Opening week success ! 2 turkeys down

[Basin_hunter]

I have been turkey hunting off an on for several years. I became serious about it about 5 years ago. I have been close to harvesting one a couple times but never punched a tag until Saturday morning, Louisiana's opening day. I was unable to locate any gobbling birds at daylight so I went set up on a clearing with fresh sign and did some soft calling for a while with no luck. I went scout out another area about 1/2 mile away and returned to my starting point about 10:30am. Before I headed back to the truck to try another spot i did some aggressive calling on my pot call and one finally answered ! I setup quick and about 10 yelps and 4 gobbles later i saw the blue head through the grass. I folded him up with the hvy 13 mag blends at about 40 yards. Boy was I pumped. He weighed almost 17 lbs, 1 inch spurs and a 10 1/2 inch beard. I took the day off Sunday and hit the woods again Monday Morning with my buddy. We jumped out the boat on separate sides of the slough. Once again I did not hear a single gobble at daylight ! I tried locating a bird with crow and owl calls but had no luck. I kicked in to run and gun mode around 930am. I stopped in about 5 locations and tried calling with no responses. I was hunting back to the boat for lunch and finally got a very distant response. I closed the distance and sat down along a big slough. He would gobble at my calls but not come closer. So I kept moving closer to him and would cut and yelp at him. I finally heard a close gobble, and the last time I called he cut me off. I put the call down and picked my gun up. I heard leaves crunching then I saw in coming in strutting. I shot him at 20yards. He weighed 20lbs, 10.5 inch beard, 1 1/4inch left spur, 1 3/8inch right spur. What a rush !



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[JVA54]

  Congrats!!     

[hookedspur]

GOOD JOB 

[Hognutz]

Congrats on the great birds. Fun game, hey..Mike

[Rio Fan]

Nice job - congratulations!

[bowhunter84]

     congrats on a great bird

[turkeybow]

   Congrats on two FINE birds 

[timbrhuntr]

Great bird for your first. Even better bird for your second. The pressure is off and it looks like the birds are gonna come now. Congrats on getting your first also.   

[trkycaller]

Congrats!!

[PANYHunter]

Congrats on the great first birds  

[redleg06]

Swamp birds!!!

Congrats

[cassga]

Way to stick with it and congrats on two great birds!

[M,Yingling]

Congrats   

[pittboss]

Congrats That looks like a fun area to hunt

pittboss