PERSISTENCE PAYS OFF

The shell that did it, Winchester Xtended Range, 3 1/2 inch no. 5 shot



My neck is injured



The damage was extensive from only 25 yards



Something happened to my fan


I have been turkey hunting a lot. This is the second year I have tried it and the first year I have tried calling. I have had birds in gun range but I was hunting with a bow. I have had lots of birds who would gobble but not come in. I have had birds close but the brush was so thick you could not shoot. And I have had birds that happened to be on property I could not go on.

Today it all came together and I was back at the truck at 6:08 am! I went to a spot in Ozark that a friend of mine owns where I had called a group of gobblers for almost an hour yesterday. I got in before light and had a gobbler on a ridge to my right that would gobble but not move. I changed strikers and here he came. When he was getting pretty close a turkey on my left comes down from a tree. He had never made a sound. He immediately heads straight toward the decoys and I can see he is a juvenile gobbler with a beard. I said to myself, "Well that is that". One shot of 3 1/2 magnum twelve gauge and he was a goner. I scooped up all my stuff and the turkey and headed to the truck.

I was home before it started raining eating turkey breast.

Three questions:

1) Did you know Katie is now 26?

2) Would you eat wild turkey?

3) Did you know Chrysler might pull Youngblood's franchise?

Bye for now,
Shane

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