Having tagged a bird the first week of the season meant I could'nt hunt the first weekend. This left me some scouting time and alot of anticipation for a weeks vacation and some turkey chasing.

Mondays hunt actually started for me Sunday evening as I watched 6 mature gobblers strutting around my hunting area just before sundown. I was pretty excited about this hunt, as I knew I would be surrounded by gobbling turkeys.... wrong. Not one single morning gobble, or all day for that matter. I did manage to call in several hens and some deer, one of them a buck with about 3" of new antlers.
Well about 10am I decided to leave and go to a different spot. I got back to my truck and noticed I left my bow quiver where I was sitting. I took it at as a message to stay where I was.So I slammed a drink of water and unloaded my jacket and headed back to my spot.
About noon I saw two big toms down the hill about 150 yards away heading my direction. Neither of them ever gobbled or went into full strut, one would half strut but his heart was'nt into it. I figured I would put the calls down and see how close they came. I was kind of on the clock because we have to stop hunting at 1pm here and those old toms were'nt about to hurry for me.Well at 12:40 they were 25 yards away and just layed down in the grass (I guess they were pretending to be deer).After about 10 minutes of that I'd had enough and started looking for an open shot through the hedge trees.After crawling 10 yards closer one of them got up and offered me a 15 yard broadside shot, I slammed him in the butt of his left wing with my arrow and he went straight down.I looked at my watch while I was standing on 'em 12:54, just in time.
Here's the specs 26 lbs,10" beard and 1 7/16 spurs.

Really nice bird. Looks like a MO tag?

Thats one heck of a nice bird ya got there,congrats

Another excellent bird Bodeen ,Your absolutely in the right place here fitting in like you've been here for year's .I see you have a great bow laying beside you BOWTECH. Congrat's buddy.

nubo

Beautiful bird! You definitely have some skills. Congratulations.

Great bird! thanks for the story and pics. Man, if you didn't know those were turkey feet, those spurs look like they coulda been from a dinosaur or something.

congrats! Thats a really nice bird and good story.

It must have been picture perfect !
I can't wait till 5/5 around 5 am my season will start here in Wisconsin. We only get 5 days Wednesday-Sunday, in one of six seasons from April 15th- May 15th. You can get lucky & draw two tags in under applied for zones & time periods. We have tons of BIG TOMS all over the state, my area Waupaca/Shawano County issued 19,000 kill tags this season...

I have been archery only for 20 plus years & will not harvest game any other way ! It took me many years to find the right set up's now I need someone to invent a "motion sensor" with wake up alarm...
A double bull T-5, a chair in a bag & my coffee pot, & a few decoys...