Low Country Longbeards

[The Waterfowler]

An amazing trip just completed by four of us to South Carolina. I've had hunts like this with Rios but never Easterns. We tagged 18 Longbeards in 3 and a half days and had some incredible experiences that always goes with hunting turkeys. I had one bird run through the middle of 5 Jakes and hit my decoy before I could shoot him for my first bird of the trip. My second came on a dead run down a sandy road in the pines and by the time I could put my slate down and get my gun up he stopped rolling at my feet. But the neatest encounter was with Patrick's last bird. He called up 3 Longbeards, filled his last tag and watched one fly off while one stayed around. Anyone that has ever turkey hunted much knows what happened next as the survivor pecked, kicked and did un-natural acts for over 45 minutes. I was able to get to Stephen where he was and he got behind Patrick and crawled up to him and the results were positive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBztiPes8MU

This ended our hunt as we had a ten hour drive ahead of us.











Day 3.

[kris Schaumburg]

My inbox is cleaned out, waiting for the info.

[The Waterfowler]

LLDC members hunting with LLDC members! We're circumpolar!!!

[kris Schaumburg]

well send them my info I have one blind that shoots more birds than the whole LLDC.

[The Waterfowler]

Happy for you then. Don't find many blinds that kill over 3000 birds.

[kris Schaumburg]

Dang thought I had you, but I did want to know what your club had you aren't counting ground swatted snows are you. Btw I am just jealous of the turkeys.

[H20 Fowl]

you aren't counting ground swatted snows are you.

No. if we counted ground swatted snows, and shot spoons, we'd break 5000.

[Double R 2]

you aren't counting ground swatted snows are you.

No. if we counted ground swatted snows, and shot RAMZILLAS, we'd break 5000.

That's a fact!

Pat - I'll bet y'all got callouses on your trigger fingers after that trip! Hope I'll luck through there when y'all fry turkey nuggets.

And Kris - God-only help any birds that cross your path after April 15th!

[lipsplitter39654]

Damn Mr Pitt that was one helluva reckoning.....

[The Waterfowler]

Have always said I'd rather be lucky than good! Incredible trip and hope all have good success this season. We even had a RCA with us.

[aweyerman]

Thats crazy! Must have had a crazy good place to hunt up there.

[3seasons]

Thats an awesome hunt right there. Congrats to all the hunters. What were the sizes of the birds, the one on the far left of the tailgate has a rope. what few spurs you can see are nice too.

[arduckslayer]

Thats an awesome hunt right there. Congrats to all the hunters. What were the sizes of the birds, the one on the far left of the tailgate has a rope. what few spurs you can see are nice too.

Thanks. That one on the left of the tailgate was the heaviest bird of the trip at a little over 19 pounds. His beard was pushing hard on 12 inches. I doubled on 11+" bearded birds that morning. I will probably never have that happen again in my life, but I had several things happen on that trip that I've never seen before in 15 years of turkey hunting. They may never happen again, who knows. Spurs were average. I think one of Stephen's had 1 1/8" and that was the longest. Most were either 7/8"s or an inch long. Some dull, some pointed.