I had a family funeral to attend Monday morning in Oklahoma, so I went up Sunday to my place in Alfalfa county and got in an evening turkey hunt on opening day of spring season. I had two toms answer my call, but I only got to see them through my binos as they went the other way. A little while later, I had a jake come within range, but I let him leave healthy and lead free.
I spend most of Monday funeraling and visiting with family I don’t see often, but I got back to place in time to hunt again. I almost didn’t go, because it was hot, windy, and there’s a ton of buffalo nats. I set up in a ground blind under and behind a locust tree, and I was texting with a buddy and randomly calling. I heard clucking behind and to the left of my blind, and I hit the call again. About a minute later, this tom walked around the blind on the right side. When the tree was between me and him, I was able to get my gun up and take an 8 yard shot with my Blaser BBF97 12 ga over 308 combo gun and a handloaded 1 1/4 oz #6 shell.
He had a 6.5” beard, 7/8 and 1” spurs, and weighed 27 lbs.

Congrats!

Congrats, heavy gobbler as well

Nice