Neil Brooks and brother-in-law Terry Dameron teamed up for another gobbler on a wet day in early May.
The bird crossed a river to come to their set-up, which they had sweetened with a Primo B-Mobile decoy.
The bird weighed a bit over 17 pounds, had 1-inch spurs and a 10.75-inch beard. Brooks said it came in with a second 2-year-old but things happened so fast they weren't able to pull off the double.
While growing up in rural Southern Oregon, Mark Taylor developed a passion for the outdoors while he and his younger brother tagged along with their father on fishing, hunting and camping adventures.
Graduating from Northwestern University in 1988, Taylor spent four years as an officer in the U.S. Navy based in Norfolk before moving into journalism.
After five years writing about the military for a Norfolk-based publishing company, he became the outdoors editor at The Roanoke Times in 1998. He lives in Roanoke with his wife and twin daughters.
