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| My Turkey I shot this year (spring 2005) with my shotgun. My husband and I were hunting an area south of Lancaster, Ohio and we heard this bird gobble as we exited the truck. We set up on him and he gobbled for what seemed like hours, My husband started calling to him and he flew down and landed on top of the hill and gobble all the way down to me giving me a good shot at 20 yards. Turkey hunting in the area of Ohio we live in is not easy and I have only harvested 2 birds in 7 years. This bird was very special since my husband was enjoying the hunt with me also. We headed out after putting this gobbler in the truck to call in a big Tom for him but we only had jakes come into the calls. Our whole family enjoyed Wild Turkey for Thanksgiving this year.
Lou Ann Weisenstein
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Brenda Valentine
Writer
The spring turkey limit in Texas is four birds and I took two of that limit this spring while hunting at the famed Rio Benito Ranch near Kerrville. The ranch is home to over 16 species of free-ranging animals that were stocked there in the 1920's. This elegant ranch is one-of-a-kind with it's bountiful cowboy and Indian history furthermore it is run by a very capable lady.
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Pat Hendrixson
12 lbs. 6 3/4" bearded hen
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Kimberly Kanapeckas
Writer
With my best friend along on her first hunt, I called in and harvested this beauty, a 20 lb. gobbler, 9.5 in. beard. Charis, it's your turn next, girl!
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Jackie & Steven Harker
Merriam Turkeys - New Mexico
Apr 2004
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Jackie Harker with Tracy
Rio Grande Turkey - Oklahoma April 2002
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Pat Hendrixson
From Southern Indiana March- 2004
Texas Rio Grande
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Pat Hendrixson
April - 2004 Taken at Camp.
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Pat Hendrixson
April - 2004
Old Gobbler taken in Tennessee
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Kathleen Griese
April, 2004 - Door County, WI. My carefully planned turkey hunt from the ground blind turned into an impromptu spot and stalk. After 45 minutes of slowly slipping through 50 yards of brush, muck and water I finally was in position. I only needed to get the birds about 20 yards closer. My box call did the trick and I placed the cross-hairs of my scope just below the jake's head. Seconds later it was over. 6" Beard, 1/2 Spurs, 15 lbs
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Alyssa Haukom
ProStaff/Writer
with her beautiful Wisconsin Tom. It has a 9 ½" beard, 1" spurs and weighs 23 ¼ lbs. Taken days after her Kansas Hunt with her T/C 12 gauge.
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Wanda Garner
with her beautiful Kansas Rio. It was a Super Jake Aprox. 15lbs
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Sharon Spence
with Bob
and her first turkey shot at 47 yards... 9 1/2" beard weighing 20 lbs.
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Brenda said "This is the TN turkey monster 32 lbs., 10 inch and 6 inch beards."
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The Killer Three; Debbie Carter, Brenda Valentine & Marti Davis
Debbie and Marti shot these two turkeys on Easter Day 2003 in Puryear, Tennessee. Brenda called them in real close for us.
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Brenda Valentine
Writer
with a 2003 Spring turkey 24 lbs., 10 1/2 inch beard, and 1 1/4 inch spurs. Brenda said "I called him in at 5:30 pm and shot him with a 12 gauge Thompson Center shotgun using 3inch, number 5, Remington Hevi-Shot ammo."
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Michelle Ward - 2003
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Marti Davis
I called in this turkey and a buddy of his on April 29, 2003. They came in right after flying down off the roost and only one of them left at 6:45 a.m. I was hunting in Willard, Missouri.
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Janice Gendron
Here is a picture of Janice Gendron & turkey this year, it won the local big gobbler contest, it had three beards, 2 over 9" and one over 4", it wieghed 23.5 pounds and had 1" spurs, it was by far her biggest bird ever, we are so proud of her.This bird was taken with a Remington 1100 youth model 20 gauge.
2003
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Angie Kjellberg
took a Jake at 15 yards with a Remington 870 youth model 20 gauge.
May 2003
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Marti Davis
click here to read article
with her very unusal bearded hen from Bourbon County, Kansas. She had a 9 1/4" beard and weighed 11 lb. 7 oz.
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Angie Kjellberg
with her first Jake, taken with a 870 Remington in '99
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