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It's been tough this year! #1728189
04/30/16 05:54 AM
04/30/16 05:54 AM
Joined: Mar 2010
Posts: 7,978
South of 20/North of 10
North40R Offline OP
14 point
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14 point
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Posts: 7,978
South of 20/North of 10
I've been keeping up with you fellas on here but haven't had much time to post. Congrats on all the kills.

I knew my season was going to be tough due to a shutdown we had scheduled at work. I've worked 35 (12 hour nights, 5pm to 5am) and 3 days since season opened. Our birds never really gobbled and only once this season did I hear more than one bird. The most I heard a bird gobble all season was maybe 30 times.

I've talked with some local legends about this season and most of them have looked at me in awe when I tell them I killed 2 and missed another. My dad nor my son Hayden killed one.

Chalk it up as a bad year! I worked too much! Was just too tired! Lol! I still love it!

I honestly haven't put a tape measure on either of these birds but both looked to be solid 3 year olds.




That's my grandson with me in the second pic and I fell asleep that morning listening to him tell his meme "Papa shot a turkey, Kade wants to shoot a turkey"!

I've got a lot of good times ahead with that little guy!

Last edited by North40R; 04/30/16 05:56 AM.

Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728209
04/30/16 06:34 AM
04/30/16 06:34 AM
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Congrats buddy

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: Atoler] #1728228
04/30/16 07:33 AM
04/30/16 07:33 AM
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Posts: 5,064
Covington County
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Covington County
Congrats Hank on your two birds thumbup Sounds like they were well deserved pal


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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."
Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728250
04/30/16 08:45 AM
04/30/16 08:45 AM
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Posts: 2,176
Elm Grove, La
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Elm Grove, La
Congrats buddy. Hopefully we can squeeze in a trip to ga before it goes out.

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728272
04/30/16 09:45 AM
04/30/16 09:45 AM
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Monroe Co.,Al
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I feel your pain,been working a shutdown since the first of April,got to hunt 7-8 times and scratched only one bird out on public land and had another one get by me,I'm already planning on taking 2 weeks off the first of the season next year before shutdown starts

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728283
04/30/16 10:15 AM
04/30/16 10:15 AM
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Posts: 13,212
Montgomery / Luverne
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Montgomery / Luverne
Congrats Hank. I've been wondering how your season was going. Glad you killed a few

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728292
04/30/16 10:37 AM
04/30/16 10:37 AM
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Auburn
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Auburn
Congrats Hank! They better be scared about next year!

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728312
04/30/16 11:32 AM
04/30/16 11:32 AM
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Pickens County
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thumbup Good Job Hank. Ya'll going out West this time?


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Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728354
04/30/16 01:01 PM
04/30/16 01:01 PM
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Decatur
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Decatur
Congrats and that's a great picture with your grandson!


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Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728362
04/30/16 01:11 PM
04/30/16 01:11 PM
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Posts: 3,759
Harvest, AL
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Harvest, AL
Congrats Hank.

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728376
04/30/16 01:23 PM
04/30/16 01:23 PM
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Northeast Florida
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I came, I saw, so I killed them all......Vern
Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728711
05/01/16 02:59 AM
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congrats.

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728714
05/01/16 03:02 AM
05/01/16 03:02 AM
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North Alabama
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North Alabama
Congrats Hank, maybe we didn't drink enough at the NWTF convention this year. smile I just got the email this week about rooms being available already for this coming convention


Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters. —Archibald Rutledge—
Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728897
05/01/16 08:48 AM
05/01/16 08:48 AM
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Marion, Fayette, Lamar, piddli...
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Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1728936
05/01/16 10:00 AM
05/01/16 10:00 AM
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Lamar Co, AL
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Lamar Co, AL
congrats man!


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Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1729075
05/01/16 01:29 PM
05/01/16 01:29 PM
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Gee's Bend/At The Hog Pen
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Do not regret growing older, it's a privilege denied to many!

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1729134
05/01/16 02:46 PM
05/01/16 02:46 PM
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Huntsville
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Huntsville
Congrats pal! I had been hoping you had gotten after them and killed some!


"The only reason I shoot a 3.5" shell for turkeys is because they don't make a 4" one." - t123winters
Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1729277
05/02/16 12:45 AM
05/02/16 12:45 AM
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Coosa County
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Way to go. I was afraid you weren't even going to make it to the woods.

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1729295
05/02/16 01:30 AM
05/02/16 01:30 AM
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Alabama
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Alabama
Congrats Hank!

Re: It's been tough this year! [Re: North40R] #1729300
05/02/16 01:40 AM
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South of 20/North of 10
North40R Offline OP
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Thanks everyone!

Big Rack I wish we were going somewhere this year but I just don't have the time off from work.


Adopt the pace of nature, her secret is patience. Emerson
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