Heading to Kansas for turkeys

trubltrubl · April 13, 2018, 05:31:57 AM

Congrats ...nice job , thnx for story

Jim Brennen · April 13, 2018, 07:49:21 AM

Congrats, that is awesome. Great story

Cyclic-Rivers · April 13, 2018, 02:03:12 PM

Congrats on the Tom, Tom! Definitely crummy weather here all weekend sleet rain and hail here! About 12 inches worth this weekend

doubleo · April 13, 2018, 04:16:48 PM

Congrats on a great bird, Tom!

suburbanirma · April 13, 2018, 09:48:27 PM

Friday the 13th dawned in southern Kansas with a chorus of distant gobbles muffled by a constant roar of the prairie wind. I set out a lone hen decoy (tethered to reduce lateral movement) and then disappeared into my popup blind. Despite my hen-yelp pleading for a gobbler to come to my position nothing happened at all until about 10 a.m. when a quartet of jakes approached the decoy. After a botched shot at one of the birds with my Bullhead, they merely moved away about 20 yards where they looked around and eventually lay down. I soft-yelped at them for about a half hour, and they again approached the decoy. This time my bow was armed with a Woodman broadhead. I picked out one of the bigger jakes, drew the arrow and sent it through the bird's heart. It ran off about 15 yards and tumbled down. The other jakes ran to it, fanned out and strutted there for several minutes.
Thus ended my Kansas archery spring turkey hunt.
I used my backup bow, an ILF setup for this chapter of my adventure.

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BowMIke · April 13, 2018, 09:58:29 PM

Congratulations on a great hunt. Good Shooting!

Orion · April 13, 2018, 09:59:33 PM

Now that's doing it double right. Congrats on a good hunt. Thanks for taking us along.

Looks like the weather is going to be pretty bad the next 48 hours. You might need to camp out there for a while.

knobby · April 13, 2018, 10:50:01 PM

Congratulations Tom. Looks like Thanksgiving came early this year.

snakebit40 · April 14, 2018, 02:51:40 PM

Congrats Tom! What a great way to start your spring!!!

BrushWolf · April 14, 2018, 03:18:36 PM

Congrats on two great birds.

cacciatore · April 14, 2018, 04:03:08 PM

Way to go,a double

Orion · April 14, 2018, 07:32:23 PM

Tom. Weather black here is terrible. Did you hole up there for a few days or are you making your way back?

suburbanirma · April 14, 2018, 09:08:10 PM

Jerry, I'm holed up here in Kansas until tomorrow morning. I'll check the weather maps then and decide what to do from there. Just take my time, I guess.

Ray Lyon · April 14, 2018, 09:09:02 PM

Congratulations Tom. Wait a couple of days to come back. Northern Michigan got 8" of snow last night and probably another 2-4 coming tomorrow.

BRONZ · April 14, 2018, 10:07:26 PM

Well done sir! Tagged out with stickbows. Impressive!

Carcajou · April 15, 2018, 08:11:17 AM

2 Birds down!! Way to go,quite an acoomplishment. Ive only done that once in my Turkey hunting career, where Ive harvested 2 birds back to back with a bow. Thanks for sharing.

Cyclic-Rivers · April 15, 2018, 08:59:51 AM

Congrats on # 2 tom.

Good idea to wait to come home. Up by you, we received 12 inches yesterday. another 8 last night and there is no sign of it slowing down. My turkey season starts next week, probably the first time I will have hunted turkeys in a couple feet of snow. Unfortunately, they are all holed up in town at peoples bird feeders right now.

Warden609 · April 15, 2018, 08:23:38 PM

23feetupandhappy · April 16, 2018, 03:16:34 PM

Sounds like you had a fantastic hunt, Congrats!!!!!