3RD GOBBLER IN THE BAG, BUT...

[charlie cleveland]

the gobbling was fantastic i do love the sound of those triple gobbles...you sure had them fired up...i too have had the bighead...and like you my turkey went down but got on his wings and flew away...j . j. you have had some good luck and bad luck but what away to end the season ...your filming is getting good i may try the camera thing some day...i go for a week of hunting this coming week the ticks and ski=eeters are really bad the last week....charlie

[J. A. EARLY]

Thanks Charlie, but I still have three weeks left to get the third bird. Took out a different gun for the a.m. Can only hunt an hour. Got a Mercury Magnum (Spanish) 32" 10 gauge with 3.5 inch chambers. It has nice wood and a beavertail forearm. Never killed a turkey with it and it weighs a ton and is hard to hold up. Barrels look like iron pipes. But with 2 1/4 ounces of 6s and 4s, my range should be way out there!

I think I did not kill the turkey because I had a blooper. One of Sherman Bell's formulas, but never shot them in the cool weather. There was little kick. Turkey probably thought he was hit by a handful of acorns. But he ran under the mountain laurel and I thought I had him and he was dead. Sure wish I had put the 2s in his butt.

Wish I had one of the cameras that could zoom in. Birds look like they are in the next county.