First day home bird

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First day home bird

Postby duckbuster330 » Tue Apr 07, 2015 5:00 am

I work offshore and in Houston so I missed the two weeks before to do any scouting and the first two weeks of season this year the way my rotation fell. So I wasn't really expecting the first few days to be more than scouting sessions. I got home last Wednesday and went Thursday morning. My dad said he had heard one from the back porch a week before I got home around my 40 acres I have so I decided to go there. He gobbled about 640i n a reed break on my aunts 40 next to mine. And continued to gobble at everything that made a noise until he flew down. At 700 he pitched down in the thinned pines about 100 yards to me left and put on a show for the next 45 minutes. After a little calling and a lot of neck strains he finally saw the decoy under the hill and made his way in range and I put my hands on him at 730. 10" beard 1 1/4" 19 lbs
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Re: First day home bird

Postby msudawg8087 » Tue Apr 07, 2015 7:07 am

Heck of a bird. Congrats!
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Re: First day home bird

Postby donia » Tue Apr 07, 2015 7:19 am

congrats!
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Re: First day home bird

Postby BBR12 » Tue Apr 07, 2015 6:34 pm

Nice bird, Congrats!!!
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Re: First day home bird

Postby Johnboy114 » Thu Apr 09, 2015 8:52 pm

Not much better than that. Where in the gulf you working?
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Re: First day home bird

Postby duckbuster330 » Sat Apr 18, 2015 9:09 am

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