Steve
Great day at the golf course this is my [location deleted] bow kill got him on last day. Hunted a different property each day. Saw toms on each, miss 3 before I got this 10 3/4 in tom. On [location deleted] I called to a tom for solid hour, he would not come in, finally he flew to a tree latter flew to another tree behind the blind then dropped to the ground half hour later. I decided to give up and pack out, made a last effort with very loud aggressive cutting calls he ran behind the back window swung around in front of the blind only to see my tom decoy, he turned to leave and I shot missed. On [location deleted] I called in 3 toms and they came running. They were too close together finally after they moved apart I once again shot, missed, he gobbled at me numerous times as he left. The first morning I had roosted a tom the night before and set up on [location deleted] I had my bow sight hanging out the window to light up the pins. At legal time I looked over to check my pins and there outside of the window was a long beard doing the same at full strut at 18 yds with me biting my lip. He circled out I got bow back in the blind, shot, missed another. The flock came out of the timber, 3 toms put on a great fight at 40 yds. Toms came by and once again I miss judged the distance and missed. Hunted [location deleted] had many toms there also. Saw a tom on [location deleted] great hunt plenty of toms.
A later hunt.
"...I did get a very nice old tom..."
"...Still trying for that 2nd [location deleted] tom with bow. Included picture of my first [location deleted] tom on opening weekend of archery."
