Gaugler's Kansas Rio: Turkey Hunting

First morning out in Norton, Kansas hunting for Rios. It looks dark, but it's just heavy cloud cover and poor quality camera. I cut out about 15min worth of 6 toms strutting just out of range. Then we called and these two came running in.

Blasted it with the 10 gauge shotgun at only 25 yards. Tom weighed about 19lbs with 1 1/8" hooks but NO BEARD. We found a 1/2" stub of a beard that broke off by some means.

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• beardless
• tom
• rio
• kansas
• hunting
• norton
• shotgun
• hunt
• turkey

[outdoorsman4102]

what tipe of gun is it beside 10 gauge. Pump, semi, single, double, over under?

[BeanHillBuckHunter]

NEF single shot

[stanley4749]

where at in norton i live in norton and my bud just doubled up this morning was the miss in kansas in norton too looks like the terrain

[BeanHillBuckHunter]

that was walkin land north of norton about 15 min

[killemANDgrillem]

good work boys to bad about the beard though

[jstuntlocke]

ice.... that's probably what happeed to your beard. It froze in the winter and then most likely broke off, or it had beard rot. It depends on the color of the "nub". ...and I hear ya on the crappy camera. me 2.

[tattooedatrocity]

nice i love to hunt. keep it up

[nyturkeyduster]

NIve hunht guys, how was your season in NY? I tagged out on two real nice toms.

[pozatree]

Cool i live in kansas and just shot my first Tom today!