ok guys ive put more time and effort into scouting..roosting and watching birds this year then i ever have.. and after 3 days of absolute frustrating just out of bow range turkeys i finally got 1....sat my blind up last night near the roost so i could watch them fly up so i could set up in the morning..sat watched 14 long beards and 9 hens walk 10 steps past me last night into the roost..so i left my blind where it was.. came in the morning... at 5 and set up a carrylite pretty boy n girl... about 10 yards to my right...right at sun up i did a little pillow talk for them and they ate it up..hear them all fly down 1 after another...next thing i know the woods goes quite like they had just been abducted by aliens or something..no scratching gobbling.. nothing...all of the sudden i see a red head at 30 yards..im in a ground blind so i just watched him for a bit....he came to 20 yards and did a kind of half strut.. i drew put my pin on the base of the neck and let him have it..bird just crumpled and my easton ACC tipped with a slick trick magnum flew threw his head and embedded in a tree about 15 yards behind where he was standed.. he was by no means the biggest bird i watched fly up but hes a dandy.. took hom to the taxidermist about an hour about.. turned out i completely severed the spinal cord and only skin was holding the head on....first ever turkey with a bow only 2nd turkey ever killed
i will post pics if i can figure out how
not a bad bird.. 9 inch beard and 1 inch spurs about 18-19 lbs just a guess on weight though

Congratulations!! It is hard enough to get one in range with a gun but to do it with a bow is awesome..

Nice !!! One of these years i am going to put the shotgun aside and try the bow for one.

Very nice bird! Congrats.

nice bird
and with a bow
i am going to try and get one with a bow this fall

You can't get a better shot than that!!! Congrats!!! Good looking beard on him too!

Admittedly I'm jealous that you're seeing all these turkeys! LOL I think all the Indiana turkeys got abducted by aliens!!! haha

Kim

Great job,great shot! That's my only regret this year not having my Bow with me when I shot my bird, he was never more than 14 yards away. Unlike you I was not in a blind but was behind him most of the time he was in view. Good Hunting!