I have been blessed by the leatherwall and this is just a situation born of good information from good people. The man I work for has a place in West Texas and I help maintain it as best as possible. He also lets me do some hunting out there from time to time. This past weekend was opening season for Spring Turkey and I headed out. Saturday brought on A LOT of bust from one set to the next. As a young man I am seeing I may be a little to impatient, but that is a different story. Finally late that afternoon in a drainage near the back end of the property, (I like to hunt there quite often, it's 2 miles in and few people even on neighbor lands go to the backside) I had my chance. The first tom was really impressive and followed a group of hens through an opening just in front of me. He stopped and stared at his girls and I drew only to watch my arrow sail over his back. Yip, I got way to excited and lifted my hand. He jumped several feet forward into the thicket and my arrow stuck in a cedar tree (cedar arrow in cedar tree, go figure), as he leaped another tom, not quite as big steps into my lane only a lot closer, without even much thought I grabbed another arrow found my focus drew and the arrow was gone before I had a chance to really think about what I was doing. A good hit only let the bird flop for a brief moment. The rest of the weekend went about the same as the prior. I would have some closing the gaps, but just could not get that last few yards into comfortable range or situation. Lots to learn and I now have a bigger appreciation for real turkey hunters as I believe that the Turkey has the eyes of a hawk. Thanks for reading along and my bow is my 51@27" Freeman longbow 66" amo and cedar arrows tipped with Zwickey 2 blade. The arrow that found the tree was not damaged nor the arrow that took the tom. This ranch is located near Sonora Texas and the ground is VERY rocky. See pics to follow.

-Bones

A little of the scenery. By the way he had a 9& 1/2" beard. Not bad for my first longbow Turkey.

-Bones

Congrats, nothing like taking a longbeard with a longbow. Know the feeling.Great job!

The view from the cabin at sunset. We took some time clearing this out so we could see over a short ledge and across the miles of open country to follow.

The short of all this is that I have been incredibly blessed with a job that allows me time, and location, to go and enjoy creation with my family. Again thanks for reading along.

-Bones

Well done young man. No turkey hunting here until May. Looked like a great weather day as well.

Good on ya

George the weather was rather warm, highs were in the upper 80's, but the wind was aggressive. 20 mph or there abouts' most of the weekend.

-Bones

Congratulations. On my bucket list! Lance

Nice! Congrats!

Very nice congratulations!

Now that is neat-O

congratulations

Congratulations on your hunt.

Way to go. Congratulations

You can be extremely proud of your accomplishment. Looks like rocks are the primary product raised on that place. :o)

Dry Bones,Great pictures and even better story... congratulations...

Congrats on a great accomplishment. I hunted them many years with the bow and just never got it done. Miss hunting them birds and the friendships I made calling for folks. Great story and pics!

NICE!

Very nice bird Cody. Although I am only about an hour north of you, our season does not open till March 31st. Congratulations on your Longbow Tom.

It's definitely odd the way Texas splits the season. North zone and South or?? I had to read the book a few times to realize Sutton county started earlier. 76aggie, hope you have a blessed spring season as well.

-Bones

I already said it but nice tom pal!

The more you put into our sport the more you get out of it

Very cool, congrats! Love hunting turkey with a bow. Gotta wait til May 7th here for general season.

Nice tom! With a shot like that, that tom wasn't going anywhere. Consider yourself a "real turkey hunter" as well. Congrats!

Way to get the job done. You done real good my friend. Congratulations. A Turkey with a longbow is quite an accomplishment.>>>----> ken

Congratulations! Nice Turkey! Nothing like killing one with a trad bow! Steve

Congrats, turkey's can test a mans patience. Well done,John

CONGRATS:::Nice turkey Bones

Well Done Bud!...4finger

Well alrighty then....congrats on the bird

Congratulations on a job well done, not a easy feat. I've come to realize I need a dumb bird, and they are around as long as I don't have a bow (weapon) in hand:)

You strike me as being a very humble and honest young man. Something that is hard to find in some but not all of youth today.

Good job on your hunt and you patience. Thanks for sharing. Ed

congrats! and nice tom... even nicer smile!

Longbow turkey...without a blind? The only turkey I ever shot was taken that way! Congrats!

Congratulations! Those rocks would be hard on spurs I bet. Looks like beautiful country.

Congrats on your first! Nice bird! I enjoyed your story and the pictures, thanks for sharing.

I dont know young brother,,,,i thought you were gona grow a bread from the thread tittle ; )

Impressive, congrats on a fine tom.

Scott, if I could grow a beard I may have already done it. I'm a little older then I appear, but have never had facial hair, or at least not enough to matter. HA. Thank you everyone, Good group here.

-Bones

Come on up the cold mountain will make it grow

BONES? Congratulations on Turkey with a bow! As You have discovered? Dey am right skittish critters! Hope that You recovered that first arrow and no harm? You gonna recycle the feathers from the wings? BLESSED BE!

Batman, you bet, I have them cut off and will soon be in the mail to Todd to get ground down. I killed one last season with my wheelie bow (don't tell anyone) and have been fletching with those feathers, so these will be done too. I think I will do the fan mount myself. i have done a few and they seem to get better with time, my way is slow and as work allows, but comes out okay. As for the rocks, yeah they seem to file the ends down. This Tom had 1 & 1/4" spurs

-Bones

Nicely done. Thanks for the story and photos.

Doesn't get any better than that...nice hunting and shooting!

Good job! Congratulations

Congrats to you!

Congrats to you sir !! Nice Bird !!

Bones, major congrats on your longbeard! That is just fricking awesome. Taking a mature gobbler with a longbow doesn't happen everyday. Good on you Mate:-)!!

Good job, man. That's quite an accomplishment.

Nothing better than when it all comes together with success, congrats!

Nice bird! Congrats!

And lots of people on here ask what’s a good head for turkey, I always say a sharp one (lol) nice job !!!!

Congratulations!

I dont know Cody we might have to start a Freeman bow body count thread here you keep this up

Hey I am all for that, but I may have a bit of an advantage. Lots of pigs need wood arrows. :D

-Bones

Great shot and congrats

Doesn't get much better than that!

That's awesome Cody :-) I'm very tickled to see you harvested a Turkey with one of my Longbows :-):-) I bet he never heard it coming. :-) JF

Well done young man, and yeah, the Hill Country grows lots of rocks! Tough on arrows!

Congrats young man. You certainly look like a real turkey hunter to me. And if you did that without a blind, that's even more impressive. Well done.

Nice ya neck tied em.

Good job, congratulations!

Great job...

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