“North-Forty’s First Longbeard”

About four years after the first wild turkey flock wandered onto the North-Forty we had three gobblers and a couple of jakes. On a rainy morning, and with a day or two left in the season, the first longbeard in modern times fell to an English double barrel percussion shotgun, the same gun I used for sporting clays and quail walk competitions. What an unforgettable thrill…