Beautiful Morning this Morning. I was up before daylight and walking through last years peanut feild to a ridge I had already set a blind up on so the birds would be used to it.Walked up on a near Suicide possum in the dark.When I almost stepped on him in the dark I thought I was snakebit because he hissed like a fat Cottonmouth.

  I eased on in and got in my blind after checking it for snakes....
 Daylight broke and the Ridge was alive. Squirrels and birds were active but no Gobbles. I know there are Turkeys here becuse I have hunted this place 30 years so I sat back in my chair and waited. The Turkeys were coming to the field everyday and were in it after lunch everyday I checked so I felt confident .

 I yelped a few soft yelps every 15 minutes or so and around 8:30 a gobbler hammered three times in a row. I called to him and no answer.I laid the slate down and got ready. 30 minutes...nothing. I heard something to my left oppisite where the Gobbler was at and caught this fella checking me out. Its a gift from God to see stuff like this in the woods..

 


 More time went by and no Bird. I almost reached for the call and reached for a pack of crackers instead.After a couple of bites I looked over for my water bottle and almost choked. A big Tom was in front of the blind at ten yards . I got the bow up ..Mudfeathers Wesley Special and got ready. I nicked something with the bottom limb and it made a small ding and everything started going to the bad fast. The Big Tom got by a Pine and would have got away but he turned back headed for the swamp instead of running towards the field.I hit a bit forward of the hips where I like to shoot Turkeys but I got lucky and he only went a little ways. Shot him with a Simmons Interceptor I got from the hogslayer Chris Surtees.2 year old bird I think.RC

 

Awesome RC!  Congratulations and thanks for the pictures and story!    You had a lot of "Mojo" going for you.

Way to go RC !!!!!!!!!!!!          

Awesome!!!  Great shooting buddy!!  That squirrel is beautiful too, really neat looking colors!

Fantastic!!  Nice conect on what must have been a tough moving shot.  

Good going Robert....

Nice job...did you get change for your dollar...lol!

outstanding!!!!!!

real awesome rc! that top pic is cool what a funny looking treerat.

Congrats!,,,,unlucky for that bird you didn't hear a hog squeal.!

Sweeeet! I have to hand it to ya man. Keeping it together with an alert bird and making the shot under pressure deserves a big thumbs up  

Congrats!  Goodness May can't get here fast enough!

   

Congrats!    

Congrats RC.  Nice bird and great story.

Congrats RC, that's a nice looking bird. 16 more days til our season opens.  Can't wait.

BOB

Graet job RC! Nice bird...thanks for sharing the story and pic's.

         Great to see.

Real nice bird! Right on!

Great bird and nice looking squirrel.