Atchman2
Well-Known Member
This week has been horrible. The first two days were good, but basically we were scouting and trying to figure out the birds. This is the Kansas archery only season that starts the week before the firearms season. It is nice to be the first to hunt, but often the weather interferes.
Wednesday and Thursday we had a blizzard! The wind was over 70 mph and it snowed several inches. That really put the damper on the hunting. Friday it was a little better but so very cold. I busted a roost on this farm and they never returned. Fast forward till today.
This was the farm I killed my first Rio Grande turkey with a bow. I placed the blind in a location where we had a brush blind from the year before. Well it was poor for hunting this time, but it was amazing to hear them all! The trees THUNDERED with gobblers all around us. A boss hen managed to pull the away from us and we didn't get a shot.
So we moved the blind to where I killed my very first Kansas bird. You could see them from a distance there and sure enough they flew down from the bluff above. I watched them for about half an hour and finally the gobblers committed. (yes we use a blind and decoys, but we also use a stinking bow or crossbow in the 20 mph winds). I called and got a firm loud gobble and saw two Toms coming under the fence. I couldn't see them approach but my nephew indicated they were approaching. The two birds that approached however were NOT the ones I saw go under the fence. I saw the first one was a Jake but the second one was puffed out at full strut. I aimed just above the wing and THWACK! The bird went down, then the OTHER bird went down! I tagged out the last hour of the last day of a week long hunting trip with ONE arrow.
It turns out that the gobblers has sheered off the my right. Both Jakes kept coming and when I shot the arrow went through them both. I was using my brother in laws Barnett Crossbow with the Carbon Express arrows. The broadhead was a 125 grain fixed. Not sure of the brand, but they work just fine for turkeys.
Wednesday and Thursday we had a blizzard! The wind was over 70 mph and it snowed several inches. That really put the damper on the hunting. Friday it was a little better but so very cold. I busted a roost on this farm and they never returned. Fast forward till today.
This was the farm I killed my first Rio Grande turkey with a bow. I placed the blind in a location where we had a brush blind from the year before. Well it was poor for hunting this time, but it was amazing to hear them all! The trees THUNDERED with gobblers all around us. A boss hen managed to pull the away from us and we didn't get a shot.
So we moved the blind to where I killed my very first Kansas bird. You could see them from a distance there and sure enough they flew down from the bluff above. I watched them for about half an hour and finally the gobblers committed. (yes we use a blind and decoys, but we also use a stinking bow or crossbow in the 20 mph winds). I called and got a firm loud gobble and saw two Toms coming under the fence. I couldn't see them approach but my nephew indicated they were approaching. The two birds that approached however were NOT the ones I saw go under the fence. I saw the first one was a Jake but the second one was puffed out at full strut. I aimed just above the wing and THWACK! The bird went down, then the OTHER bird went down! I tagged out the last hour of the last day of a week long hunting trip with ONE arrow.
It turns out that the gobblers has sheered off the my right. Both Jakes kept coming and when I shot the arrow went through them both. I was using my brother in laws Barnett Crossbow with the Carbon Express arrows. The broadhead was a 125 grain fixed. Not sure of the brand, but they work just fine for turkeys.
