Title: Alabama success, 3rd times the charm.
Post by: Roost 1 on March 17, 2019, 01:49:07 PM
Post by: Roost 1 on March 17, 2019, 01:49:07 PM
Weather was much better today. Low 40s but very little wind. Found this bird yesterday on a hardwood ridge and actually bumped the hens on top and as they ran down to the bottom this bird gobbled one time. Decided it might be best to just leave them alone and come back in the morning if no better option available. Found lots of tracks leading to a food plot on another place so my buddy decided he would hunt that spot this morning and I would go back to the hardwood ridge. Eased in well before daylight and set up in a blowdown I had marked yesterday. He never gobbled but I heard birds fly down below me. Knowing their were a bunch of hens, I thought better of calling and decided to scratch in the leaves some. About 35-40 minutes after flydown I heard him spitting and drumming below the crest of the ridge so I scratched a few more times. Heard him drum twice more getting closer just as a hen popped over the ridge, then 2 more hens, 3 more hens and then i saw the top of his fan.. thank goodness for that blowdown and that I thought to mark the location. He strutted to about 35yds and never knew i was there. This was my 3rd trip to hunt Alabama, some of the toughest hunting I've ever done.
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Title: Re: Alabama success, 3rd times the charm.
Post by: hookedspur on March 17, 2019, 03:31:36 PM
Post by: hookedspur on March 17, 2019, 03:31:36 PM
:morning:Congrats Roost nice bird..
Title: Re: Alabama success, 3rd times the charm.
Post by: GobbleNut on March 17, 2019, 06:58:35 PM
Post by: GobbleNut on March 17, 2019, 06:58:35 PM
Congrats! Good to see someone getting us rolling!
Title: Re: Alabama success, 3rd times the charm.
Post by: ThunderChickenHunter21 on March 17, 2019, 09:58:07 PM
Post by: ThunderChickenHunter21 on March 17, 2019, 09:58:07 PM
Heck yeah nice bird 
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Title: Re: Alabama success, 3rd times the charm.
Post by: snapper1982 on March 18, 2019, 07:38:37 PM
Post by: snapper1982 on March 18, 2019, 07:38:37 PM
congrats buddy!
Title: Re: Alabama success, 3rd times the charm.
Post by: ScottS on March 18, 2019, 07:47:30 PM
Post by: ScottS on March 18, 2019, 07:47:30 PM
Congrats dude! Sounds like it was an awesome hunt
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Title: Re: Alabama success, 3rd times the charm.
Post by: wvmntnhick on March 21, 2019, 04:51:20 PM
Post by: wvmntnhick on March 21, 2019, 04:51:20 PM
You're on the board tho man and we'll take it. Congrats bud.
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Title: Re: Alabama success, 3rd times the charm.
Post by: whiskey on March 21, 2019, 06:31:40 PM
Post by: whiskey on March 21, 2019, 06:31:40 PM
Congrats buddy! I'm headed down this weekend. Hope there's a bird hanging around.