Tagged out on a tom Tuesday AM with my brother and dad out.
Made it to another one of my new properties and got settled in on a field edge putting 2 hens and a jake decoy out while the birds were sounding off in the bush within 100 yrds of us. 45 mins into legal light the first group of birds showed itself as the broke a small brushy point off the bush 40 yrds away.
5 hens and 2 jakes skirted us with 1 of the jakes coming in for a look, but my bro decided to let him walk even though he had the recurve in hand and said he was shooting a jake if given the chance.
2 birds kept us occupied for quite awhile back in the bush and closing the distance and backing off for who knows how long before deciding to show themselves.
2 toms finally entered the field not more then 10 yrds from me gobbling and strutting as they walked by me at 3 yrds heading for the decoys.
I was waiting for my brother to launch an arrow at them when they hit the 19 yrds but they wouldn't break apart enough for him to shoot and started to walk away.
When they got to 22 yrds to my right and out of range for him I let the 12ga bark and I was tagged out...
23 1/2 lbs
10 1/16" beard
7/8" & 1" spurs
Wed we went to the same spot I shot my 2'nd tom with a little action and then decided to make a move to another property early afternoon and fired up a bird.
15 mins and we had the tom into 20 yrds but he wouldn't come out from behind a few branches that were in the way for my brother to shoot and we watched him walk away.
Thursday morning we decided to try and work the bird from Wed with action all morning.
First birds in were 2 jakes hanging up at 30 yrds, 5 yrds outside my brothers comfort zone.
A tom fired up within mins of the jakes coming in and we worked him for about 2 hrs before getting him into 25 yrds but on the wrong side of the blind so no shot.
We made one big move and switched up the calls and worked a bunch of birds into view "came in silent" only to spook after seeing my dad turning his head because he didn't know they were there.
Me and my brother thought that was probably it for the morning but as I was looking at my dad through the window of the blind I could see he was positioning himself to shoot as he slowly shouldered the gun.
I looked out the camo mesh on the side window to see a tom working in at 14 yrds "silent" and told my brother to get ready.
When he popped out onto the trail at 25 yrds my brother sent the arrow on its way just missing but dad backed him up and BOOOOOOOOOOOM the bird was down.
22 1/2 lbs
10"+ beard
7/8" spurs
Awesome end to Ont. spring turkey
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