
Shortridge Harvests Trophy Gobblers
Retired School Teacher Kills gobblers Kathy Shortridge is not your typical turkey hunter but she is a crack shot, avid hunter and gobbler slayer. She hasn’t hunted turkeys all of her life but after she married Bro. Allen Shortridge she was introduced to the sport of both deer and turkey hunting and she’s never been the same. The sixty-seven-year-old retired teacher married Shortridge about 10 years ago and started turkey hunting soon afterwards. Though she’s an avid deer hun

Huckleberry Bill
Age: Ancient- 7 years! 20 pounds; 1 3/8 spurs, 11-inch beard. Huckleberry Bill was a hill gobbler that lived in the Bogue Phalia Hills west of Meridian, MS. Huckleberry beat all comers for a few years. During my final season to hunt him we had several close calls as many people did. Huckleberry would stay near an old hilltop green field and spend his days courting hens and gobbling from his sanctuary. It was nigh on impossible for anybody to sneak up on him due to the proximi