Wife and I done GOOD today! (pic)

[Mathews XT Man]

Wisconsin Turkey opener today here....we hit the daily double!!
We got out and set up and had birds working our set right off..only thing it was just hens..we came in about 10:30 and went for a drive to locate birds in the area..we headed out for an area that is swamp. Located a huge gobbler strutting on a service road along State DNR land. Was able to get in on the bird and got right on top of him in thick cedar. He was 24.5# and over 1" spurs with a 10" beard. We then went and registered that bird, and headed back home to get set up for the afternoon hunt. We saw a couple hens..and about 5 pm Kim was ready to head in because her feet were geting cold, so I cranked up Mr. Heater. At 5:15 along comes three huge toms strutting right around the corner of my plot heading to "pretty Boy".. they were not wasting time and looked pretty angry...the waddels were as DEEP RED as could be...another gobbler was on their turf and they were ready to rumble!! What a sight!!...I told Kim to get her gun up and take the first tom she could get a bead on..BOOM!..and there were feathers flying and one bird flys off the plot. The one she hit didnt make it off, and the third one landed by the hit bird and proceeded to knock the stuffing out of it!! Then he came right over in front of us and wanted to have a little pretty boy too...it was a heck of a show!! And it happened so fast you just react.Kim's bird was 21.5# 3/4 " spurs and a 9.5" beard. It was as Roger Raglin would say...and both of us can also say..."I had a pretty good day."!! My local Taxidermist will be doing a fan/beard/and spur mount of both birds with our photo in a frame..I must say this..today as we finished our am devotions, we asked the Lord to bless us with two nice gobblers before heading out...I'd say He Done Good!

Here are the spurs from my Swamp chicken

Close up of my swamp chicken.

[VermontHunter]

CONGRATS to you and the Mrs. , Martin those are sure some nice looking Toms ..

[Dakota]

That's awesome! Definitely a memorable hunt for you two for sure!

Dakota

[HUNTINGMAN]

Congrats on some nice birds,man those are some long spurs.

[USAFbowhunter]

Congrats to both of you on two great birds!!!!

[WHISKEYSWAMP]

couple of great birds! congrats to you both!

[Rhino]

Congrats to both of you on a couple of great opening day shows.

[PotashRLS]

That is an awesome day afield. Great job to the both of you.

[jbeck]

Great Job Martin, I just wonder why God blessed you with a good looking hunting partner, and cursed her. LOL

All I get to hunt with are

Knuckle dragging
no reading
short winded
no shooting
short bus riding
no calling
no place to hunt
no bird
tabbaco spitting
no tooth
red necks,

Yep that pretty much explains it. LOL

[wtnhunt]

That is really cool. Very nice birds too Martin. Congratulations to you both.

[BAMABUCKS]

That's two awesome birds right there. Congrats to the both of you.

[GWSmith]

Congrats to you both...Fine looking Birds for sure!

[3seasons]

Congrats on two nice birds

[saphira]

Congrats to you both on 2 great looking turkeys

[Mathews XT Man]

I forgot to mention...we'd like to dedicate our hunts and sucess in memory of Nick Beacham