Well...it all came together on a beatfiul, cool, crisp morning. My first turkey with a bow and I was just as excited when I took my first whitetail.
I usually hunt these birds for 2 weeks and handicap myself by not using a blind or decoy. I really like the challenge....while others call it foolishness.
I decided this morning to change my luck. I mounted my Snuffers on my Barrel tapered ash arrows, was using Cedar. Slapped them in my backquiver, covered the bright feathers with a Kelly Fletch Cover. Strung up my Kempf Steatlth Hunter and was in the woods at 6:30 am. I had picked a spot in a valley that had 2 logs that fell and split around a larger tree. Some cover in the front and back.
I decided to spend the morning here and not move. I knew Turkeys were in the area cause every morning at 5:30 am when I leave for work I can hear the gobbles. At 7:15 a tom gobbled to my cackle, still way off. Then another tom gobbled and another! Off in the distance I could see 2 hens moving away....some purrs and another cackle brought loud gobbles and they were coming closer. What saved me here, I had 6 to 8 trees in front that I was hoping the birds would walk around giving me time to draw without being seen.
Ever so slowly the toms made their way in...50...40...30 yds...Strutting...Looking....Then it happened...
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