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Happy Birthday to me!!
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King of Spring  Joined: Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:01 am Posts: 627 Location: Bluemont, VA 
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 Happy Birthday to me!!Nothing like having your Birthday during Spring Gobbler season!! Except taking a Tom you been chasing since the opener on your B-day! This is the first bird I have taken that I never called to. I got in opening morning and had him gobbling at all my calls. When he flew down he was soon joined by two hens who took him in the other direction. Monday he was roosted about 250 yds farther down the run and flew across the run at daybreak w/ his ladies and was gone. Yesterday he was roosted in the same tree as the opener. I had set up on him and had him gobbling when six jakes came in and stood on the bank of the run across from him @ 40 yds. gobbling their heads off at him. I guess they were challenging him (safety in numbers?). He flew away w/ his ladies again onto the other side of the run. Today I snuck in early hoping he would be in the same spot. At 0530 he gobbled. Same tree - same branch. I had repositioned a bit from yesterday and when he flew down into his strutting zone he landed 32 yds in front of me @ 0615. He strutted to his still roosted hens and when he came out of strut at 32 yds I gave him a load of WinXR #5s.
Dropped him like a bag of hammers! Nice Tom (19 lbs. 9.5" beard and razor sharp 1" left & 3/4" right spurs. It has been a great few days listening to him gobble and trying to out-wit this henned-up old boy! Now I need to go find another bird!  Last edited by brwndg on Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:43 pm, edited 1 time in total. |
| Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:07 am |
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Boss Gobbler  Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 3:08 pm Posts: 1563 Location: Central VA
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AWESOME. I like that pic too, it has a lot of character.
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| Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:09 am |
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2 Year Old
Joined: Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:59 am Posts: 55
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congrats congrats on a nice bird and happy birthday. no better present in the world.
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| Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:10 am |
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King of Spring
Joined: Tue Dec 07, 2004 1:49 pm Posts: 572 Location: Durham, NC
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Congrats... nice pic!!!
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| Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:19 am |
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King of Spring
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:46 am Posts: 832 Location: SC by way of WV
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Want to HUNT!
 _________________ "A man who insists on adherence to the facts when it comes to his hunting exploits, size of fish...abilities of his bird dog...is an untrustworthy fellow. A fine sporting liar is a gentleman & someone whose acquaintance should be cherished" R. Ruark. |
| Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:27 am |
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King of Spring
Joined: Mon Dec 13, 2004 6:05 pm Posts: 493 Location: Roanoke
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Congrats. Nice bird and nice pic - that's one for the wall.
BB |
| Wed Apr 13, 2005 11:56 am |
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Jake
Joined: Tue Feb 01, 2005 10:40 am Posts: 25 Location: Radford, Eastern Shore
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Nice bird! Nice Pic!
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| Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:02 pm |
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King of Spring  Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 10:40 pm Posts: 1485 Location: Middlebrook VA
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Congrads!!
_________________ "Son You've Got Three Choices in Life, Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way!" -Joe Rowe- http://www.jkttv.com Max |
| Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:25 pm |
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2 Year Old
Joined: Fri Dec 10, 2004 3:16 pm Posts: 67 Location: kingsport,tn
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congrats on a fine gobbler,and thats a great picture also!!!
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| Wed Apr 13, 2005 12:48 pm |
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King of Spring  Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:46 am Posts: 753 Location: Hampton, VA.
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You Da Man
 _________________ Ron "Turkey hunting, when you knock all the feathers off it, is a game of infinite variables, played on a field of unlimited dimension, against an opponent who doesn't know the rules and wouldn't play by them if he did." ...Jim Spencer |
| Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:09 pm |
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Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am Posts: 3795
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nice..i like the looks of hat woodland behind you...bet here will another big bird somewhere not to far from where that one went down, from looking at the background in the photo.
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| Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:26 pm |
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Longbeard
Joined: Wed Jan 19, 2005 11:34 am Posts: 128 Location: Mount Carmel, TN
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Congrats and Happy Birthday!
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| Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:38 pm |
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Congrats, great pic!
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| Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:53 pm |
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Hard huntin does have it's rewards. Nice bird, great picture and story. Congtats.
GS... |
| Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:06 pm |
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King of Spring  Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 9:27 am Posts: 1907 Location: Roanoke, VA
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Happy Birthday to you. Happy Birthday to you. You killed a big ol' gobbler. Happy Birthday to you!
Seriously, congrats on a fine bird on a special day. |
| Wed Apr 13, 2005 2:34 pm |
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