My 3 day season in AR

[ouachitamtnman]

Had a good start to Easter.  Was on a bird opening day that I was unable to close the deal on so I was back there Easter morning with a decoy since the woods were so open where they were.  That bird and a couple others were gobbling on the roost but the bird closest to me only gobbled twice while ones further away were tearing the world up but I could hear people owling at them so I decided to stay put and at 6:45, BOOM! prob 200 yds away someone shot.  A few min later I let out a yelp and a bird gobbled  about 300yds out.  I called again and again he answered so I closed the distance about 80 yds to an old road they like to strut in and set the decoy up.  I called and he gobbled and sounded closer but I didn't like my setup so I quickly moved.  About that time BOOM! 200 yds in the another direction.  Scared that the bird spooked, I called again and he gobbled and this time he was within 80 yds and I could hear him drumming.  He drummed, gobbled and strutted for 15 min or so and finally I could see him coming down the grown up road.  Within minutes he was in range with his head up so I took my opportunity and made it count.  It was a few min after 7.  Great morning.










The next day, I was off and was back at it with a good freind of mine.  We hit a couple of spots with not much doing.  At our 3rd spot, we made our way in and called and didn't hear anything but I knew it held birds so we walked a bit further when my buddy said he heard a gobble but couldn't course it.  I took that to mean it was far off so I start high tailing up the ridge when i got about 80 yds I thought we might try to locate him and when I stopped, I heard the dreaded PUTT. To my joy, he started gobbling at the hen we had just spooked's putts so I knew he hadnt seen us.  My buddy Edd and I sat down in the middle of the fire trail and he made a few calls and the bird answered and within minutes he was at 12 yds and I let him have it.  Season over, just like that.  Now I'm going to work to get my little girl a turkey.

10 1/4" beard
7/8 & 15/16 spurs
19lbs

[DirtNap647]

congrats

[TJK68]

Great job, Congrats!

[boomer]

Congrats!!

[jblackburn]

good work!  Congrats!

[JALA Strut]

Real nice birds...Congrats!

[Gold Spur]

Congrats, awesome birds!

[bigdoc]

WTG Congrats!!!

[Gawhitaker]

Congrats on a couple of fine birds

[letinmfly]

Congrats!!

[beagler]

Outstanding!

[slamman]

congrats on a couple of nice birds

[stone road turkey calls]

congrats

[surehuntsalot]

congrats on 2 nice birds

[Gooserbat]

Those are 2 fine specimens.