Another TN Longbeard Down!!!

Well I decided to head to a dif farm this morning. Julie wanted to tag along so she brought the digital camera to try and capture the moment. It started out awesome. I and Julie arose at 430 this morn and headed out to the farm where the long steep and dreaded hike awaited us. We made it with plenty of time til daylight so we took a min to catch out breath. I go out and set up the decoys while she was setting up the blind. I got Swingin Hen and b mobile set up but I could not find his silk fan anywhere. I finally give up and just left him out there tailless. Anyway we waited that forever wait for daylight. As daylight was breaking I could hear a gobbler a longs ways off down in holler to our left. That was the only gobbler I heard on the roost. Then all of a sudden BOOOM!!!! 80 yards over the hill. I call out and AGAIN!!! 3 gobblers come up over the hill about 60 yards out all of them gobbling like nuts. Well for some reason they didn't like the setup. They started flipping their wings so I knew they were getting nervous. I called to them just for fun and to listen to em gobble as they walked down the fence row to the holler where we heard the roosted gobbler. Afterwards we debated whether or not to cut in the woods and try to get in front of them but decided against it. I did however go and get the tailless b mobile just in case that made a turkey wonder. I kept calling to those 3 and they answered my every call but got in that holler and set up camp. They wouldn't budge from wherever they was. Well as i was calling to those gobblers for my own amusement I hear some more gobbles behind us. I peak out of a tiny hole of the blind behind us and see a struttin fool come over the hill 200 yards out. I call and he gobbles rarely breaking strut. It took him for ever but he got about 20 yards behind us so i let out a yelp so julie could hear how close he was.. BOOOMMM!!! she nearly jumped out of her skin. I went ahead and stuck my gun out the window as he was behind us. He walked right by the blind at 5 yards and headed to the swingin hen decoy.... Julie got the camera on him just in time to see his last moments and falling short of his girlfriend. It was an absolute blast. I will try to get the short clip on here. I was having some problems with my mouth call but I will try to get an audio on here as well and you can hear those gobblers hammering. He had a 10 3/8s beard and 1.25 spurs. I was stoked





This is the audio. may have to turn it up to hear em gobbling

That is cool. I liked the short video of him heading towards the decoy and then your shotgun barking loud. Great bird! Well done Mr. Darius, you are having a great season.

Nice one!Congrats again!

Nice bird great story and video. Thanks for sharing.

Sweet, nice pics and I liked the vid clip to. Congrats again on smokin all them birds this year!