A season I wont forget!
 

Heres why. Since I am fortunate to work out of my home, my job in the mornings is to get my 7 yr old daughter to the bus stop at 8:15 am, our driveway is about 1/4 mile. This has a serious impact on my hunting schedule, especially morning hunts. Since I missed opening Gobbler day, my wife said she would go in late and let me hunt that Monday morning since every evening for a week before season I had been roosting several Toms. I hunted by myself and got in before sun up and put the B-mobile and a couple hens and jakes in a corner of my field ( I had roosted a bird the night before). I was in my blind and tried my best to call him in after he had been gobbling from the tree and after he hit the ground. No luck, he got henned up 2 minutes after he came down and I didnt here a peep out of him for an hour. I decided to pull up the decoys and go down to the edge of my clover field about 300 yrds from where I had set up previously. Three yelps and from exactly where I was before, this Tom started going nuts gobbling. At first I was very frustrated, but as I checked out of the back corner of my blind I saw him coming full stride to my calls. It was funny as hell when he got about 80 yrds away and he saw the flock of decoys, and B-mobile. He strutted, drummed, and was pissed when he saw the B-mobile Tom decoy and went straight for him from until he got a couple yards from him. He got all bowed up and pounced on the decoy...trying not to laugh out loud I put the red dot on my Mossberg and literally scalped him. I couldnt believe what a perfect shot on him until I got out of the blind and retrieved him. Graphic pictures below!

The gun I turkey hunt with is a Mossberg 500 that has been modified with special ops pistol grip and adjustable stock. The barrel I chose was an 18 1/2" XXXX choked Mossberg turkey barrel, along with a 2x30 red dot scope, everything in Realtree APG. Sorry about the picture being out of focus but it was from my phone.



He was definately the dominant bird on my lease of 200 acres, his beard was over 11 inches, spurs over 1 1/2", and definately over 25#'s.






If that wasnt enough, since I only had 1 tag left, I went to the exact spot where I harvested that bird, the next night and roosted another vocal Tom. I went back on Wednesday as soon as the bus picked up my daughter and clucked a few times, yelped, purred, cut...and within 5 minutes I was back in my truck going home with another bruiser. He actually dropped in the feather pile from the bird from 2 days before!



The coolest part of it all was, even though I was tagged out, I called a buddy of mine that had been hunting his arse off w/o a bird yet and told him to meet me the next saturday morning because I had roosted yet another Tom several hundred yards from where I had busted 2 birds already. I put him in the blind at 5:30 and went ahead about 150 yrds and got the Tom talking back at me, so I backed up about 75 yards and called at him again, this guy was coming FAST so I ran and got behind the blind and told my buddy to look for the bird. I clucked from behind the blind and he was instantly fighting with the Bmobile until Charlie shot...followed with "bird down". We were literally in the truck before the sun had come up over the trees. That had to be the biggest thrill I had this season, and am looking forward to next year dropping one with the bow!

Very nice bird Hoyt ViperTec! Looks like your Ole 500 clobbered him real nice. From the looks of it, he was done before his but hit the ground. Congrats. :party0007:

I love my old 500, not nearly as cool as your set up, but the many deer, pheasant and most recently my first Gobbler sure didn't seem to know the difference.