One of my heaviest turkey's to date

[Water Rat]

I was fortunate to shoot this guy this morning. He weighed in at 23 1/2 pounds with a 10" beard and 1 1/4" spurs. When I got home , I took him out of my truck and was walking to the side of my garage. I was just getting ready to breast out the meat. At this time , there was a gobbler walking on my lawn watching what I was doing. As soon as I put my turkey down , he came running over looking for a fight. He then began strutting , drumming and putting at his fallen comrade. He then proceeded to mount him and began pecking his head. All this commotion attracted another gobbler that was in my back yard and now it was a 2 on1 brawl. A few jakes walked over to watch but didn't get involved. It was pretty cool to watch. Unfortunately , I can't figure out how to post the video I shot of it.

[helmut in the bush]

Wurd

[grampy]

Congrats on a great bird!  And awesome pic's!!  Where did you say you lived?????......grin.

[Five Seasons]

wow

[dbHunterNY]

driving to work and right on the side of I-87 there was a tom mounting a hen. in the burbs where nobody shoots at them they really don't seem to care. soon as it's an area they're hunted, totally different. same as deer i suppose.

[dbHunterNY]

cool pictures.

[doebuck1234]

Nice pics and congrats!

[Water Rat]

Funny how I can practically pet them in my yard , but I get the shakes when I'm hunting them. This morning my heart was pounding so hard I thought he could hear it.

[WNYBuckHunter]

Congrats on the bird. Really cool what happened too.

If you want to post a video, you have to upload it to youtube or some other hosting site and then link it here.

[Water Rat]

Thank you..........maybe I'll try it soon.

[rob-c]

Well now , that was a cool story.. congrats 

[Water Rat]

https://youtu.be/QhsFdrMxuQI

[Water Rat]

Thanks again WNYBuckHunter.

Now I gotta be careful I don't get myself banned with this new found technology.

 

[Robhuntandfish]

amazing video!!  except it makes me feel a little dumb that i cant call one of those in most of the time and you couldve gotten one there with a rake!  lol. 

[steve863]

Water Rat, why do you even waste a shotshell on wild turkey's?   Looks like you can just open your front door and have them waddle into your kitchen.  From there you can have them walk right into your oven.  Shut it and set at 325 for 4 1/2  hours!  You don't need to waste a trip to Wegman's for that Butterball.  LOL

[turkeyfeathers]

Subtract 2 ounces of 5’s from the weight    Nice bird !  

[Lawdwaz]

1 hour ago, Water Rat said:

https://youtu.be/QhsFdrMxuQI

Nicely done with the Talking Heads in the background.