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Re: LFTW…APRIL FOOLS DAY
[Re: gobblebox]
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04/01/24 05:12 PM
04/01/24 05:12 PM
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Joined: Dec 2010
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blade
12 point
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Killed my biggest bird this morning,started out not hearing anything so I went to an area I haven’t been in this year,I stopped about 100 yards from a foodplot in some big thinned pines you can see a long ways through and yelped a few times and didn’t hear anything,I get in the truck and pull down to the foodplot and get all my stuff on and walk across to the other side of the plot to a road that cuts through the woods to a powerline,i Yelp and one answers me down the hill,i ease down the road 50 yards and check him and he answered in the bottom and i was thinking he was 75-100 yards away in the bottom so I ease down the road and was gonna just get on a tree right there and before I could get there I walked up on some hens about 30 yards into the thinned pines,I freeze and when they go back to pecking I ease down to my knees,a minute later I see the gobbler strutting and he’s going to my right,the hens have gotten within 15 yards of me but there’s a dirt mound between us so they don’t see me,a minute later the gobbler steps into a thinned row and he picks me out,he had already stretched his neck out was making those nervous steps like he was about to get out of there so I raise up and pop him before he has the chance,hunt took probably 5 minutes total,he had 11” beard and right at 1 1/2” spurs,probably the fastest hunt I’ve ever been on Don’t give Gobblebox the keys to your lease. He’s a flat out turkey annihilator.
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Re: LFTW…APRIL FOOLS DAY
[Re: CarbonClimber1]
#4110421
04/01/24 06:12 PM
04/01/24 06:12 PM
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Posts: 17,252 Montgomery
bamaeyedoc
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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40+ years of turkey hunting and never killed one on April 1st. Streak continues. Nothing gobbled at dawn. Heard 1st bird at 715. Had 2 super jakes with 6” beards at 60 yards gobbling like they was grown. Strutter drumming at 80 yards. Saw him but his hen took him away. Sigh. Congrats to killers!
AKA: “Dr. B” Aldeer #121 8-3-2000 Proud alum of AUM, UAB, and UA 2023-2024 ALdeer Deer Contest Winners 2024-2025 Aldeer Deer Contest Winners
Glennis Jerome "Jerry" Harris 1938-2017 UGA Class of 1960 BS/MS Forestry LTJG, USNR
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Re: LFTW…APRIL FOOLS DAY
[Re: CarbonClimber1]
#4110443
04/01/24 06:46 PM
04/01/24 06:46 PM
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TDog93
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Jun 2020
Posts: 13,368
Earth
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Congrats killers - dandy bird gobblebox
Hunt the wind - leave it better than you found it - love your neighbor as you love your self We need prayer for our country now more than ever
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Re: LFTW…APRIL FOOLS DAY
[Re: CarbonClimber1]
#4110555
04/01/24 10:03 PM
04/01/24 10:03 PM
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Posts: 12,511 Sylacauga, AL
poorcountrypreacher
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Feb 2003
Posts: 12,511
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Congrats to all who got one. Seemed like a better day for fishing to me
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: LFTW…APRIL FOOLS DAY
[Re: CarbonClimber1]
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04/01/24 10:42 PM
04/01/24 10:42 PM
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Posts: 494 Alabama
ShaftOne
4 point
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4 point
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When I first heard him this morning I wasn’t sure it was gobble due to some cutting on the neighboring land. I cut a little louder and he had gotten closer. I was set facing directly down the middle of the ridge, he hung left and I didn’t see him until he was 35 yards. I tried to move the barrel to him, but he saw movement and putted 2-3x and eased off in the bottom. Few minutes late he started gobbling so I knew I was still in the game. I watched him strut and gobble for about 8-10 minutes waiting until I could move on him. He eased on to the next ridge, so did I. He got quite on me, so I was waiting him out. A wood pecker fired off right above me, and he ate it up, but had moved to the next ridge. While he was hot, I cut at him pretty hard and he cut it off. I caught glimpses of him working the other ridge, and noticed he was coming. The only place I didn’t need him to come was hard left, and you know he did that. He was in some thick stuff drumming for about 8 minutes gobbling periodically. It was frustrating knowing he was so close but I couldn’t see him, but was awesome feeling/hearing him drum. He finally broke out behind the thick cover and I threaded a needle. We battled from 7:15 until about 8:50. quick image hosting
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