Long Beard Down! Opening Day (Southern Ontario)

[4n2t0]

30 minutes into opening day and my tag was filled. I called him in from a 100 yards away and took the shot at 35 yards. He's a pretty nice tom at 21 1/2 lbs. with a 9 1/4" beard and 1 1/4" spurs. Now I have to help my brother bag his bird.

[canadatom]

Beauty bird there!! Congrats!!

[SnapT]

Congrats . Big ole bird for sure .

[Dr Juice]

Was he still alive in the second photo? His head is too high for my desire. Congrats.

[nosaj]

Was he still alive in the second photo? His head is too high for my desire. Congrats.

Looks like he narrowly averted the stunned Tom shuffle!

[4n2t0]

Was he still alive in the second photo? His head is too high for my desire. Congrats.

No, it was a stiff bird. We had a chance to harvest more than one bird that day so the pictures were taken several hours later. He had been stored in a harvest bag and the neck stayed kinked. I'm not one for too many picutres anyways.

[tomstopper]

Beautiful bird. Congrats

[silverspur]

WOW that is an awesome gobbler!