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KS archery season started April 1st but the first few days were tied up with a couple youth hunters. So Tues after work I headed out to see if I could catch up with a couple turkeys.
This turned out to be a quick hunt with both my tags getting punched the same night. The first turkey everything went as planned with calling him into about 15 yards. Made a good shot and he died about 10 yards later. He ended up with around 7/8 spurs and a 9 inch beard.
The second turkey was more of a rodeo. I had decided I wanted to film the next turkey gettting shot. Well when everything started to go down I had 5 jakes and 2 toms at 20 yards, I was trying to film and wait for one of the toms to get out of the group to give me a clean shot. After about 3 mins and letting down the bow about 5 times one of the toms moved to the side and came under the fence. I had the camera moved to get the action but as I was worried about the camera I forgot to really aim and shot low. He then started moving off to the south so I quickly loaded another arrow and tried to move the camera and of course missed again.
I thought I had blown the double for the night. I tried to get something to come back but they all just slowly work their way to the south. About 10 minutes later I noticed a hen coming down the fence line and figured there had to be a tom with this group. Sure enough at the end of the group was a tom all fanned out and working his way about 20 yards from the blind. This time I left the camera off and was focused on making the shot and it was my last arrow. He finally came into the shooting window and I was able to make a good shot and he died about 5 yards later. The second turkey had a touch longer than 1 1/8 spurs and a 9 inch beard.
This turned out to be a quick hunt with both my tags getting punched the same night. The first turkey everything went as planned with calling him into about 15 yards. Made a good shot and he died about 10 yards later. He ended up with around 7/8 spurs and a 9 inch beard.
The second turkey was more of a rodeo. I had decided I wanted to film the next turkey gettting shot. Well when everything started to go down I had 5 jakes and 2 toms at 20 yards, I was trying to film and wait for one of the toms to get out of the group to give me a clean shot. After about 3 mins and letting down the bow about 5 times one of the toms moved to the side and came under the fence. I had the camera moved to get the action but as I was worried about the camera I forgot to really aim and shot low. He then started moving off to the south so I quickly loaded another arrow and tried to move the camera and of course missed again.
I thought I had blown the double for the night. I tried to get something to come back but they all just slowly work their way to the south. About 10 minutes later I noticed a hen coming down the fence line and figured there had to be a tom with this group. Sure enough at the end of the group was a tom all fanned out and working his way about 20 yards from the blind. This time I left the camera off and was focused on making the shot and it was my last arrow. He finally came into the shooting window and I was able to make a good shot and he died about 5 yards later. The second turkey had a touch longer than 1 1/8 spurs and a 9 inch beard.
