Small turkey, crappy hunter. Weak effort all-around, IMO. j/k Congrats bro. Nice glamour shots, too. What is the story on that freakshow SHED??! I got a semi-erection when I saw that picture. Holy Bejeezus.
I headed out to Kansas for the first week of April. It took me a few days to find good spots to hunt. The longer I stayed, the more the birds seemed to break into smaller groups. The last day and a half I called in three birds within 20 yards...took a shot at one and missed. This was 15 minutes after nailing a coyote in the same spot! I couldn't get shots on the other birds. This was my first turkey trip dedicated to hunting with bow....learned a lot and had a great time.
I actually tripped over it when we were looking for my buddys gobbler. I was behind the camera and almost lost it! It ended up scoring.....12"! He didn't have much of a main beam but made up for it in the mass measurements! The other shed was found by another hunter in camp, and he was actually allowed to keep it. He found it looking for his bird as well. Roughly 6" of mass at the base. HOSS of a shed. Main beam was 25" but I can't for the life of me remember the total score. As you can see his tines aren't the longest..only thing that "hurt him" if you can even say that. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I guess there isn't much of a story behind my bird. We got to the spot about an hour and a half before first light. We never had been there before and we had camera gear, decoys and a blind to get up. We really didn't know where to set up. We walked accross a winter wheat field knowing that they must strut there during the day at some point so really we were just going to wait it out and see if we could get on a hot bird during the afternoon. When we got to the far woodline/fenceline I just for the hell of it i cupped my hands and let out an owl hoot. I wasn't expecting much since there was about 50mph winds blowing from the woodline out to the wheat field...opposite any possible roost. Before I finished the first hoot, the woodline literally lit up for about 50 yards both directions from we were standing. Uh oh. I NEVER like setting up that close to the roost, because lets face it when you're dealing with 2 guys, 2 bows, camera gear, decoys, and a blind it's hard to be quiet. We had really no other choice, so we set up as quickly and as quietly as we could...and let it calm for a bit. As the sun began to crest hills to the east, I let out a few tree yelps and got them going again. About 50 turkeys pitched down in each possible direction. And luckily a flock of about 15 decided to come our way. I had about a 12 yard shot on 4 toms and picked what I thought was the biggest. It was a short but great hunt. Though we were dealing with high winds (gusts in the mid 50's...we very rarely get that in MN), and henned up FLOCKS of birds...I really couldn't have asked for a better trip. We got a lot of good footage, and the best part...my dad got to take his first turkey with a bow...He shot a bearded hen...and I can still give him crap he's never taken a male turkey with a bow:D
