Opening day of our fall turkey

[scott39]

We had three longbeards roost pretty close the night before. the next morning we heard one cluck from the group. We waited for them to show,no dice. We headed for our other spot up the road and there they were in a pasture,with about 30 to 35 hens and poults. After about a half hour of callin the dominant hens got a little irate and brought the whole flock in! Including the 3 longbeards ,bringin up the rear. The two old hens came around a strip of thick junk. When they came around they pegged us in the open hardwoods. I figured shoot somethin or leave with nothin. After my buddy shot ,i eased up the tree to look over the brush. I took what was a good shot and missed the toms. We ended up callin in another flock from behind us and popped two more. We got a rarety with the first bird a hen with spurs. Pretty cool hunt!


The spurs on the hen.

Some birds that were above us in a another field.


Lots of callin,I gobbled the toms gobbled. Kee-kee's and assembly yelps is what brought em all in.

[Bowhunters]

Congratulations and thanks for sharing.

Looks like ya'll are going to have plenty of turkey to eat this fall.

[ironhead]

Nothing better than fried wild turkey,,,mmmm mmm. I have a pretty tasty recipe if your interested.

Cut the breast in stips
soak overnight in Louisiana hot sauce
dip in egg
Roll in a mixture of
flour
season salt
garlic
pepper
onion soup mix

fry untill golden brown.