
20 ga, 7/9 tss. Maybe 15 or so
South Carolina public land mountain bird this morning.
It was quite the hunt. As light was breaking, a bobcat, 20 inches or taller, walked within 15 feet of me. I bleated at it with my mouth and the joker just looked at me, I thought I was gonna have to waste one of my TSS loads on it. Haha. That that guy was so big I heard it coming in, and it rained last night.
I heard this bird a half mile away, down in a bottom, while perched up on a mountain. Heading down toward It. I wasn’t positive it it was on public, thankfully it was.
I got to watch it strut and come toward my decoy for almost 100 yards. It was dancing and preening, dragging its feathers and drumming all the way in, it was a straight up epic display.
Really the whole morning was EPIC, that’s a pretty good word to describe it. I’m thankful!!