Florida Double on St. Paddy's Day

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joey46
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Florida Double on St. Paddy's Day

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We missed the Saturday opener but were set up by 6:30am Sunday morning. Larry (on right in pics) and I have hunted together for years and always try and open the season in a cypress swamp near Avon Park, Fl. Due to an unusually wet winter much of our normal set up spots were ankle deep in water. We knew this going in and had picked a few alternate high ground spots in the immediate area. While still dark gobblers were answering owl hoots. By first light hens were cutting and yelping. We had placed four decoys near where we sat side by side behind some camo netting. At 7:45am a hen walked out and was shortly followed by two strutters. The gobblers locked in on our jake strutter decoy and strutted in. Now it gets really interesting.
Due to a temporary medical condition Larry could not shoot from his normal left side. He had said he would only call and observe this outing. Good intentions :lol: . I shot my bird at 16 yards and the second bird fatally decided to not run away but to instead rush up and start pecking at the now "flopper". Larry whispered that maybe he would try a right shoulder shot. I jacked in a second shell, passed him my gun, and when the survivor started to walk off Larry dropped him at about 30 yards. Fun day.
Mine - 16# 7", Larry's 18# 10". My first shell out was a Federal TSS #7, the second shell out was a Browning TSS 7/9 duplex. At 16 and 30 yards the TSS was overkill.
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Outstanding hunt. Nice birds. Congratulations to both of you!South Florida has some funny weather, water when there should be much, and we are hunting further south and the prairies are crispy dry.
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Congrats to both y'all.
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Congrats. Nicely done. 🤟
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Now that's turkey hunting and sharing all the way!! :thumbup:
Congrats on a perfect hunt :cheers:
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Good deal great job
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Well done Congrats !
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Well done. Congrats.
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Good Times...congrats
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