While bowhunting for deer this fall, I saw different flocks of turkeys on several occasions working like street sweepers going through the woods and skulking along the edge of a food plot. Two of the flocks were led by hens, including a bearded hen. The bulk of the flock was made up of poults, some of them young toms that were much larger than the hens. A third flock was all gobblers.
I went out early this afternoon to sit in a pop-up blind along one of the food plots. I nodded off a couple of times, but came to in time to get a crack at a turkey with my Stick longbow. I picked out a young tom from the flock of eight birds that was going by the blind at about six yards, drew down on him and shish-kabobbed it with a carbon arrow tipped with a Simmons interceptor. It raced off into the tag alders dragging the arrow. I got out of the blind to try and determine where it went.
I soon found the arrow lying on the ground. Watching ahead as I moved through the alder thicket in the direction the turkeys had fled, I saw the mortally wounded turkey hunkered down in a stand of a spruce trees. I circled it until I had an opening to shoot through and dispatched it.
This bird should be a "good eater" and will be part of a game feast when our sons and their families visit over Thanksgiving.  
It has been a great fall!

 

Harvesting your own Thanksgiving! What could be better?
Congrats. Very Nice.          

NICEWORK!!!

Nice  

Nice!!!

 

Now all we need is a photo of the Thanksgiving dinner table with the roasted bird sitting proudly in the center.    

Great job Brother!

nice looking bird!

Well done!

Congrats!

fire up the smoker!

You're like one of the pilgrims!       Congratulations on a fine fall turkey!  Great picture by the way!  Happy Thanksgiving!

Bernie Bjorklund

NC Iowa/SW Wisconsin

Congrats, you will have a great Thanksgiving day with that fresh turkey.

Great job Tom on the Thanksgiving Tom! Have a happy one.

Outstanding, Tom!  Congratulations!  That one is gonna eat great.

We'll done!

Now that is cool! A Thanksgiving turkey with your longbow!

Hey, good for you Tom. Congratulations. Turkeys with a stick bow are big game in my book.

Congratulations Tom! You're certainly on a roll this Fall. Good luck on the upcoming hog hunt.

nice fall Bird!