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Gobbler Down
Topic Started: Apr 25 2007, 10:47 AM (507 Views)
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Yeeehaw!! woohoo

Thanks, for letting me use your backup blind Gooder. I dont think I'd have lasted 3.5 hours in the rain!

Time for a snooze... :coffee:

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Congrats !! don't see many that you can hang from a tree that way.. :cheers:
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Right on, nice bird and even nicer pic....thats what I'm talking about! :wOOT:
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:allright:
theres some hooks on that bird for sure

congrats
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Congrats!!
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:allright: Thats the way to do it
just relax and have fun

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nice bird, congrats :thumbsup:
Enjoy the woods
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Congrats on your first longbeard Dave!!!!! Nice work!!!!

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Nice Bird :allright:

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Great bird ,congrat's ,now you got time to go get another .

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Congratulations.Thats a nice bird.

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Very nice! ;)

Congratulations on the limb hanger! :allright: :thumbsup:
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CONGRATS on a great bird
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Cograts on your successful morning :cheers: Nice bird.
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Congrats on the nice bird :allright:

Any details on the weight,beard length etc (;
Nice pic. :wow:
I thought I was wrong once,But I was mistaken
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Prelude to my first Long Beard, rant included.

The whole story,

Started hunting turkey’s three years ago…

SEASON #1 Killed a huge strutting Jake first day out. He was 18 pounds, with a near adult tail & seven inch paint brush beard. I was hooked!!! Went out a couple of day later & killed another Jake. I decided that would be the last Jake, that I’d ever shoot. Later that season. I called in a couple of nice Tom’s for a buddy & helped him bag his first bird.

SEASON #2
Had a pair of great Tom’s patterned, before the opener. Established a few different setup options.
Every single time I hunted last year, I had the neighboring land owner & his two sidekicks setup right in my lap. I like to sit for a couple of hours before roosting and watch the birds roost and then sneak out. These jokers came out every night at about 8:45pm. Then they’d walk right through the roost sight, blowing their damn owl calls.

Last April 24 eve, they bumped my 2 big Tom’s off the roost, then watched where they relocated. The next morning, they setup right under the roosted birds & scared them off the roost again. The entire season went that way.

One afternoon, I called up a Jake right before the end of legal hunting time. Not interested, let him walk. Cased & locked my gun. Then sat and watched….Sure enough, these guys walk right in at last light and roosted the Jake. Next morning, I actually watched them trespass in and kill it right off the roost .

Near the end of the season, the two big Toms were roosting with a couple of hens on the other side of the property. Since I don’t have permission to be in their, I set up in the field and tried to call them out. The hens were working right into my lap, but the Toms hung up just inside the woods. So I invite a buddy out with a double bull blind & setup further back in the field to draw out the Toms. We had the Tom’s working and guess what….Yup!! Here comes dum & dummer sneaking right across the open field towords our calling. They were about 125 yards away when they clued in on the blind. Then snuck back out….All of this led to the worst season ever!! = NO TOM

In the fall, I caught the same guy in there. The morning after he shot a doe out of my tree stand. He said, since it was right on the fence line it was his right to hunt it. Which explains why the stand went cold…his reaction…He built a permanent stand about a hundred yards down the fence line. Looks like the Swiss Family Robinson’s live there too. You could see it from outer space!!

These guys have no idea about hunter etiquette!!


SEASON #3 Had a pair of great Tom’s patterned, before the opener. Established a few different setup options. Sound like the start of last season??? No Way!!! I posted the property, with signs that the land owner gave me. Put them at all access points that they use. They came out this April 24 eve too. I think they got the message…They didn’t get any gobbles out of their hooters anyway…I had the farm to myself for the first time in two years!

Opening day, 5:50 am. Two gobblers sounding off on the roost, about 600 yds. Away. 6:05 am and it sounds like their on the ground, so I start calling. Put my bino’s on the woodlot across the way and two huge strutting Tom’s emerge. They make their way towards me, cutting the difference in half. Then a hen pops out of the same woodlot and they go straight back. Two more hens show up & those gobblers aren’t even considering my lonely hen setup anymore. Half an hour later, two more strutters show up to the party. Shortly after that…two more long beards in the mix, to make 6 long beards. Soon after, a pair of Tom’s charged in to the strutfest that was revolving around 3 hens. Their was a huge battle & those two Tom’s got their arses handed to them on a platter! They got run off, but continued to follow the rest. Just keeping a respectful distance, of the two bullies. My calling alone couldn’t compete with the big show & the birds were getting further away…Time to ditch this blind and move down the bush line. 150 yard crawl down the way & I was set back up, just inside the tree line. It was raining & I was soaked to the bone. The birds were about 400 yds. Away. Started some aggressive cutting/yelping, from the trusty mouth call. Those birds came in on short order and on a string. First gobbler to hit 20 yds…aimed right for the bottom of his neck & BANG! 9:20am. Ooops…Shot his beard nearly clean off!! The other birds barely moved, till’ I came out of the brush. YEEHAW!! My first long beard.

20 lbs. even
1” & 1 1/16” hooks
10 ¾” beard (what’s left of it anyway)

I believe he was one of the two birds that got beat up.
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Apr 26 2007, 06:05 AM
Congrats on the nice bird :allright:

Any details on the weight,beard length etc (;
Nice pic. :wow:

You asked for it...Ha!! Long-winded for sure. :crazy:
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congrats on the limb hanger.Brent J..
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:cheers: congrats on a nice bird. :cheers:
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