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mullet:
Charlie;

 I think the older generation back in those days is the reason the NWTF is in existance, now. ;)

crooketarrow:
  He was BORN IN 1900 DIED IN 1998. Killed his first gobbler setting between his daddy legs at 7 the first one along at 8 killed his last at 96. THE LAST 2 YEARS HE WHEN HE NEVER EVEN TOOK A GUN JUST LET ME KILL THEM. He never missed a spring very seldom a day. He hunted 11 different states never missing WV,V,NC seasons. I've seen him go to gobbler camp out of state and you might not see him for weeks. He'd much rather call them up and let you or someone else kill it. 
     He told me that he really did start keeping count and saveing beards and spurrs untill 1931 so he said that # is way higher than 312 he said he did 'nt know but the #'s over 400 gobblers. He told me all through the TEENS though the1920's he killed turkeys just for food. And his best year was 16 , gobblers and hens 11  gobblers. That 24 years of not careing how many he killed. Not that he did'nt become a sportsman he was that and a lot more. He was true naterizest.  Never wrote any books could'nt even really read or write.
    He told me where he was from in past LURAY VA. THERE WERE NO WARDENS THEN and you just hunted when and where you wanted. The only one came around was the feds looking for there stills. He made shine for 40 years. HE HAD FRIENDS  KILL OVER 200 GOBBLERS THAT HE EITHER CALLED ALONG OR WAS IN ON IN SOME WAY. He had a friend on the VA line but in NC that owned a whole mountain that had killed over 500 TURKEYS in his life time and he did it in 62 springs and falls thats liveing turkeys. He said that over 400 were gobblers. But he did it in spring and fall. My grandad only spring killed his gobblers after the 1920's.

  I'm told all the time no way.

I know its hard to beleive but my brother has all his beards and spurrs 100's of pic's of camps,friends nad gobblers. The oldest in 1917 with him and his twine brother and his dad with 5 gobblers. 3 Of the gobblers were his. I GREW UP LIVEING BESIDE HIM from my birth to his death.
   He love squrril and rabbit hunt and we ran miles of trap lines year after year but the FUNNY THING WAS HE'S NEVER SHOOT A DEER he said where he was from if you saw a deer track a month it was big news. Watched me shoot buck after buck as a kid. He's go deer hunting but never load his gun never even take shells sometimes. Why who knows. But he was a true gobbler hunter,sportsman,nateralest. I know the #'s are hard to beleive BUT THERE TRUE . He was one of those people that had that hue ,attatute, or what eveR it is that just drew you to him at the same time he was a very simple man.
   Greatest man I've ever knew.

Dax:
Great memories you have, Crooketarrow...has to be nice to have known such a great individual who is a true testament to the many, many cultural changes of our 20th century...I've hunted with Ryan on several occasions myself and I can tell  you he knows his business and what you said is spot on with his philosophy on deer as it relates to letting them come on past...helped me get two selfbow mulies for sure.  Thanks for sharing your recollections of your grandfather's hunting success.

mullet:
Crooketarrow;

It was definatelly a different tera back then. I go to turkey camp every year in the Green Swamp just to talk to one of my friend's Dad. he is in his late 80's and has a hard time walking far but gets a bird most every year.

 Anybody that has hunted Osceola turkeys for a lot of years has heard the name of Lovett Williams and this gentleman has taught him a lot. We sat around last Saturday listening to him tell stories of the old days turkey hunting and he has killed over 400 also.

crooketarrow:
  My grandad had a friend in SOUTHER SC. LIVED AND HAD A GOBBLER CAMP AT A PLACE CALLED DARK CORNNER. As a kid growing up I can't remember him missing camp there well into the late 80's. He said he met MR LOVETT he called him in 1970 I think.
  DAX your right now you'd go to jail if you killed enough turkeys to help feed your family. He and some friends started abiding by hunting laws by 1940's. He said he knew people had to start abiding by the law just because of turkey populations going down in this hunting areas. Even thought there was only a couple hard core gobbler hunters in the states he hunted. Nothing like now.
By the time I was born in 61 he was a true sportsmen exspecially to the turkeys. I've never since
 then came across anyone that knew so much about everything agian exspecially turkeys.
  DAX thank you for your kind words.
 

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