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04-27-2024, 12:54 PM
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Turkey hunting with an 8 gauge
Clabrough and Bros 8 gauge! Wow what a hunt!
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04-27-2024, 01:16 PM
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My wife got up early and could not go back to sleep so that means I could not go back to sleep. I got up and darted out of the house not planning to go that morning. I grabbed my 8 gauge clabrough and bros side by side from the 1870's, 2x 3 1/4" shells loaded with. 2 1/4oz of 5's and headed out. I raced and set up only hearing one faint gobble way way away. I got the call and he answered back. 20 minutes later he is walking up beside me in full strut. Huge bird! He put on an amazing show in front of me trying to coax the hen decoy from the Jake. Finally he put his rearend to me and I could not see his eyes. I lifted the 15 pound gun and waited for him to put his fan down. At that moment 2x 3 year old birds run in at full strut and start beating on the Jake decoy. Wow! The old bird jumped in with them. One of the 2 jerks stayed with his fan up the entire time of the fight. Then I remembered I had a shotgun in my hand and dropped the aggressive newcomer at 25 yards. The other 2 slinked off in different directions. Then the hens started coming in. All this at 7am
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Last edited by Keith Sirmans; 04-27-2024 at 04:24 PM..
Reason: 5's not 6's
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