Florida deja vu all over again

[joey46]

For the 17th year my long time hunting buddy and I opened the Florida north zone at a cypress swamp in south central Florida.  This year most of our usual spots were ankle deep in water.  We set up in a higher spot and waited for first light.  Pretty quiet until the crows woke up.  Then a few distant gobbles.  Then three jakes waltzed in and stood around for at least twenty minutes eyeing my Funky Chicken decoy.  When they heard a gobble, then a closer gobble, then a real close gobble they slipped off.  This big boy came in behind three hens and started a strut, walked off a little, was called back and made the mistake of getting to within 33 steps of Larry's 12 ga loaded with some Apex 8/10 TSS. He may have flopped once.   20# 2oz, 10 1/2" beard, some of the biggest spurs we've taken since our 2008 Florida Registry bird from the same area. I usually have more opportunities to hunt than Larry so we packed up and headed back.  Hope the pictures load.  Good luck to all.

[Sungrazer]

Very cool.
Agreed pics on this forum are...

[runngun]

That is great!!! Always look forward to seeing your pictures and post!!! Thanks for taking the time to share this with us.

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[backforty]

Congrats on the great bird


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[1iagobblergetter]

Congrats!! Thats Awesome! Florida is a bucket list hunt for me!

[Treerooster]

Congrats on the gobbler. Sounds like a cool hunt.

Resize pictures before posting. There are sites that resize them, pretty easy to do. I think Shannon may have added one recently.

[jdl80]

Nice bird!  All of Florida is under water pretty much. I've been having to wear hip waders in spots that were dry sand last season...

[Tnandy]

Man alive, those are some daggers! Congratulations

[Tom007]

Congrats!

[zelmo1]

Congrats to you both Joey, great start. Z

[Turkeybutt]

Joey thanks for sharing the pics bud, we appreciate it.
Congrats to Larry on a fine bird and a great hunt for the two of you.
Now go out and get your bird and be sure to share some photos!

[eggshell]

here's your first pic resized

[PharmHunter]

Great stuff!

[M,Yingling]

Nice !!  Congrats


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[eggshell]

Thanks for the resize.  What app?  I'm not thrilled with any I've used so far.

This what I used, it's free and simple. https://imageresizer.com/