I took this gobbler the first day 4/28 at 815 am. I was hunting with one of my brothers, I usually call and let whomever is with me shoot. However my brother forgot his license so I called and shot.
The weather was average temp and raining. We got to our location about 30 minutes before light and listened. We located two gobblers and set up between them. I got two new wood pot custom slate calls, and because of the weather, could not use them. So, I used a Hooks mouth call along with clucks and purrs on a Primos Power Crystal with a Primos acrylic striker. I carry this call for rainy weather. I called for a couple of hours without calling anything in. My brother had to get to work at 9 so we left doing some scouting on the way out. We got to about 300 yards from the vehicle, at about 800 am, and my brother told me to call and see if I get an answer. Switching mouth calls, I put in a Primos Double Diamond mouth call, and yelped. No answer was received, so I cut aggressively and received a gobble for an answer. We set up and I made cuts and yelps with the same mouth call and clucks and purrs with the Power Crystal. In about fifteen minutes the gobbler came into gun range, heading for my lone hen decoy. I shot it at about 35 yards with a Mossberg 500 stock x full choke, and Federal Premium high velocity flight control wad 5 shot. The bird specs are 8" even beard, .75" spurs, and 20 pounds.
I could not get real nice pictures of the bird because it was wet. At home I dressed my 5 month old first child (boy) in his winter coat and hat (which happen to be camo and legal orange), and got some pictures with him. Even if the bird was not wet I planned on using a picture with my boy. I am a very proud dadad. Also, I think this picture would look good under a custom glass surface pot call.
I waited to post the picture because I had two tags, and I wanted to see if I got a better picture with my boy and a bigger bird. I called in a large bird for one of my brothers but did not get a picture with my boy, and did not like the pictures as well. Later, I will post a pic or a couple and a story of that bird, but not in the contest thread.