YEKRUT
Well-Known Member
My new lease is exactly an hour and 45 minutes from my house, it is a haul so out I left at 4:15ish this morning. I pull up to the gate where I had planned on hunting and threw my crap on and headed for a ridge top about a half mile away. To make a long story short I walked and called all morning and about 10:30 decided to swing back by the truck, refill on water, and head to the other end of the property to look for some fresher sign to sit on. I kill a couple bottles of water and set out to walk towards a big green field that I knew was on the place and surrounded by big pines that ought to offer shade for a hot bird. Well I walk for a good while just slipping along and calling every now and then when I hear the spit but not the drum of a turkey and then catch movement just around one of the curves in the road and I mean CLOSE. I guess he heard me walking and calling and was coming to me but he never gobbled to give up his location. I stepped behind a tree, raised my gun, flipped the safety off and let him keep coming to me. He stepped out in full strut from behind a big pine and I sent a swarm of Nitros to make his day. I almost blew his head off. 
I had nothing else to do so I just sat down next to him, said a few prayers, and soaked it all up for about 30 minutes before I ever moved him or did anything. On the way home I come up on an old guy that had just had a motorcycle wreck. He was skinned up but ok, the motorcycle was crushing his ancle under the running board so I got it off of him and back out in the road. He was ok and his bike was ok minus a little road rash.
Weight 15# 13 oz's
Beard 11"
Spurs R - 1" L - 1"
Score 57.8125
I had nothing else to do so I just sat down next to him, said a few prayers, and soaked it all up for about 30 minutes before I ever moved him or did anything. On the way home I come up on an old guy that had just had a motorcycle wreck. He was skinned up but ok, the motorcycle was crushing his ancle under the running board so I got it off of him and back out in the road. He was ok and his bike was ok minus a little road rash.
Weight 15# 13 oz's
Beard 11"
Spurs R - 1" L - 1"
Score 57.8125
