My zone 9 gobbler

**keahunter** · April 23, 2013

Spent the entire day on Monday looking for a bird but couldn't get a gobble. Then today, as soon as the sky started getting a little light, I heard gobbling from an adjacent property. I sat in my blind and made a few calls but received no reply. I would call and then wait for about 10 minutes. I repeated this for about 45 minutes when, after one sequence I received a reply. I waited a bit before answering and when I did, the gobble sounded closer. The bird was certainly coming in to my calls. We talked to each other and I heard him getting closer and closer, but he wasn't alone. The gobbles now sounded so I loud it was though they were in the blind with me. I stopped calling and after a few minutes I caught the movement of three gobblers coming in to my calls from my right side. The three were close together so I had to wait for some separation. When the one I thought was the biggest separated from the group I squeezed the trigger and he fell. The other two didn't even flinch. They gobbled and then did a dance on the body of the bird I had just shot. This went on for about 5 minutes until they got tired of it and walked off, gobbling the whole way. The bird has a 9 1/2" beard, 1" spurs and weighed in at 23 pounds. My nicest turkey to date.