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Doug Crabtree
Bags his Eastern -- And the FIRST Grand Slam in 2004
 
Ohio on Opening Day 2004
(Monday, April 26)
Doug Crabtree was several
minutes late getting to his hunting area at the same "Reclaim" that we
both got Eastern's on opening day last year
(that hunt was Doug's grand slam
bird for 2003}. He set up 200 yards shy of our previous location.
After daylight some gobblers
and hens flew down in the pines and went directly to the "Reclaim". A large
dominate longbeard strutted on a bench a little above where we had been
a year ago. Doug called but the longbeard didn't come within bow range.
2nd Day: Way before
daylight Doug set his Double Bull blind on the bench where the longbeard
had strutted.
Gobbles!!! In the nearby
pines. 15 times.
Birds flew down. Doug called.
He heard a mature gobbler going the other way, down hill to a creek.
Quiet, for 10 minutes.
Gobble!!! The voice of a
big bird.
Doug called.
He answered and 3 minutes
later he gobbled 00 closer. Two minutes more and Doug saw the longbeard
in the pines 80 yards away.
Doug called with hen yelps
and clucks. The blew up and strutted to the edge of the field. Doug took
the
longbeards picture.
When the Tom saw the decoys
he broke down and walked to the them.
Doug shot the longbeard
at 8 steps, hitting it at the base of the neck. The bird dropped -- never
flopped. Doug checked it in, it weighed 17 pounds, had a 9 1/2" beard and
1" spurs.
Doug Crabtree put the 4th
bird on the ground and is the first of the 4x4 Grand Slammers to get his
Grand Slam. Cool.
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