Kansas baby

[mrklean]

Should be in the blind in less then 5 hours cant wait

[DonBo]

Looks like you'll have a nice stretch of weather. Good luck, stick a big one!

Nine more days for me.

[sticknstring]

Now I know how you guys felt when I went down earlier - it's torture. Next year, I'm taking the month of April off!

Good luck mrklean!

[mrklean]

Well guys I'm done lasted about 2 hours

[Wanderer]

Wassupp?? Two?

[Archerysniper]

Well guys I'm done lasted about 2 hours

Congrat to you and glad to see the first person on the board, can wait for the story and pic's to follow

[mrklean]

Jake and a tom if my buddy tags out in the am we might head to Nebraska get get a tag

[Archerysniper]

Jake and a tom if my buddy tags out in the am we might head to Nebraska get get a tag

Stop it now either come home or stop posting I'm going crazy here.

[Wanderer]

Stop it now either come home or stop posting I'm going crazy here.

[mrklean]

quick pic for you guys, my buddy missed 4 times today or else we would be headed out already, got some cool video from the blind today will post more later

[DonBo]

Very cool. Nice job! 8 more days for me.

[Abndoc]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!! nice job!

[mws4dux]

Great job!! Sounds like a blast. Can't wait to see the vid.

[Powerstroke]

COngrats!!! Beautiful birds!

[MJ1657]

Great job mrklean. Wish I was there.

[sticknstring]

Good shooting mrklean!

The last time I punched out on the first day, I regretted it and told myself I'd never fill up so fast again. The next year, I was selective and passed on a slamdunk double and wound up regretting it. I've figured out that you better cash-in on your opportunities or risk coming home empty. Happy to see you made the right choice - congrats!

[mrklean]

Work has been crazy this week so i haven't had time to sit down and give the recap of the trip yet but here we go. We pulled into Rich's place at about 4 in the afternoon on Friday opening day, headed to the blinds right away Rich and I went back to the blind where i shot my Tom last year because he was seeing tons of birds go through there all day. As we walked up to the blind there was a big Tom right on the other side of the trees but he could see us coming and walked off. Sat there about a little over an hour with nothing then 2 jakes came in dropped the second one, about 15 min later a group of 6 hens and a Tom came in dropped him season was done in just under 2 hours. About 20 min later another group of hens and a big Tom came in, i texted my buddy Luke to come sit in that blind because he wasn't seeing anything really in his blind, he thought i was joking so he said he was fine, well we didn't want to scare anything out of there because they roost about 50 yards from that blind so we walked to the truck, about 75 yards from the truck were 4 big Toms all strutting out with hens, we sat next to the truck for half an hour calling to them and doing gobble calls on our phones just to make them mad is was pretty funny, they had to have seen us but they kept strutting. Next morning i still wanted to go out just to sit in the blinds and relax, had two nice toms and 7 hens come in, i was texting Luke to see if they were seeing anything or any shots and all he said was yeah were seeing lots. Don't know if any of you guys remember last year but he was 2 for 7 on his shots not good. Well they picked me up and there were no birds in the truck he missed 4 times his sight was messed up on his bow. Rich offered Luke his brand new carbon element to use and Luke said no so he tinkered with his bow all afternoon. Went out the afternoon and had 3 toms and 6 or 7 hens around me all night, Luke finally got a Jake (also finally killed something with his bow after 12 years)but he ended up wounding a nice tom, his bow has no kinetic energy at all so he got little to no penetration on the bird, he also only has one arrow left. The morning Rich was going to sit with a 13 year old who was on her first hunt ever so i sat with Luke, the birds were gobbing nonstop around us roosted 50 yards from us. We got there over an hour before sun up so we were both a little tired i could see Luke falling asleep, well just after sun up 2 Jake's come in wondering why he isn't getting his bow ready i look back to see him sleeping i wake him up and he finally gets ready to shoot i have my camera phone ready he draws shoots shot looks good until i look at the video back and low not good, i looked around for almost an hour with no luck another lost bird. No he is our of arrows, but still wants to sit in the blind, we had 3 more toms come in and i asked if he wanted me to shoot one but he said no, even though last year he tagged his 2 Jake's and asked me for one of my tags which i said yes but i wasn't going to argue. Again i had a complete blast there covered in birds, saw lots of deer, found a shed and had some laughs I hope to go back again next year, but after Luke going 3 for 14 and 3 wounded birds in two years i might bring my gf on her first turkey hunt instead.

This was the group that came in right after i shot my birds

One of the groups from Saturday, also had a few bearded hens around to

This guy was killed Monday by a different hunter 1.5" spurs

no shortage of deer around here

Ill post the videos in a minute some of the better ones i had i had my phone at the wrong angle so they look horrible now.

[mrklean]

This was Saturday night two of the toms were together they chased the 3rd one of 3 or 4 different times

[AndersonOutdoors]

Not to give any guff,but they allow to hunt around feeders down there?

[mrklean]

Turkeys everywhere

[mrklean]

Deer everywhere

[mrklean]

This was in the blind before sunup Sunday, Luke wouldn't shut up when i was trying to record the turkeys goin nuts

[sticknstring]

Were those blinds at the feeders setup for hunting or just viewing being that you were already tagged out? I think your buddy could use a few practice sessions! Cool vids.

[mrklean]

We can hunt around feeders down there, its funny sometimes the birds will come to them and sometimes they wont its anyone's guess, most of the time the hens come to them but the toms and jake's usually stay away last year the birds wouldn't come anywhere near them. The 13 year old that was down there sat in the same spots i did and didn't see anything at times. My buddy needs a new bow is what he needs, when he passed up shooting that carbon element i almost punched him in the face.