Finally tagged out in MI!!!
22#, 8.5" beard and 1" spurs
Got up at 0330 and got set up before light. Set out a tom decoy and a hen. Heard lots of gobbling early then it all just went silent.
Finally I saw movement to my left and four hens came running in. The ran right in and milled around the decoys for a long time.
After a time I caught movement on my right. Two hens came running out of the woods and made a big circle in the field then ran out of sight. The turkeys in the decoys didn't seem to affected by this and continued eating and milling around.
They finally started to move off to my right and started making a lot of noise. I leaned a bit to see around the window of my blind and there was a tom there strutting like he owned the place.
I watched him for a while and he never came out of strut. Finally I got him broadside and leveled him. Only ended up with one pellet through the breast.
After the shot all the birds hung around and just kept feeding and milling around. Seemed like it took them forever to move on. I didnt want to flush them as my buddy is stull hunting the area.
It seemes lime it too a long time to play out but shooting hours began at 0537 and I was done by 0650.
Its been just an awesome season.