Tragic End To A Great Gobbler..

[redarrow]

Tegfans post   http://oldgobbler.com/Forum/index.php/topic,1889.0.html    reminded me of this gobbler my hunting buddy and I found on the farm we hunt. It looks like it bailed out of the roost and slammed into a forked tree.We took pics then cut the tree down for some close ups. 12 inch beard and small spurs. I had posted this before but it was lost to the great meltdown.

This is how we found him


After we cut the tree down

Hard to tell which old gobbler is uglier

My buddy Greg.

[GAbird]

  always hate to see it go down in a situation like that

[knightrider]

sad for the bird, but a pretty neat find non the less

[letinmfly]

Found one exactly in that same situation about 8 years ago.  What a horrible death!!

[knightrider]

showed these pics to the wife she said'maybe he was having woman troubles and could no longer take it'

[deerhunt1988]

Wow! That is quite the find..

[hookedspur]

Ive seen them in a fence but thats the first one Ive ever seen in a tree

[TrackeySauresRex]

Sad indeed..I wonder how manny deaths occur like that. Flying into trees etc.

[vaturkey]

  NOW THATS A HUNGUP GOBBLER  !!!

[BOFF]

sad for the bird, but a pretty neat find non the less

x2

Thanks for reposting the story.

God Bless,
David B.

[FullChoke]

Incredible. I might have to have one mounted like that!

FullChoke

[Gobble!]

that is awesome

[BamaStrut]

I hate it when stuff like that happens.

[VA_Birdhunter]

what a way to go! Thats crazy.  I grouse hunt a lot and have seen some grouse that has die by flying into limbs.  I actually killed one that had a huge splinter from a limb still stuck in it.

[PANYHunter]

Cool pics.  Thanks for re-posting.