Finally got one!

[stick]

Today turned out great. I hunted a place that a customer of mine ownes. I get to the place at 5:50am and when I slam the door I hear about 10 different gobblers sound off. I nervously get situated about a hundred yards away from the truck, and start tree calls. Every time that I called I instantly had a answer, at 6:35 it sounded like every bird around flew down at the same time. Three of them flew over me and landed about 75yds away. By now I am so fired up that I,m just calling one series right after another. I am watching the three birds that landed in front of me, wich are all jakes. Then to my right I hear a tom sound off real close, I turn to look, and a big tom is running right to my decoys. He then veers toward the jakes and sends them running, he stops and starts strutting, and is about 50yds away. I just quit calling because he is locked on to my decoys and slowly coming closer. When he gets to 40yds I unload on him, and he flys off. I'm disgusted because I felt myself jerk the trigger. Clean Miss. As I sit there banging my head against the tree, I hear him gobble again about 100yds away. I then grab a different call and start calling again. He does the exact same thing again and this time I didn't flinch. Within two steps of the same place as before and now we have a very dumb turkey and a very lucky hunter. Thank you god! He weighed 23.5lbs 8.5 inch beard and 1 1/4 right spur 1 3/8 left spur

[huntinsonovagun]

Congrats on a nice Okie tom with some AWESOME HOOKS!!!!

[drkillemquick]

Congrats on an amazing tom!!!!!

[M00N]

Congratulations!

[VermontHunter]

CONGRATS on a great looking turkey..

You got some cute kids there as well....

[elnor]

Nice spurs!

I noticed that they go from pinkish to ivory to black at the tips, just like the spurs on my first bird this year. I've seen others that were all black. I wonder if that's a difference in age or something else(?).

[Rhino]

Congrats on a real nice bird. Glad he gave you a 2nd chance. I've had some of those before too.

[huntinsonovagun]

Hey stick and elnor- Where did each of you kill your birds??? (county, town, etc...)

elnor- That's one pretty eastern you killed! Somehow I missed the original thread!

[stick]

I got mine in stevens county about 15 miles north of Ringling.

[elnor]

Thanks, huntin. I found him in Pittsburg county.

My father's and uncle's birds killed in the edge of the same field had all black spurs, but I imagine they were three year olds and mine was probably two. I'm wondering how that might correlate to stick's or others' birds(?).

[beagleboy]

Congrats on a great bird.

[huntn4bucks]

Awesome bird. Congrats!

[PA_Spike_King]

Congrats on that whale of a bird. 23.5 lb WOW.

[BamaTrophyHunter]

nice bird and really good spurs

[woodsman2230]

Congrats....Great Bird!