Number 1 was killed on 4/3, I had stood ontop of a hill on a hunting lease in Laurens and listened for gobbling and heard nothing so I decided to start walking and calling. The area I was hunting was open pines that had been thined during deer season. I walked and covered approx 50 acres without any responses so I sat down near a dusting area and started calling every few minutes. I heard a gooble across the creek where one of my buddies was hunting so I went to investigate. He was across the creek gobbling so I called to him a couple of times to see if he would answer and he did. Then I heard a gobble behind me from where I had just moved from. I headed back that way for a couple hundred yards and stopped and called. When he answered this time he was close and coming so I had to take a sit real quick and within 2 minutes he came around the corner and met he fate at 9:30am. 19lbs 7ozs, 9 inch beard 1 inch spurs.
Number 2 was killed on 4/8 on a hunting lease in upper G'ville county. I got there before daylight and went to the top a ridge where a had heard gobbling previously and worked two different birds. i sat and waited for daylight and as it started getting a bird gobbled across the road. ista there thinking maybe I had made a wrong decision but about five minutes later a couple of birds started gobbling in a holler in fron of me. I waited until they flew down and did a fly down cackle and they responded imediately. I got turned in thier direction and started some soft calling with a mouth call. A few minutes later i hear something to my left and when I turn my head to see what it is there is three longbeards standing 25 yds from me. Of course they see me and flush. I'm setting there watching one with my binoculars that had lit in a tree about 75 yds away. I decided to see if he would gobble while in the tree so I called. He didn't answer but the turkeys I had heard gobble first did and were headed my way so I repositioned for them. The first one walked up the logging road I was setting beside and looked at the decoy I had set out and turned and walked off (this is the reson a rarely use a decoy). I decided nothing to loose then so I started calling, there was at least two birds gobbling and I thought maybe three. They circled me and came in from my right through some fairly thick under brush, one finally made the mistake of getting in an open area and stretched his neck looking for the hen at 22yds and he died at 7:30am. 17lbs 6ozs 8 1/2 inch beard and 5/8 spurs. There was three more with him.
Number 3 was killed on 4/9 on the same lease in G'ville county on the same ridge. I had set up in the same place because I knew there was six more gobblers in this spot. The wind was blowing terrible and I heard nothing on the roost. I decide to start walking and calling around 7 am. I walked about 1/2 mile with no response and the wind was not letting up so I decided to head back to the truck and go get some breakfast. When I topped the ridge I had started on there was two birds gobbling a hardwood holler to right of where I had come in. I slipped in the woods about 20 yds and set up against a bid red oakgot settled and started calling. They answered imediately and within ten minutes they both were infront of me at 25yds. The lead bird was dead at 7:20am. 17lbs 14ozs 9 1/4 inch beard 7/8 spurs.
Number 4 was killed on 4/15, I was back on the lease in Laurens. I had been there on the tuesday before and worked these birds for about two hours that morning but couldn't do anything with them but I did learn thier pattern a little. I went back on thursday thinking I had them figured out, wrong, they weren't even roosted in the same place. The one bird I did hear was gobbling on a private tract of land in the middle of ours. I worked my way around through a creek bottom on our side and started working him. Everything I throwed at him on my box call he answered but he didn't seem to want to come. I decided to just keep working him until he came or shut up. Thirty minutes into the gobble fest he was puttting on another bird gobbles behind me. I turned as quick as possible and called soft, he imediately gobbles and within two minutes he steps into an open lane at thirty yds. He was dead at 7:45am. 19lbs 12ozs 101/2 inch beard 1 inch spurs.
Number 5 was killed on 4/17 on the G'ville lease. I didn't hear anything on the roost that morning so I had been walking and calling. I got on a bird that I had worked on youth day for the daughter for a friend of mine. After about two hours of chasing him and figuring out I didn't know as much about turkey hunting as I thought I knew he quit gobbling. I spent the rest of the morning walking and calling trying to locate another one with no luck. Went to lunch and almost decided to go home because the afternoon hunting had not been as good for me as in past years. But I decided to go to food plot where me and a friend had seen a gobbler at 1pm on the previous staurday. I eased in there sat down and started calling about every 10 minutes(except for the 15 minutes I slept). After about 45 minutes I heard a gobble behind me so I gathered up my stuff and headed that way. When I got closer to where I suspected he was I called again with no answer so I decided to check over the ridge. I had moved about 30 yds when gobbled and he was about 75 yds away in a road leading to another food plot. i eased into the food plot set up and called softly one time and just waited. Within 5 minutes his head popped up over the rise in the road at 20yds and he was dead at 1:15pm. 18lbs 14ozs, 8 3/4 inch beard, 7/8 inch spurs.
