Evening Expiration.

April 26 2008 It was about 4:00 p.m. when Patrick, Morgan and I decided to try a evening turkey hunt. so we got a ride down to they ol' hunting ranch and split up, Morgan went to his ground blind and I went in mine that was about 150 yards from Morgan’s blind, Patrick was video taping me so we just waited for a while never calling and we waited for about 2 hours. Then I heard what sounded like a strutting tom so I turned around and saw a nice tom working his way up the hill following a hen... (notice on the video he comes to the Flambeau decoy) and went up right where the hen did so I looked through my Nikon pro-staff range finder and it read 30 yards so I drew back my 61 pound Martin Cheetah bow and put the 30 yard pin right on his wing bone and released the arrow with a smoke broad-heads on the end of it and it hit a branch in front of the turkey and deflected my arrow a little bit and the arrow was a little farther back than I had hoped so we went up looked at where I had shot him at and tried to find my arrow but it was gone so we decided to head down were we last saw the bird and started looking for him and then Morgan called saying he found my bird. But it somehow had enough energy to take off again! And so he told Patrick and I to go over to where he was and so we did and he showed us the direction of where it went and we started walking through the woods and we soon came to a little meadow and I was just going into it and I see this turkey start running so I drew back cause I new it was my bird so he stopped at about 55 yards and I put another shot in him and that was the end of that hunt.He weighed 18 lbs 7.5 inch beard ¾ inch spurs.
I told Pat that there was a tom behind us and we got situated for the shot just incase we got one so we were waiting for a while and watching him and he goes up the hill out of sight and so I thought we had lost him but then I seen the hen that he was following him. Come up onto the old logging road at about 43 yards and it just kept walking towards us and then went up the hill at about 30 yards and passed on by. Then I was looking for the tom just incase he was still following the hen and sure enough around this little bush, which was on a logging road comes the tom in full strut and now he is at about 80 yards. Coming our way and so we watched him until he got to about 40 yards.
(notice on the video he comes to the Flambeau decoy) and went up right where the hen did so I looked through my Nikon pro-staff range finder and it read 30 yards so I drew back my 61 pound Martin Cheetah bow and put the 30 yard pin right on his wing bone and released the arrow with a smoke broad-heads on the end of it and it hit a branch in front of the turkey and deflected my arrow a little bit and the arrow was a little farther back than I had hoped so we went up looked at where I had shot him at and tried to find my arrow but it was gone so we decided to head down were we last saw the bird and started looking for him and then Morgan called saying he found my bird. But it somehow had enough energy to take off again! And so he told Patrick and I to go over to where he was and so we did and he showed us the direction of where it went and we started walking through the woods and we soon came to a little meadow and I was just going into it and I see this turkey start running so I drew back cause I new it was my bird so he stopped at about 55 yards and I put another shot in him and that was the end of that hunt.He weighed 18 lbs 7.5 inch beard ¾ inch spurs.