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Acorn

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. This all started with these birds yesterday evening. We left the ball park and made it to the woods around 5:00. We get setup and I made a series of yelps. Two gobblers hammer down out the ridge around 400 yards away on the neighboring property. Something had them hung up on the end of the ridge and I'm thinking they have some ladies with them but was not sure. After about an hour of calling back and forth we move in another 50 yards closer. I start calling aggressively and the are gobbling their heads off but are still hung up. So we decide to back out because it was getting later. We walked about 100 yards and one of the gobblers hammers down. They have cut the distance in half. They are around 200 yards and coming fast. We scramble to get setup. They are now around 150 yards and gobbling like crazy. So I make a series of soft yelp and go quiet. They are coming on a string. My son decides he needs to readjust with them at 40 yards. Big mistake they catch him moving. They got hung up after that and went back the other way. He learned a valuable lesson on that one. So this morning we get setup and they start gobbling on the limb around 300 yards away. I do a series of tree yelp to let them know their was a lady down the ridge. I hear them fly down and I start calling aggressively. They are coming my way fast. When they get to around 100 yards I yelp softly and lay they call down. They walked in to 20 yards and he made the shot. 10 1/4 beard and 7/8 spur he only had one. I guess he weighs around 19 or 20 pounds.


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Great job! I love the picture, get that one blown up to 20x24 and framed for his room

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Nice job and a nice gobbler! Lessons are hard to swallow sometimes but it all worked out great for him, funny how the ones that get away teach us more than the ones that don't get away.
 

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