006 Shot a young mature bird
2007 No shots opportunitites and did not hunt much.
2008 called in a rally good mature bird and killed it
2009 Killed the 4 beard monster bird
2010 killed Three birds in Texas
2011......... looking to repeat in Texas
So I am stil lnew at all this turkey hunting stuff. Learn something new every year!
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Turkey Nut
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Turkey Nut
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1993, I was 13. Been a slave to the game ever since.
Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. —Archibald Rutledge—
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12 point
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1985 at 24 - late start, hoping for my 100th in the first week.
I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for mine
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Killed my first bird in 89;I was 9 years old but had went many times before and missed several birds before I killed my first.Still haven't killed one with a longer beard;it was 11 3/4".
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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1980
7 years old at the time. Killed my first one at 8 years old (a jake) and been hounding them ever since.
"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."
-- Archibald Rutledge
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1989 I was 14 hunting by myself off a 4-wheeler around the house. Everybody in my family deer hunted but I was the only one wanting to chase turkeys.
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3 years ago. 2 years of nothing. Called in my very first and killed it last season.
"The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever." Isaiah 40:8
"Neither the wisest constitution nor the wisest laws will secure the liberty and happiness of a people whose manners are universally corrupt.� Samuel Adams
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About 20 years ago. My next door neighbor wo is now my father-n-law got me started. I am very greatful for it! Wish I had a place to turkey hunt after getting screwed out of my place this year. Guess its gonna be public land for me.
If you claim to be a Christian then why do you act like the devil? You will be known by the fruit you bear!
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Then next one I kill will be my first. Only started in on Turkeys last spring. I couldn't ever get my dad to go when he was living. He said he'd hunted as a kid too many times out of necessity. He didn't want anything to do with it after he got out of the service following WW2.
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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About 20 years ago. My next door neighbor wo is now my father-n-law got me started. I am very greatful for it! Wish I had a place to turkey hunt after getting screwed out of my place this year. Guess its gonna be public land for me. you still got a key and pemit, right? Ain't no way I would give in if I were you.
" I do view Jim Waltz as a really good Presidential candidate" Bama_Earl
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