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Tagged out, what to do now?

NaturesWay

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I took my first bird on Saturday, May 2 with a good friend of mine. We chased these birds all morning long. Once the hens left them, they came right in.

This was a first for me, I never thought turkeys would cross a stream and walk up a ravine to find a hen. However, that is exactly what they did. Here we were thinking we needed to get down the ravine and across the streams (this ravine was about a 30 foot drop) when all of the sudden I saw three birds cross the steam and heading right for us. We quickly sat down an contemplated what we should do as we never thought they would come in that quick, but before we could decide the first Tom peeked his head over the ravine only 20 feet away and I put him to rest.

He weighed 21 lbs 3 oz., with an 8 1/2" beard and 1 1/4" spurs!!

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After tagging that bird I decided to take Sunday off and hunt Monday, May 4 with my father. We got to our spot bight and early and never heard a gobble all morning up until 8:30. I decided I was going to check another property we have permission to hunt and my father decided he would stay where we were.

I walked into a small plot of woods adjacent to a large field and made a call. He hammered right back and only about 150 yards away. I set up my decoys and made two more series of cluck and yelps and he came in on a string, strutting and gobbling. He came in so fast I wasn't on the property more than 15 mins and I was walking out of the woods with my second gobbler.

He weighed 20 lbs. 5 oz., 9 1/2" beard and 1" spurs.

What a season, so now what do I do? I've never tagged out this early before. I guess I could do some fishing.

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