On her Maiden voyage my Hoyt nitrum performed flawlessly 21 lbs 9.5 inch beard 1 inch spurs Day started off with a large series of gobbles, birds were firing off from an oak ridge bordering the field we were hunting, there was a patch of property between the field and oak ridge we did not have permission to be on. I observed several birds and quite a few long-beards in this hedgerow, I was able to witness a real life turkey flogging - this big tom was whooping everything for about 15 mins. Seen a big tom and two jakes exiting the field out of range. Few minutes later two big toms were working their way up the hedgerow but promptly came back along the field edge. They were ignoring my calls(pleas) and disappeared back in the hedgerow. Around 8am I could make out some faint movement in the hedgerow and put the binos up and see it was a strutter. I switched my calling from yelps to purrs and clucks and caught movement it was the strutter coming through the hedgerow along with another long-beard and two jakes. they were 70 yards out but focused on my decoys. As soon as he saw my jake decoy he blew right back up and started angling towards my set-up I purred on the slate until he was about 40 yards and switched to picking up my bow. i let him and the other big tom get to 18 yards and drew but they were in line with each other, the strutter blew up and angled closer. I shot him through the wingbutt and broke his offside leg. recovered in 80 yards taken with a Hoyt Nitrum 34 and a Wasp Jak-hammer broadhead
Awesome bird man I can't wait for April 29th here in WIS to hopefully put a bird down with my spyder 30.
