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From: roa@davinci.acc.virginia.edu ("Robert O. Anderson Jr")
Newsgroups: rec.hunting
Subject: Spring Gobbler Season
Message-ID: <1991May9.070753.6737@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
Date: 9 May 91 12:07:53 GMT
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      I was going to wait until the season was over, but.....I 
didn't have much to do, so......
      Really haven't had a chance to "go" turkey hunting as
Little League baseball seems to schedule my son's games on Saturdays...
So I had to settle with walking behind the house. Oh well....
      The season opened Saturday, April 13th and so did the heavens.
Heard one gobble about 7:30.....I guess he was as wet as I was.
16th - Didn't hear a thing.
17th - Heard three gobble on the river bottom.. they started gobbling
      about 6:07. Heard one shot down there about 7:15.
18th - Didn't hear a thing.
23rd - Didn't hear a thing.
25th - Flushed one off the roost in some pines. Heard two gobble about
      7:30. Called in one hen....or she was just passing by.
May 
1st - Flushed two off the roost.....had a jake fly to me..didn't shoot.
4th - Called in two for Ricky....thought he'd gone to sleep...I had
      my finger curled around the trigger when his gun went off(7:00 AM).
      It was his first spring bird. He was excited.
7th - Didn't hear a thing. We heard one land near us, but didn't see
      anything.
8th - Didn't hear a thing.

The season ends on the 18th. Hope to have something worth posting...

Bobby