My wife and I were able to take a quick trip to Northwest Oklahoma last weekend and turkey hunt a few days. We saw lots of birds, but they were henned up all day long. The only gobbling was right after coming off the roost and late in the evening when some were looking for hens before going to the roost. Kinda weird for that area and not be able to get bird gobbling in the afternoon. Anyway, the first morning, we located where the birds were roosting before it got light and set up. We had 3 jakes come strutting in front of us for about 30 minutes. A pretty good bird came in behind them and came into our decoys. My wife took a shot at it but I guess her gun slipped off her arm as she missed and had a good bruise on her bicep. The turkeys didn't spook much at the shot so we kept working the jakes in front of us. Much to my surprise, we heard a gobble right behind us. We were able to get turned around before it came in and I called it in to about 12 yards. My wife didn't miss this time and took her first longbeard. She was sooooo excited, as was I. I bow hunted the afternoon and next morning. I did catch a coyote out prowling around at noon the first day and shot it with my bow at 50 yards. It ran about 10 yards. I had the chance to shoot a jake at 10 yards, but saw a big tom behind them so I waited. He ended up skirting around the far edge of the right of way I was hunting and never came in close enough for a shot. It was a great hunt and one I will never forget. Here are a couple of pics from our trip.
Oh, and her bird had an 8 1/2 inch beard with 3/4 inch spurs.
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Oh, and her bird had an 8 1/2 inch beard with 3/4 inch spurs.
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