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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: turkeydancer on May 02, 2010, 02:54:25 PM

Title: My turkey hunt with Jeff Mayor
Post by: turkeydancer on May 02, 2010, 02:54:25 PM: Below is a link to the article in today's Sunday Tacoma News Tribune about my tukrey hunt with Jeff Mayor:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/05/02/1171157/stalking-turkey-going-after-gobblers.html (http://www.thenewstribune.com/2010/05/02/1171157/stalking-turkey-going-after-gobblers.html)

Jeff's and my gobblers were both 19-1/2 lbs, 8-1/2 inch beards and 3/4" spurs.
Title: Re: My turkey hunt with Jeff Mayor
Post by: fishunt247 on May 02, 2010, 03:16:36 PM: Good writeup. Glad to hear you got one.
Title: Re: My turkey hunt with Jeff Mayor
Post by: turkey slayer on May 02, 2010, 03:19:06 PM: Great story
Title: Re: My turkey hunt with Jeff Mayor
Post by: Drifterat on May 02, 2010, 04:09:38 PM: Is Jeff Mayor as much of a gomer in person as he seems to be in print?
Title: Re: My turkey hunt with Jeff Mayor
Post by: turkeydancer on May 02, 2010, 05:28:07 PM: Thanks guys ...

Jeff is really a very nice guy, just a little lacking in hunting and other outdoor experience which he is trying to make up for ... just remember they say "you can't judge a book by it's cover" ...
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Title: Re: My turkey hunt with Jeff Mayor
Post by: fishunt247 on May 02, 2010, 05:56:15 PM: I couldn't figure out how to say that nicely, so I didn't say it. He sort of sounds like a Patrick McManus character...which may be considered a compliment too. :) I try not to judge; I've been humbled too many times.
Title: Re: My turkey hunt with Jeff Mayor
Post by: ICEMAN on May 02, 2010, 07:40:53 PM: Al, fyi, your article was also in today's Daily Olympian. You are famous now!
Title: Re: My turkey hunt with Jeff Mayor
Post by: carpsniperg2 on May 02, 2010, 07:47:11 PM: nice story
Title: Re: My turkey hunt with Jeff Mayor
Post by: turkeydancer on May 03, 2010, 06:35:50 PM: Thanks Iceman et al (also hit Bellingham Herald, USA, etc) ... not as nuts as the front page article in the Kitsap Sun 1-1/2 years ago that went coast to coast, then international, plus calls from 3 radio stations, and then closing the King 5 news that went to NWCN, Utube, Yahoo, etc ... but was kind of a cute article ... still all very unreal for me as I'm just a turkey hunter that was just taking a friend on a hunt.
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