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Author Topic: Heading to Kansas for turkeys  (Read 4640 times)

Offline trubltrubl

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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2018, 05:31:57 AM »
Congrats ...nice job , thnx for story

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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2018, 07:49:21 AM »
Congrats, that is awesome. Great story
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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2018, 02:03:12 PM »
Congrats on the Tom, Tom!  Definitely crummy weather here all weekend sleet rain and hail here! About 12 inches worth this weekend
Relax,

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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2018, 04:16:48 PM »
Congrats on a great bird, Tom! :thumbsup:
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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2018, 09:48:27 PM »
Friday the 13th dawned in southern Kansas with a chorus of distant gobbles muffled by a constant roar of the prairie wind. I set out a lone hen decoy (tethered to reduce lateral movement) and then disappeared into my popup blind. Despite my hen-yelp pleading for a gobbler to come to my position nothing happened at all until about 10 a.m. when a quartet of jakes approached the decoy. After a botched shot at one of the birds with my Bullhead, they merely moved away about 20 yards where they looked around and eventually lay down. I soft-yelped at them for about a half hour, and they again approached the decoy. This time my bow was armed with a Woodman broadhead. I picked out one of the bigger jakes, drew the arrow and sent it through the bird's heart. It ran off about 15 yards and tumbled down. The other jakes ran to it, fanned out and strutted there for several minutes.
Thus ended my Kansas archery spring turkey hunt.
I used my backup bow, an ILF setup for this chapter of my adventure.


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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2018, 09:58:29 PM »
Congratulations on a great hunt. Good Shooting!

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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #26 on: April 13, 2018, 09:59:33 PM »
Now that's doing it double right. Congrats on a good hunt.  Thanks for taking us along.   

Looks like the weather is going to be pretty bad the next 48 hours.  You might need to camp out there for a while.

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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #27 on: April 13, 2018, 10:50:01 PM »
Congratulations Tom. Looks like Thanksgiving came early this year.

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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #28 on: April 14, 2018, 02:51:40 PM »
Congrats Tom! What a great way to start your spring!!!
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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #29 on: April 14, 2018, 03:18:36 PM »
Congrats on two great birds.

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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #30 on: April 14, 2018, 04:03:08 PM »
Way to go,a double
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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #31 on: April 14, 2018, 07:32:23 PM »
Tom.  Weather black here is terrible.  Did you hole up there for a few days or are you making your way back?

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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #32 on: April 14, 2018, 09:08:10 PM »
Jerry, I'm holed up here in Kansas until tomorrow morning. I'll check the weather maps then and decide what to do from there. Just take my time, I guess.

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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #33 on: April 14, 2018, 09:09:02 PM »
Congratulations Tom.  Wait a couple of days to come back.  Northern Michigan got 8” of snow last night and probably another 2-4 coming tomorrow.
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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #34 on: April 14, 2018, 10:07:26 PM »
Well done sir! Tagged out with stickbows. Impressive!
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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #35 on: April 15, 2018, 08:11:17 AM »
2 Birds down!! Way to go,quite an acoomplishment. Ive only done that once in my Turkey hunting career, where Ive harvested 2 birds back to back with a bow. Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #36 on: April 15, 2018, 08:59:51 AM »
Congrats on # 2  tom. 

Good idea to wait to come home.  Up by you, we received 12 inches yesterday.  another 8 last night and there is no sign of it slowing down.  My turkey season starts next week, probably the first time I will have hunted turkeys in a couple feet of snow.  Unfortunately, they are all holed up in town at peoples bird feeders right now.
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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #37 on: April 15, 2018, 08:23:38 PM »
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Re: Heading to Kansas for turkeys
« Reply #38 on: April 16, 2018, 03:16:34 PM »
Sounds like you had a fantastic hunt, Congrats!!!!!

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