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[KPcalls]

As of now its nine days and counting.....youth hunt with my oldest son on some Ms, forest lands.  Just hope I can get on a gobbling bird to set up on with him.

 I can only think of one old bird that I got to hunt some with my son on the last couple of days of the La, season last year.  He watched his buddy die a couple of days before and became a little crazy......   Hopefully he made it through the year and I'll get to hear him goble once again. 

[Porter]

I have two birds in KS that is begging a re-match.. Dummie and Gobblie ... Dummie is the one I missed   If Darlin would have let me know I was supposed to shoot that time, he'd been dead meat....  Gobblie... that darn bird gobbles and gobbles and gobbles...  He was fun to hunt, but we were always wrong place wrong time!

It's a long wait here still.    Be interesting to see how this year plays out!  3 weeks of vacation to blow and I'm ready.  Going to take that young lady out again this Spring and hope to get her a bird.  Gotta have some pics for all you guys to drool over 

[3CB]

This bird gave me fits last spring.
Round 1: My son and I got out of the truck about 8am one morning had been to another spot with no luck. As soon as I open the door I hear him gobble about 2 hundred yards away. We move in and set up he gobbles good then shuts down.
Round 2: Set up on him at day break. Bird gobbles 4 times and the public land boys across the boundary line go to hammering on calls. Bird shuts up, listen to calling for 30 minutes. Walk to the Id10t that is 15 yards from our property line and inform him he has shut said gobbler up for the AM by calling incessantly! He said Oh I"m sorry!!
Round 3: 2 weeks later. Bird gobbles on roost, flies down gets with a hen and leaves.
Round 4: 1 week later. I park the truck after taking the kids to school. When I get out he is gobbling on the edge of a cut over in a foodplot. I work in close with the knee pads on an blow a 30 yard shot with the 20. Shoulder gave out on me and I pulled the shot! Needless to say I am seriously PO'd.
Round 5: Across the creek on some public land bordering a pasture late one evening. Set up to catch em roosting. Well ole boy comes down the pasture hill gobbling every 50-75 yards. He's lonely but want commit to the calling. Flies the creek and roosts on the edge the cutover. As we leave we hoot and he gobbles hard every time we call. I have a date in the A.M.
Round 6. The final match. I take the kids to school and get in the woods about 0800. When I leave the truck ole boy is talking to anyone who will listen, about a 100 yards down hill from where I missed him earlier. I move in and set up about 75 yards from him. I'm on the edge the clear cut setting against a 6 inch sweet gum. I know this place well several birds have died on this stretch of road over the years. Well before the place was cut the turkeys have loved to strut on this bench on the side of the hill. I make my first call and get a good response. I get down on the gun and wait. 20 minutes later a hen walks around the bend in the road. She is followed by sounds of strutting. His vibrations reverberate though me. He clears cover and the shot is made. Solid 20 pound 3 year old bird.

[Ryan T]

3CB, awesome bird and story... I wasn't actually referring to any call makers on this site with my post about "not killing."

I was referring to a few on another site! 50 in 10 years is a good pace!!! 

Countin' em down! 15 days!!!!!!!!!!!! 

[C W]

Some callmakers just don't talk about their kills, and some won't let you get a word in once they get going... 

50 birds in ten years aint bad.... my boy has atleast one for each year he's been alive, and I think he's on track to break 50 by his 12th birthday. Of course thats the leagal age to hunt in some states.

CW