yesterday i got up at 4.00 am fixed my breakfastand then got ready togo to the woods...fixing to get into truck and it started raining and the wind was blowing pretty good...i decided to wait a while to see how the weather got..well it finally cleared up a little at 1.00 pm i jumped into the truck and off to thw woods i went...it was still cloudy but wind had died done..got my decoys set up and got in the blind at 2.00 i see a turkey at about 250 yards.. it took it about 30 minutes to come over to check the decoys out it was a big hen...as i watched the hen grazearound the decoys i suddenly heard a growling sound behind me at first i thought it mite be a coyote but it turnrned out to be a small red dog it was growling at my decoys...well i slapped my hands together and little dog got the message and run off...i figured my evening hunt was over but decided to stay with it ...after about an hour oif calling at 15 minute intervals 6 big jakes came onto the field boy was they hungary they payed not a bit of attention to the decoys or me softly calling to them so i just sat back and enjoyed the show....about an hour passed by and then another turkey came onto the field and joined the other group..then another turkey came out and he was the one i was waiting for...i called to him and he just fuzzed up nice and pretty...the turkeys were at about a 100yards i looked at the time it was 6.00... they finally picked up the pace and was coming slowly to the decoys i layed my call down and pushed the safety off that old ten ga parker...big gobbler came by at 20 yards yep the bad boy met his waterloo...the big gobbler was shot with the ph ten ga 32 inch barrels used gauge mates in 12 ga in it...turkey was shot with 3 1/2 inch winchester no 6...turkey weighed 20 1/2 lbs 10 inch beard 3/4 inch razor sharp spurs...the turkey was a 3 year old turkey in my book...i lookes at the time it was 6.25 pm when i killed the turkey..this turkey never gobbled a time only yelped a coupla times.anyway it was a good hunt...... charlie
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