Boy did I screw up!!!

[Baxter83]

This morning I set out after another long beard at the same place where I got one yesterday. Not going to go into details about the hunt, but I will say it was just as awesome if not more so than yesterday's hunt. It just didn't end as well...

All I can say is......If you're a turkey within my sight then you'd better not fan out and gobble with a long beard then follow him behind a tree and some brush and then be the first to stick your head out of the other side! This guy made that mistake and boy did it suck to watch the Tom that was with him fly out of the other side after I made the shot! I'll take it though! At least I know there are no less than 3 more good sized Toms wondering around out there. When I shot I saw 3 LB's fly up (one of them being the one I mistaked this jake for). Heck, there might have been more than that. That's the crappy part about hunting on the side of a hill waiting for them to come up. You don't see them until they're on top of you.

It's hard to tell from the picture, but his beard was actually right at 4". So he was getting there

 

[Setterman]

sneaky arse jakes, they love to do that. I think the LB's push them out to see if everything is okay. It hasn't happened to me in eons, but I am very cautious about pulling the trigger until I can see a longbeard or know for sure it is a mature gobbler. I have nothing against folks who shoot jakes, but for me I treasure every tag, and wish to only use them on LB's.

Shrug it off, tomorrow is a new day.

 

[spitndrum]

Good Enough Congrats!

 

[easy45]

It will taste just as good

 

[JohnnyBond]

QTM ............ trust they eat just as good as the big ones :grin:

 

[buckdead]

did the same thing last year on the last day of the season.
congrats on a good hunt

 

[Baxter83]

No worries. I'm tickled to have got two birds in two days. I just think after this one I'll make sure to be pulling the trigger on a long-beard. QTM for me the rest of the season!

 

[Grizzly Johnson]

If you would lay that rod down during turkey season and turkey hunt, you might not be so trigger happy..... you would have more time to hunt longbeards..... besides, I heard you couldn't fish anyway....

lol, just messing, congrats man!!

 

[tonkatoy]

Congrats!!

 

[Bertman]

 

[Goshen Valley Boy]

I have been known to shoot a jake or two in my time Congrats on the two birds.

 

[Big J]

I would kill him!!!