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The birds in KS were not coming to the call so the bow was fairly difficult. I did shoot one with the shotgun though. The gobblers were talking alot and following hens but the hens were not interested. Next week will probably be good.

I am going tomorrow morning with my bow this will be my very first try at turkey with archery. I have killed 3 nice toms with the crossbow and around 40 or so with shotgun but never with the compound. I am shooting a drenalin and thundhead 100S no blind but. I am going to carry a big piece of burlap to set it up if I think it will help. I don't expect to be plucking a bird tomorrow but I can a baseball size target at 30 yards so in the morning its on.

I tried my hand at bow hunting for the woods gobblins and I am hooked. I called in a really nice tom today and The bird was strutting for 10 or 15 minutes at 20 yards in front of me. He was trying to impress my 2 decoys. I made a makeshift blind out of a piece of burlap and this was working just fine until a hen showed up and looked through the square I had cut out to shoot thru. I was waiting for the gobbler to turn around so I could draw the bow and did not expect this hen to show up. I thought I had all the time I needed to wait for the shot I guess I should have just tried to draw when he was facing me. I will give it another try tomorrow.

Last Friday at 5:00 pm, I got in a double bull blind 200 yards from a roost in south dakota. Had two hen decoys (stuffed real hens) out. One hour later three long beards were strutting at 25 yards. Shot one, he ran less than five yards and folded.
I stayed put and an hour later watched three jakes "have their way" with one hen decoy at eight yards. Then watched 27 hens and gobblers fly up to roost. Waited till it was black dark and slipped away so as to not disturb the roost.

That sounds like the perfect hunt dale I just borrowed a double bull blind from a friend and I am going to set up in the morning in a field with a couple fake decoys. Did you stuff the hens yourself or buy your decoys?