YEKRUT
Well-Known Member
Well I didn't have a bit of luck this morning, didn't even hear a bird and couldn't find any sign at all. I headed to camp about 9:30 and choked down a couple sandwiches and put a plan together. I decided to make the long trek toward the back of the property and look for sign and hopefully find something to hunt in the process. I got back on the back side and found a strut zone where one had been wearing it out for the last week or so. I cut a hole out in a rose bush and got tucked back I to it good where I could shoot the road where he had been strutting. I called every 30 minutes or so from 11:30 until about 4:30 when I finally got a response from a hen. She fed down the road out of some clear cut right to me and milled around for about 10 minutes when I see a red head coming from the other side of the roadway. I could see he had a good beard and a big noggin from the start. I let him get to 40 yards and dented the primer on him at 5:03. He never said a word coming in. The wind was blowing hard and the sun was baking me so I was ready to get some gone. He is the best bird I have killed this year and he finishes my Alabama limit out. 10 3/4" beard, 1 1/16" spurs.
