Congrats to you ryncam and to you to turkeygirl2! I'll get the scores into deerdust so he can get them posted for our team.
I just got back from my MN. hunt and I took a good longbeard this morning.I got set up on him and 3 other gobblers. I got into within about 80 yards or so. I made a couple of soft tree calls and the birds gobbled constantly until fly down. I heard 2 fly down and march up the hill towards me. I was set up on a field edge. The one tom came out of the woods about 20 feet from me! He let out a gobble right there and that was very loud! I let him get 20 yards out into the field and then leveled him.
The day before I had 2 toms at about 60 yards a gobbling and strutting but they would not come in any further .After about 10 minutes of this a real hen came over and towed the toms off. About 30 minutes later,a hen and tom showed up and I got the tom within 45 yards, but I could never get that darn bird to break strut! I cut,yelped putted and even yelled at him but all he would do was gobble and continue to strut! I learned the hard way a few years back to NOT take a shot at a strutting turkey at that distance, so I let him walk.Maybe thats the bird I got today.You never know.
Anyway, the bird I got weighed 19lbs 2oz.,has 7/8 and 1 in. spurs and a 10.25 in. beard for a score of 58.375.
My turkey hunting year is now over with,time to think fishing,so good luck to all my team members still on the hunt! Keep them scores coming in!