I was fortunate enough to be invited down to Apopka Florida for a Osceola turkey hunt and couldn't pass it up. Yes, what a morning. My friend set out a blind and 3 decoys. As I was trying to show him how to use the video camera, the birds came in not leaving enough time to video. This gobler closed the distance from about 75+ yards and walked straight to us. At about 8 yards, he turned around revealing his back and I sent a BigJim through his back. I thought that I had spined him because he hit the dirt and went to flopping around. In a couple of seconds, he jumped up and ran out to about 30 yards. I nocked another arrow and prepared for a follow up shot. I could see my arrow protruding about a foot out of his chest. Before I could shoot again, he ran another 30 yards and went to flopping again. He then ran behind a brush pile and died out of site. All in all, it took about 1 minute, but probably much less time than that.
While waiting, trying to give my turkey time to die, my friend called up two jakes. I could have taken one of them also if I was so inclined, but I was not interested in the young bird even if it was legal to take two in a day. All in all a great time but over rather quick.
He is a nice bird. Not the biggest -- 9" beard, but had three beards total (two little bitty beards and one good one). Also had a 1" sur. I new that the Big Jim head would do a number on him, but was totally amazed by the devastation.
I used my 80lb Thunder Child and a 780g arrow tipped with a 300g bigjim head. I know it is a little light for turkeys, but after all the threads of light weight bows doing the job, I thought I would give it a chance
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Topic: Big Jims TC Meets Osceola 2011 (Read 878 times)
