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- Oct 26, 2005
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Had a great hunt! Had turkeys all around me. Gobbling and hen clucks all over the trees in front of me along a bluff. Had a Tom sneak up on my left front, then walk across in front of me at almost first light. Then had a jake fly over my decoys then walk back to the decoys and look around for a bit. Then the real excitement started. I had 3 Toms come down a tree line about 30 yards across from me on my right, then 3 more Toms came up the tree line on my right. All 6 birds were directly across from me at about 30 yards when they got into a fight and spilled out into the field in front of me. It was just like you see in the videos, they were all running around each other, jumping up and slapping each other with their wings. Had to wait until one got a little off to the side to shoot or I would have killed 2 or 3 :twisted: (I did wait.) After I shot 3 of the birds stuck around and spurred the Tom I had shot and gobbled when I would call. They stuck around for about 5 minutes, they were nervous but just didn't seem to know what to with the bird flopping on the ground and me calling at them. Then they slowly walked off. Man what a hunt. I sure would have liked to have that hunt on tape even though it only lasted about 30 minutes from the time I sat down to the time I was putting the bird into my vest I believe one of the Toms in the fight was the one that had snuck up from my left because they came from the direction he had gone and I could see him strutting over that direction for a couple of minutes. Man what a hunt. If my memory fails please let me keep that one.
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Don
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Don