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Author Topic: 2600 mile Osceola  (Read 938 times)

Offline charles suttles

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2600 mile Osceola
« on: March 30, 2012, 01:47:00 PM »


    Last year was the 1st 1300 miles[N.C.to Polk county, Florida and return]. Upon arrival, I received a call from home that a family member had passed away and I immediatly had to return. The owner of the ranch,Bill Whidden told me I could come back this year at no charge.

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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2012, 02:06:00 PM »
A beauty!  Congrats!  Sorry that the first hunt was interrupted by a death of someone close but the wait probably made this bird even sweeter.
The season gave him perfect mornings, hunter's moons and fields of freedom found only by walking them with a predator's stride.
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2012, 02:10:00 PM »
Great success photo Charles, but we do need the story to go with it!  
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #3 on: March 30, 2012, 02:11:00 PM »
Congrats!    :thumbsup:
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #4 on: March 30, 2012, 02:15:00 PM »
Good to have chatted albeit briefly and congrats a 2nd time!

You are one turkey hunting addict for sure, Charles!  You need a Rio to go with that now!  :)
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #5 on: March 30, 2012, 02:18:00 PM »
Very nice Charles.  Hope to see you next Saturday at our CTA club shoot.

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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #6 on: March 30, 2012, 02:19:00 PM »
Talk about going the extra mile...LOL Congrats on a fine looken bird,does it taste like 3600 miles worth of bird.   :goldtooth:
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2012, 02:33:00 PM »
Way to go!  What generosity!
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2012, 02:43:00 PM »
Sorry about the passing away of your family member...glad everything worked out for you.     :thumbsup:
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2012, 03:06:00 PM »
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2012, 03:31:00 PM »

              Osceola Country
  I left home last Fri. at 4:00 am and arrived at the property around 3:30 pm. Mr Whidden was out of town but told me the gate codes and a couple of places to check out. By the way, I had posted on TG in winter of 2010 for info and TG member Earl J Thomas referred me to this place

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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2012, 03:33:00 PM »
Congrats on the bird beautiful.  And looks like great country to be at.

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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2012, 03:33:00 PM »
Very cool Nice Bird man
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2012, 04:00:00 PM »

   This is the 2nd spot Bill had told me about and there were a zillion turkey tracks in the sand. It was the NW corner of the ranch and was definatly a  travel area for the turkeys moving from ranch to ranch. I made two trips back to my vehicle and had my blind set up at 5:30 PM with my decoy Hazel, 7 yds from my blind, smack in the middle of the trail

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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #14 on: March 30, 2012, 04:18:00 PM »

  Here's a view of my blind as seen from my decoy. I had not taken the time to brush it.

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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #15 on: March 30, 2012, 04:51:00 PM »
I had just sanded my slate call and laid it down when i realized there were 2 hens and a jake at my blind. As I reached for my bow I saw a tom in 1/2 strut come in to view,my arrow took him in the thigh as he was quartering away and went on into the vitals. he was able to hobble about 15yds and went down without flopping. This was my 1st kill with a silver flame. My Osceola hunt was over in less than 10 mins.

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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #16 on: March 30, 2012, 04:56:00 PM »
Sweet...nice bird.    :thumbsup:
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #17 on: March 30, 2012, 05:38:00 PM »
Awesome! I love it when a plan comes together. Now you have time for some hog hunting.

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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #18 on: March 30, 2012, 07:22:00 PM »
Congrats!! Nice bird.    :thumbsup:
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Re: 2600 mile Osceola
« Reply #19 on: March 30, 2012, 07:24:00 PM »
Awesome!
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