My buddy and I went out on opening day and bagged a gobbler with about a 8 inch beard. The birds are tuff this year. seems like they only get smarter. Wasnt able to call any in so it was more like deer hunting chasing them around the woods. We were walking the derection we were hearing gobbles when we cut down a ridge to a road opening bam there stands a couple toms and hens who never mad a sound. So now that we were busted we just sat and waited. The toms decided to take off around the cornor and leave one hen to sit and watch us. At this point im thinking to my self that there setting us up so as soon as that hen turned her head for a split second I gave my buddy the signal and wy started to double back up the hill. Lets just say we were moving at a fast pace so by time we make it back to the top of the hill and we are out of breath theres an explosion, not from the gun but the tom standing five feet from me but out of view on the other side of a thick bush. I could make out 2 turkeys but couldnt tell which one was the tom. Luckely my buddy had a better position and could see them both and then i hear him say shoot. Im still unsure of which bird is the tom so I ask which one.
His reply was this one. Boom his gun goes off and then one turkey flies while the other stumbles and tries to run off. But he only made it about another ten feet and then had a private escort back to the truck. So I guess in short what im saying is I need to head back out to the woods.