First Bird

[N caines]

Been getting up 4:30 every day for the last week and today was the last day for a while I could get out.
Heard birds all week and had a Tom two jakes and 3 hens fly down just out of range so I pilled some sticks up in a blind yesterday for this morning.

Got there and the turkeys had roosted in a different area but still not far away. By 6:45 I was getting fed up as I needed to be out of the woods by 7:30ish

I crawled about 20yards to see if anything was in the field and hit the box call immediately 2 responses but one was way closed then the other. I set my gun on top of a rotten stumped and payed down behind it. But like always tommy Turkey came out behind me. As he he stepped behind the tree my ground blind was made around I turned and let him have it with the 20ga dropped him one step from the blind
7am and I was out of the woods
19.8lbs
8.5inch beard
One inch spurs

[twostroke]

gotta love when a plan comes together..congrats

[mr meat]

Congrats!!

[mbhunter]

Well done sir!

[outback]

After a long week you get a good quick hunt for your first bird, very good.

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