For the second consecutive year, I had the pleasure of attending the Turkey Creek Longbeards banquet, held recently at the Joplin Elks Lodge.
One of the highlights was hearing a turkey story by Terry McGinnis, who was born in Joplin and raised in Webb City. He currently lives near Diamond.
Terry approached and said that I looked familiar. In no time, he and I bonded. We are graduates of Webb City High School and, of course, avid turkey hunters.
He noted that he and his wife, Honie, had “a heck of a hunt” for longbeards last spring in Southwest Missouri.
On the opening morning of spring turkey season, the couple was well-concealed, sitting in a blind in a brushy fence roll.
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