OneCam
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It wasn't until 4:30 am this past Saturday that I found out while buying licenses on our way to hunt that Chance couldn’t get a tag until 4th Season because we already purchased a youth tag. So I broke the news to Chance that he would be calling for me and I purchased a 2nd season tag. Saturday morning did not produce – we heard lots of birds but we were not setup where they wanted to be. We didn’t stay long as and had to get back home to prepare for a soccer game.
Without a hunting buddy on Sunday, the boy’s spent the night at Grandmas, I decided to grab the bow and head out on my own to try to fill a tag, while being a good partner in the PMA turkey contest. I was set up in the Lick Creek blind down in a bottom with a Pretty Boy just a few yards away. I sipped a cup of coffee and was reminiscing the last time I was in the blind – a late season hunt that netted a me good buck. Shortly after 6am I noticed just 80 yards away was a tom strutting on a limb - then he sounded off and a few other turkeys were in a tree not far from him. Soon they all pitched down within 100 yards - 2 toms and 2 hens. The hens worked the hillside to my right and the Toms kept their distance while strutting in a small drainage in the freshly burnt switch grass field. Over the course of the next 20 minutes 4 more hens turned up and they started all heading my direction. The toms in attempt to cut them off from my Pretty boy side hilled them from above and made their move right in front of the blind. As they started approaching something slightly spooked the Toms and they did not commit to the decoy and started to work away. I found myself at full draw as they we walking away just over 30 yards - the jak-hammer broke the larger birds wing and he quickly expired after doing a few barrel roles. To top it off his buddy spurred him a few times for good measure then walked off gobbling taking his new harem with him. It was all over by 6:40am.
My bird had 1 1/8 spurs, 11inch beard and weighed 21.5 lbs.
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Without a hunting buddy on Sunday, the boy’s spent the night at Grandmas, I decided to grab the bow and head out on my own to try to fill a tag, while being a good partner in the PMA turkey contest. I was set up in the Lick Creek blind down in a bottom with a Pretty Boy just a few yards away. I sipped a cup of coffee and was reminiscing the last time I was in the blind – a late season hunt that netted a me good buck. Shortly after 6am I noticed just 80 yards away was a tom strutting on a limb - then he sounded off and a few other turkeys were in a tree not far from him. Soon they all pitched down within 100 yards - 2 toms and 2 hens. The hens worked the hillside to my right and the Toms kept their distance while strutting in a small drainage in the freshly burnt switch grass field. Over the course of the next 20 minutes 4 more hens turned up and they started all heading my direction. The toms in attempt to cut them off from my Pretty boy side hilled them from above and made their move right in front of the blind. As they started approaching something slightly spooked the Toms and they did not commit to the decoy and started to work away. I found myself at full draw as they we walking away just over 30 yards - the jak-hammer broke the larger birds wing and he quickly expired after doing a few barrel roles. To top it off his buddy spurred him a few times for good measure then walked off gobbling taking his new harem with him. It was all over by 6:40am.
My bird had 1 1/8 spurs, 11inch beard and weighed 21.5 lbs.
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During deer season the youth tag is in addition to any other legal tag, why not the same during turkey??
