All I want is a Turkey! Double video setup...}
The last couple years I have decided a wanted a turkey with my bow. I had never had a chance to take a shot at a legal turkey before so I now had them on my hit list. Ryan took me "turkey" hunting last yr only for me to kill 2 does and a cull buck per his request! This last weekend found me back at Ryans for a second time this season, to finally get a shot at my turkey I had been wanting.
We were sitting in the house blind that Ryan put up this year and had two video cameras and two bows and a lot of bull! We were just talking about how all we ever see on the property is hens when all of the sudden three bearded birds made their appearance. I assume they are young males, please excuse my ignorance, but the heads did not look like gobblers to me and the lack of strut or puff make them look like just another hen. I doubt three bearded hens would just come in so agan I assume they are young gobblers. They had a slight red tent but not all the other stuff I was thinking was on the head of a gobbler. Feel free to educate me on turkeys....I did see a beard and fired a shot.
After about killing myself falling half way down the ladder, I never found the bird that Ryan laughed saying was already dead!
Later that evening I shot at a bearded hen in a large group and knew that show was low and back a little. Watching that bird fly away a mile and never finding it either caused me to have a terrible weekend. I looked for the first bird for literally hours and the second for a good while. The first bird made away with my arrow and laser nock. I walked through the pitch dark and it never showed up as well all around the aread. Tough birds and not perfect hits killed me. Them jokers wont hold still!
Here is the video.
I am still disgusted over these birds and feel like I lost a PY buck. I want to get a gobbler mounted in a stretched out flying position like my buddy does here locally.
We were sitting in the house blind that Ryan put up this year and had two video cameras and two bows and a lot of bull! We were just talking about how all we ever see on the property is hens when all of the sudden three bearded birds made their appearance. I assume they are young males, please excuse my ignorance, but the heads did not look like gobblers to me and the lack of strut or puff make them look like just another hen. I doubt three bearded hens would just come in so agan I assume they are young gobblers. They had a slight red tent but not all the other stuff I was thinking was on the head of a gobbler. Feel free to educate me on turkeys....I did see a beard and fired a shot.
After about killing myself falling half way down the ladder, I never found the bird that Ryan laughed saying was already dead!
Later that evening I shot at a bearded hen in a large group and knew that show was low and back a little. Watching that bird fly away a mile and never finding it either caused me to have a terrible weekend. I looked for the first bird for literally hours and the second for a good while. The first bird made away with my arrow and laser nock. I walked through the pitch dark and it never showed up as well all around the aread. Tough birds and not perfect hits killed me. Them jokers wont hold still!
Here is the video.
I am still disgusted over these birds and feel like I lost a PY buck. I want to get a gobbler mounted in a stretched out flying position like my buddy does here locally.
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