Montana Bird

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Yesterday morning I spotted three birds strutted up and on a hen out in the open. I was able to sneak down along the creek bottom and get within about 150 yards. I set up a couple of decoys and started calling, and two birds started heading my way.

They hung up at about 25 yards, and I could clearly see that one of them was a jake, but couldn't see the beard on the 2nd bird due to the topography. Finally, I decided they weren't going to get any closer, but the 2nd bird looked a little bigger body-wise than the jake, so I took a chance that he would be a decent tom.

8" beard, 1" spurs.

 

[shoots-straight]

Very nice bird. Congrats.

 

[Trigger50]

Beautiful Tom !

 

[rjlefty3]

That's a beautiful bird!

 

[1_pointer]

Very nice! Love the color on that one.

 

[PatrickK]

Nice bird!

Patrick

 

[Nameless Range]

Very cool bird.

Congrats!

 

[Festus]

Great looking bird.
Congrats.

 

[Rocky176]

Great bird, looks like a full fan. How long was the beard?

 

[Reeltime]

Gorgeous bird! These west side mutts are fugly compared to the birds from the other side of the state!

 

[Uncle Bucky]

Beautiful bird.. Montana has Merriams ?

 

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