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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: Big game archer on April 17, 2016, 04:50:40 PM

Title: Idaho Toms
Post by: Big game archer on April 17, 2016, 04:50:40 PM: Woke up early on Friday and had a real close call on a tom to start off the morning. Ended up calling two toms into 15 yards at 2:30pm. They came in and put on a good show strutting and drumming the whole way. Shot the bigger of the two, luckily for his buddy there is a one bird/day limit in Idaho, otherwise my season wouldve been done right there. Saturday was pretty quiet with not much action. Today, I slept in and went out around 8:00 am. It was really quiet until 10:00am when a tom gobbled way off in the distance. I slowly worked my way to him and got to about 250 yards away. He stopped gobbling for half an hour and I was thinking about trying to get closer when I noticed him silently sneaking in about 75 yards out. Ended up putting the smack down on him at about 11:30am. The tom I shot today (second pic) had a jake-sized beard but had a full fan and almost one inch spurs. Must have had beard rot or something. Kind of bummed my season is already over!

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Title: Re: Idaho Toms
Post by: Major Caruncles on April 17, 2016, 05:12:44 PM: Atta boy!!
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Post by: rosscrazyelk on April 17, 2016, 05:47:00 PM: Very nice
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Post by: Tree Killer on April 17, 2016, 06:30:34 PM: Nicely done...congratulations! :tup:
Title: Re: Idaho Toms
Post by: GrampasGuns on April 17, 2016, 07:02:29 PM: Love it! If you could wack 2 in Kittitas county I would have doubled opening day! I guess now I'll start working out to get ready for archery season. Nice birds man!

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Title: Re: Idaho Toms
Post by: tgomez on April 17, 2016, 07:16:07 PM: Nice, both tags filled early in the season on 2 good birds. :tup:
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Post by: PA BEN on April 17, 2016, 07:37:51 PM: :tup:dirt nap :tup:
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Post by: Mark251 on April 17, 2016, 09:23:23 PM: Nice work :tup:
Title: Re: Idaho Toms
Post by: turkeydancer on April 18, 2016, 07:13:09 AM: Quote from: tgomez on April 17, 2016, 07:16:07 PM
Nice, both tags filled early in the season on 2 good birds. :tup:

Klickitat County is 2 birds per the turkey regs ! :bash: