First Day Success

  Well Done....Nice bird.....

thanks guys. he put on quite the show coming in. my dad never saw him, he was sitting 10 yds behind me. Now he'll be sitting in front, even though i still have one tag left

ORIGINAL: erieboogieman

1 bird for the jr. hunt and 1 on the first day. And still have 1 tag left, how did you do that ?

Yeah, good point how do you get 3 tags?

No, he hunted the PA Junior hunt last Saturday and the 1st day of the regular PA season.
 
BTW, you can get 2 tags in PA.......

I got this long beard at 7 the first day 9 inch beard and 1 inch spursI got this bird monday morning at 830 both my tags are filled pretty exciting hunting

that second pic of mine is a mountain bird

both mine were in pa but the mountain bird came from tionesta

Congratulations folks !

Adding pics from my daughter youth day bird.  Details over there on youth post.
 
..Or not.  I click embed picture in post and it won't do it.  Try later.

any of you turkey hunters that dont want you wing feathers, i will pay shiping and handling if you send them to me. i use them to make flecthings for arrows thanks. mike j. just the primary and secondary wing feathers

i use my wings when i do my fly down call early in the morning. hit them against your leg..works great

Got one this morning.

Never heard one gobble on the limb. Being that the ground was wet and quiet, worked my way up and out a ridge. 2 times I hear a faint gobble at 0700 but cannot tell where it is coming from. I continue to slowly walk and hear it again, it's out in front of me about 250 yds. I go another 50 yds and hear it again but now it's much closer, we're moving toward each other. I set up a hen decoy, find a good tree, and sit down.
I make one short series of yelps and the woods explodes 100 yds away, 2 birds that both double gobbled. I wait for a minute or two and turn my head away from the birds and let out a couple cutts and short yelps. That gets another series of doubles. I go silent. They gobble 2 more times on their own and much closer, then they appear, heads white as light bulbs. They see the decoy and both go into strut side by side walking to the decoy.
I picked the larger of the two (front bird now) and nail him at 30 yds.
I stand up and bird number two is still standing there. He starts spurring the flopping bird. I start cutting and yelping loudly with him responding with gobble after gobble. I finally take 5 steps closer and he runs off. I get to the down bird, take my vest off, take a cell phone pic, send it to my Dad, the bird that ran away starts gobbling again 100 yds away. I left him still gobbling away.......

From first gobble to shot was 15 minutes.

10 1/4 beard, 1" spurs, didn't weigh yet but probably around 20 lbs.