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Black bird, gold shell
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Cool, I like that.
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That's really cool. I'd have to do some type of mount with that one
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Rare bird for sure congrats .
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What gun did you shoot him with?
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Congrats on a very cool looking gobbler
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Thanks. Yildiz 20ga O/U, been a good one for me.
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Very nice
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That’s beautiful! Gonna have it mounted?
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Congrats on a beautiful bird!
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Very nice. Congrats
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Sweet& congrats :thumbup:
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Awesome bird and congratulations!
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Thanks.

I'm going to do a fan and wing just like the Osceola I have. Let people guess which is which. The other wing will go hunting. I used to carry a wing until a gobbler about turned inside out when he saw it lying beside me. Maybe the black one won't be noticed.
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howl wrote: April 12th, 2019, 10:02 pm Thanks. Yildiz 20ga O/U, been a good one for me.
What choke and load are you using i have been thinking about getting one thanks
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I've used different chokes and loads and had good luck all around. Only one it didn't like was the Stubby XL. I've posted plenty of info on it on this forum.
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Really nice bird! Congrats!! According to Lovett Williams, the black phase birds are the rarest of the color phases. A real trophy!
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Congrats! Great looking bird.

We killed one of those here in MT back in 2015.
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Missed this in April. Interesting bird. Never seen one with completely black primaries. Is the shell brass or plastic? Gil
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Hobbes_mobile wrote: May 21st, 2019, 10:10 pm Congrats! Great looking bird.

We killed one of those here in MT back in 2015.
That contrast is something else. Was there anything else unusual about the bird?
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GLS wrote: May 22nd, 2019, 8:21 am Missed this in April. Interesting bird. Never seen one with completely black primaries. Is the shell brass or plastic? Gil
Brass all the way for me these days! I didn't know color until I dashed up there. It tried to peak over the rise and ghost around. I couldn't see anything but head neck and fan. Dropped out of sight at the shot and didn't flop.

A fella down in FL once told me about an area in the Big Bend that had all black birds not much bigger than a chicken. He told it to be one swamp as the only place he would see them. No public land around of course.
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howl wrote: May 29th, 2019, 6:25 am
Hobbes_mobile wrote: May 21st, 2019, 10:10 pm Congrats! Great looking bird.

We killed one of those here in MT back in 2015.
That contrast is something else. Was there anything else unusual about the bird?
He had a darker look to him. You can see how dark the stripe on his fan is.
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Cool looking Gobbler. Congratulations
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Very unique bird indeed! Congrats
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