NH turkey down!

[Seth Stevens]

Last evening, I was able to watch several turkeys fly to roost. The problem with where they roosted was, it was very close to a road, on the edge of a pond and very close to my access woods Rd.

I decided that I would leave even earlier than usual and try to slip past them I the dark.

I slipped down the logging road at 3:30am. I was able to ghost my way past the birds and get my blind set up without disturbing anything
 
At 5:15 a bird started gobbling, to my right, from the roost. After 15 minutes he flew down away from me. I gave a few soft calls. He went crazy! He came storming into about 40 yards but would not cross a small creek (about 3' wide!). He strutted and gobbled his brains out but would not cross.
 

[Seth Stevens]

After about 45 minutes, that bird decided it had had enough and moved off. He would gobble occasionaly as he left.

10 minutes later, I gave a series of soft calls. Moments later, I could hear something coming from my left.

5 birds had slipped in silently. The biggest, broke into strut and bumped my jake decoy. As he turned, almost facing me, I picked a feather, just to the left of his beard, drew, anchored and released.

The Snuffer 160 tipped arrow hit exactly where I was looking! The bird flipped in the air then hobbled 15 yards and went down for good.
 
 

[shreffler]

Great bird, and one heck of a shot! Congrats!!

[Seth Stevens]

You can see the blind and decoys in the background.
 
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Shot with my Centaur Triple Carbon Elite TD. CX Heritage 350's and Snuffer 160's.
It was a great morning in the woods!

[Kopper1013]

That's great! Congrats!!!

[Whitetail Addict]

Awesome! Good shot, and congrats on a nice bird!       It doesn't get much better than that, does it?

Isn't it aggravating when they come to a little creek like that, that they could almost step across, or a barbed wire fence they could just duck under, and hang up on ya?

Bob

[Ray Lyon]

       

Congrats on your bird!

Bisch

[Jayrod]

Nice bird...CONGRATS!

[LITTLEBIGMAN]

way to come up with a plan and execute it ! great job . congrats

[Huntrdfk]

When I got the text at 6:43 this morning I knew without looking what it was. Great job, and great shot Seth!

David

[tracker1]

Good job congrats

[hitman]

Nice bird and story. Great shooting.

[KYArcher]

Congrats on a Fine Bird! Nice shooting and great pix.  

[Bernie B.]

Very nice!  Congratulations on following your plan to perfection!  Nice bird!      

Bernie

[DennyK]

Great Bird!   Denny

[doubleo]

Nice shot on a super Jake! That bow is sweet also! Congrats!  

[ron w]

 Nice looking Centaur also!!!

[VTer]

Way to get it done......outsmarting them!

[varmint101]

Nice job!  I think you'll need to get another Centaur with a turkey feather or foot on the handle now.