How many folks have harvested a multiple bearded gobbler? I hunted this guy for 3 weekends in a row. I got to see him twice. He was always surrounded with hens. The next to last weekend that I could hunt, he was sounding off while I was walking down the hill where I knew he was roosted. It was WELL before daylight. When daylight started I gave him a couple of yelps to let him know I was here. He cut me off and I shut up. I thought I was going to play hard to get and see if that would peak his curiosity, when a boss hen started cackling at him. Man that really got him fired up, so I cackled right back at him and he blackballed. The boss hen and I talked back and forth to him and I thought he was going to have a stroke with all the gobbling he was doing, and so was I. Anything she would do I tried to mimic. This lasted for somewhere around a half an hour I think. I hunt private land, and I thought I would try something a little different, for me at least. I did a fly down cackle and then gobbled with my box call then shut up. Less than a minute later he glided down silently in front of me about 15 yards and threw his head in the air to try and pick out his competition, I think. I shot and he went straight down and never twitch a feather. He was a great bird and I am honored to have harvested him. He had 1 3/8" spurs and weighed 20.5 lbs. He was also one of the hardest birds I ever had an encounter with. How 'bout it anyone else got a story?
