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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.

Great picture, congrats.

Thank you. I’m proud of the way it turned out, because it’s a “selfie”. I was hunting by myself, and it was my first time to use a Bluetooth remote for my iphone.

Yeah, great picture and heck of a bird. 27lbs is a butterball. Good eating there! Congrats!

Big old Tom! Great selfie pic too.

Nice bird. Crazy weight for that short of beard and spurs.

Congrats!

Way to go

Nice pic and story. Congrats!

That’s a big bird, congratulations. Great picture too. 👍
Would like to hear more about your Blaser combo gun, looks interesting.

That bird was eatin' good !!!

Great pic, too. Congrats !!!

Here’s a better picture of the gun.

27 lbs! that is a well fed bird!
Very cool gun and congrats

That’s a beautiful bird! How is Oklahoma’s turkey population?