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Florida Turkey Hunting Tales |
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| Name: |
Aaron Pritchard |
| Location: |
Osceola Co., FL |
| Time: |
3/22/03 7:30am |
| Subspecies:
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Florida (Osceola) |
| Weight: |
17 lb. 5 oz. |
| Beards: |
9 1/2" |
| Spurs |
1 3/8" & 1 3/8" |
| Distance: |
18 yards |
| Decoys: |
3 Delta dekes..1 hot hen, feeding
hen and hot jake |
| Calls Used:
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H.S. Strut Lil Deuce Slate Call |
| I set up in a cypress swamp at first light.
I had two Gobblers fired up on the roost
about 200 yards away. I called ever so lightly
and moved in to close the distance some.
After 10 minutes, he was on the ground and
still gobbling. I had closed the distance
to within 50 yards but could not get a visual.
Then.......he shut up.
I decided to play hard to get and backed
up 50 yards, set up my dekes, and called
very softly. No response for over a half
hour. Then, out at 50 yards I see a red
head pop up out of the grass. He made
his way in very slow and closed the distance
to under 20 yards.
I took him!!!!! A very nice public land
Gobbler.
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