Longbeard Season

[Legacy]

Couldnt close the deal on opening morning although i heard plenty of gobbling and saw plenty of birds including 1 real nice tom (that strutted for over 3 hours, 100 yards away). This morning the whole flock was in the woods roosted and at daylight 6 hens (including 1 bearded hen), 3 jakes, and 2 mature toms flew off the roost and into my field less than 80 yards away. After a couple hours of watching birds, one of the jakes came over to strut for my 2 hen decoys. Well that got the attention of one of the big toms, and in the process of scaring off the jake, he ended up well within gun range. 1" spurs and 9 1/2" beard. Great day and certainly one of the craziest mornings i have ever spent in the turkey woods, that ended in success.

[fireplug]

Very nice! Love it when they stay outside range and taunt you. Kinda like those deer that walk just fast enough across your shooting lanes to get to more thick brush that you cannot relase the arrow!

[FX]

Nice bird Rob Congrats!

Shawn

[Traveling Circus]

Way to go Rob.....I've gotta learn to incorporate deeks into my hunting..... I've never used them, but there are times that I think they'd help me out......

[seasquirrel]

Nice job