Its Moments like this

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Its Moments like this

Postby Sprig » Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:02 pm

Moments like this keep you going back, convinced my bride to go out turkey hunting with me sat morning, SOOO, I got her up at 4:00 made her walk about 1.5 miles before day light, through mud, snakes, bugs etc.
as the red birds started to sing, a bird gobbled about 80 yards from us, I told her what the bird would do (like I really knew what I was talking about), day broke and the first hens flew down, then six more, still no gobbler. Then just below the creek bank to the left a red head seems to be growing out of the ground 60 yards from us, in one motion up in the field he plops into full stut. My wife wispers, her heart is about to come out of her chest, I said you should feel mine.......the picture explains the rest.
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23lbs, 10.5 beard, one 2" spur and one 1.5" that was broke
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Postby Delta Duck » Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:41 pm

Good job!

That should be some mighty fine turkey legs! :wink:
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Postby gyver » Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:47 pm

get that bird measured by a game warden.he'll rank as the fourth heaviest in the state record book and #1 in the spur length. congratulations. i got this info out of the 2002 MS. wild turkey report.
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Postby Delta Duck » Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:56 pm

Yes you should get that bird measured and weighed! :wink:
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Postby luckyduck » Sun Apr 06, 2003 10:13 pm

Congradulations! I know about the heart pounding. HeHe :lol: Good luck the rest of the season.
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Postby injun_23 » Mon Apr 07, 2003 11:12 am

WOW! That was a monster. 2" spur was 3/8" longer than the best I ever killed (which was the biggest I'v ever seen in N C). May very well be a record book bird. Please report how it stands in the record books. INJ
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Postby Sprig » Mon Apr 07, 2003 11:56 am

Thanks for the info on the state records, I had no idea he would score like that. I've already fleshed him out to be mounted so I know I can't get the weight confirmed / recorded, but I'll sure get the spurs confirmed. Thanks for the info.
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