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This thread is becoming torture...
_________ BrentD, (Professor - just for Stan) ![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/qclHjMQ.jpg)
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I hunted all day yesterday and finally hemmed up a nice one just before dark. Three year old bird with 10.5" paintbrush style beard and spurs sharp enough to cut me up while carrying him out of the Alapaha River swamp to the truck. Sleeping in this morning, turkey hunting is hard work for old guys...Geo The pic is blurry, but the gun is a 12ga FEG:  I'm a little concerned about this picture. That's back at the camp with my son posing my bird and me standing behind. The sun was setting just back of us and seems to create a sort of halo around my head. Man I hope that ain't some kind of omen!:  Brent, I weighed him for you; 18 pounds just like all the rest of them! Geo, That FEG really brings home the bacon for you! Congrats!
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Just out of curiosity, what is an FEG?
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Thanks. Just learned something. 
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They typically have ejectors (which I believe can be turned off and used as extractors with some sort of a switch) and can be had for a relatively cheap price.
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They typically have ejectors (which I believe can be turned off and used as extractors with some sort of a switch) and can be had for a relatively cheap price. On mine, the ejector mechanism is in a removable box located in the forend. Press the spring loaded button and the whole thing drops out in your hand (hopefully) and it becomes an extractor. Most of them I've seen the ejector box is absent. Things that come off guns are not a great idea IMHO...Geo
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Went to a favorite spot on public land which was recently burned. It's a longleaf pine hill bordering a swamp. Birds started up at 7:00 a.m., three came in and 2 left at 7:15. Sometimes it's easy. In my haste to get out of the woods and back home, while reeling up the string he came in on, string got tangled up on burned palmetto fronds, abandoned and the key to success fell out of my pocket so they aren't in the photos. American Wild Turkey shot with Chinese shot (1 5/8 oz. TSS9) out of an Italian hull, through a Russian 20 ga. Baikal MP-18 single-shot, aimed with a Burris red dot Fast Fire III made in the Philippines. Called in with a rivercane "yelper" made from rivercane cut during the woodcock season. Beard not much, left spur 1 5/16 inch; right, 1 1/4". Gil  
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Great bird Gil! Those spurs could hurt you...Geo
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Gasp! Chinese shot! Just kidding...
Great bird Gil! You guys make it look so easy...
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