We killed 3 in 2 1/2 days of hunting in Florida. Those swamp birds make an Eastern look easy. They don't gobble past 10. Rarely gobble going to roost. The cover is thick as hell. Suckers disappear and reappear like a magician. I shot my bird at 8 yards. Saw it at 20. Didn't see it again until it stepped out.

While trying to get from a western area of the land to the eastern, trying to get on a bird it took me literally me 30 minutes to go 200 feet. Belly crawling to get through places and crawling up on huge piles of bear chit. Palms and briars everywhere. A few places were burned, which made it nice......but we never saw birds in those areas. Planning to go back again next year for one with big hooks. I want one with 1.75+" spurs.

Dad has killed plenty of Easterns, but has never been OOS to hunt turkeys. He has always talked about the slam, and I told him to piss on his garden Preperstions for a weekend or two and make the trip to kill them all in one season. Glad he took me up on the offer.