Double beard!!!


ccwhitey

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I went to Nell's (Parkergirl) grandpa's ground today just to blow off some steam since I have been working my tail off for the past two weeks. Not expecting much I was happy just to get away from the college dorm life. Went out and it was windy just like it always is when I go there. This is the same ground that Nell was able to harvest her huge bird so I was a little bit excited. We got out there a little later than I would have wanted to but it didn't make much difference because not a single bird gobbled on the roost. Finally I decided to give the ol' box call a try since it was so windy. One actually answered but this turned out to be a dead end. All he wanted to do was gobble on a open field that we didn't have permission to hunt on. Three different hens went to him so I decided that he was a bust till late morning and decided to head to the truck at 8:00 to get something to drink. Her dad was at the truck and said that he thought that he heard a gobble a few minutes before we got to the truck in the timber behind him. Not thinking much of it I gave a yep and was suprised that one actually answered me about a quarter mile away. Seperating us was a huge revine. We were talking for about a minute on where we should set up and I gave another call just to see where he was at. Surprisenly he gobbled not a 150 ydrs off and had already crossed the big ravine that was seperating us. So we just sat down where we were and not 30 seconds later Nell says that she saw him RUNNING through the woods to get to us:eek: He came up in a weird place and I turned to look at him to make sure it was a longbeard. Well I don't know if he saw me look because we didn't have time to find good cover or what but he broke strut and turned tail to run. I swung my gun over and sent the 3.5 in 6 shot right at him. Unfortunately I blew one of his wings almost completely off and had to shot again. I thought that I got a respectible bird with a 9.5 in beard, 1 1/16 and 1 1/8 spur, 22 lbs bird but it turns out that he was a double beard:eek::eek: First beard 9.5 and second 9 in. The worse part is that I did not even realize that I got a once in a lifetime bird until I received a phone call 2.5 hrs later saying that I was dumb becuase I didn't even realize what I got. I don't have a picture of the beards because I went back to school which is 2 hrs away from where I got the bird. I will try to have Nell take a pic tomorrow because she is already done with school and the beard is home.

Safe to say that this has been my best year ever. I was able to call in a bird for a friend on opening day of second season at 7:30 then call in another bird on a different piece of ground at 12:34 for myself. Then the next weekend I got Nell her first bird and boy was that a bird:D:D To top off my season I was able to get a second turkey for the year and it was a double beard. As you can tell I'm still excited and I killed it at 8:30 this morning because this is the longest post I have ever make. Sorry for the long post. I'll post more pics once Nell loads them since this is the only one I have.

Jared

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