BOWHUNT FOR THE FLORIDA OSCEOLA
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 A Double For Kindell Keeton and Brett Berry

Kindell Keeton
Kindell arrived after dark on Friday with Greg Metz. Opening morning Kindell and Brett Berry went with Mike Pusar to an orange grove. They heard one gobble and a hen clucking.

This afternoon Kindell and Brett moved to a hammock at 3:45 and got set up. They waited 15 minutes and Kindell yelped with the mouth call and Brett answered on a Woodhaven Real Hen box call. A hen answered, yelping and cutting.

Kindell continued to call and the hen's sounds moved closer. Kindell caught a glimpse of 5 jakes following a hen. They circled around behind the blind and they saw them walking away. The two kept calling and Brett asked Kindell if he could purr aggressively on the diaphragm. Kindell said, "yea," and started doing it while Brett slapped his leg. It sounded like a turkey fight and the jakes stopped. Their heads turned bright red, white and blue and they turned and came running.

The jakes stopped 5 yards from the blind and looked all around for the fight. They saw the decoy and walked to it.

Kindell was sizing up a strutter jake when Brett said there were two long beards coming. The longbeards ran to the decoy and the jakes and one longbeard flogged the other longbeard. They separated and Kindell told Brett (who was videoing) that he was on the gobbler on the right. Kindell aimed at the gobblers head and pulled the trigger on his shotgun. The bird dropped immediately. The other birds ran a short distance and stopped.

 Brett Berry
Brett is from Bristolville, Ohio and flew out of the Cleveland airport to Tampa, Florida. He arrived a David Mills home late at night. He worked a gobbler briefly on the roost, when it flew down it went off with a hen.

For the afternoon hunt David Mills took them to a good area. They set up and waited 15 minutes for the area to settle down. Kindell yelped and Brett followed up on the Woodhaven Real Hen box call. A hen instantly responded and worked into the call ... with 5 jakes in tow. The birds circled and began leaving.

Brett and Kindell decided to put on a turkey fight with fighting purrs and clucks. That turned the birds around instantly and they came right in and went to the decoy. Two longbeards came in from the opposite side.

Kindall shot the one on the right and the birds didn't leave. So Brett handed Kindell the video camera and took the shotgun. The remaining longbeard had joined the 5 jakes and they were all leaving back into the swamp. Brett saw a shot and took it.

The gobbler went down right away. The two Woodhaven Sting Team duo had just taken a double.

Kindell Keeton and Brett Berry with their longbeard double on the first day of the hunt.

David MIlls (Middle) congratulates Brett Berry (L) and Kindell Keeton (R) on their first Osceola longbeard gobblers.
 

In Florida we are hunting with David Mills of Zolfo Springs, Florida in Central Florida's Osceola wild turkey country. David is an immediately likable guy and makes you feel at home from the get go.  David has thousands of acres available to hunt Florida Osceolas. He understands this unique species of wild turkey and knows his extensive area like the preverbal back of his hand. David is now part of the Woodhaven Sting Team and is hosting them on this hunt. To contact David about Osceola hunts, bow or shotgun, phone 1-863-990-9087.

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