[multibeard]

My son and grandson came up on Sat to have there "guide" get them out turkey hunting. The grandson missed a jake 20 minutes out of the roost on Sat am.

We walked back to the truck where I heard a gobble across the road in an apple orchard. We set up in the apple orchard we were in and the long beard decided that he liked the cherry orchard next door better than the apples.

We see lots of turkeys in the cherry orchards as the trees are trimmed up high to allow the shakers to get around to harvest the cherries. The birds have over head cover but can see along ways under the trees as it is all mowed.

That was it until we went to my buddies place where the jakes went the other way around out of range of either of the guides CLIENTS. The guide ended up shooting one of them.

The next day we were back at the same spot, as my buddy called telling me he had 5 long beard in his yard 2 hours before dark. They ended up doing a loop and were roosted back on the other side of the road. After a mad dash my grandson and I (dad went back home Sat night) got set up only minutes before fly down.

It took some aggressive purring to turn the birds back our way after they started to head away. I saw two long beards head off to his left but could see three strutter's headed straight at him. When I looked he had his gun off to the left. All of a sudden a bird showed up right off his barrel at 9 yards.

The Ithaca super single 20 ga I bought him when he was 4 weeks old did the job for the third straight year. 22 lbs 10 inch beard 1 1/4 " spurs. This is the 6th bird taken by our group with in 3/4 mile of my buddies house.

For a kid that is being raised in down town Grand Rapids he is as cool as a cucumber when it comes to being able to make a move on a tom with out getting caught. This one he just let walk up to the barrel after he got turned 45*.

My almost 30 year combo of calls did the job again. Roger Latham True Tone Box and Perfection Super Double D diaphram. I was thrilled to see that Jim Clay was back making Perfection Turkey Calls calls again. the ones I had bought the last time I went to SE VA turkey hunting were just plain worn out.

After I get a few days rest I will be back out to try and get a bird in range of my 83 year old hunting buddy.