 All right, good morning guys hunt number three of the california 21 2021 turkey season spring turkey I'm going solo today As you've seen from the last hunt. We had a lot of close opportunities and some good stocks but we didn't end up tagging one out that day, but We got them patterned and that's the key. I really feel like I'm gonna get one this morning Getting here. I might basically get out there where I need to be about seven o'clock shoot time six three So a little bit later than I wanted Ain't gonna lie boys It's a little harder for me to get up in the morning for turkey hunt than it is for duck And I can pop out of bed for ducks. I love it turkeys a blast whatever's in seasons fun to hunt But it's a little bit different motivation for me, but nonetheless. I'm out here Want to get one really bad with my bow. I'm shooting my bow today I've got we've got this Tom patterned and I think today is gonna be the day that I'm gonna get him So if he does what he's been doing, I should be able to get him. I'm gonna be set up I know he won't he's not usually at the spot This early so that's why I wasn't too worried about getting here a little bit later But anyways got my bow got my face mask got my stuff. I will say this I'm not gonna call. I'm not gonna put a decoy out because the last couple days of hunting beans that were only five days deep into this season They're super tight-lipped. They're going a little bit, but they're not fired up and they're not responding to calls hardly and They're very very spooked So like that's why I said I want to get set up in the spot. Just be really quiet really still I'm not gonna call don't want to draw attention. Just want to come to that spot. He's been come to And then just try to get a shot should be like a 30-yard shot With my bow and as always guys don't forget to subscribe Two times fighting That was like an hour-long stock one phrase stinking hands You guys see that clip they had me pinned for Five-plus minutes. So as you see in that footage, I honestly thought they were stuck together somehow I knew it was two toms and they were fighting But it was like no matter how they would fall or move It was like they didn't look like to me from that distance that they were separating I'm soaking wet. Let me take this hoodie off So I thought they're gonna fight to the death and I thought or they were stuck together And I thought well, it's just like to me like two bull elk when two bull elk are fighting But it doesn't you can run in on them. They don't even care. They're they're out of it So I thought hey, I might as well get a shot because I seen the hens and they were way over a Way away from those two toms. So I just booked it. I was basically running It dips down like this. I don't know how in the world. They didn't see me I'm like walking fast almost running and all of a sudden I like slam the brakes and I see a head do this and I'm like Okay, because when I came out of the ridge just a little bit. I didn't see the two toms I mean it was that fast. I was out there within one minute. So I was like, oh, no, that might be them coming right at me So I got down on one knee knocked an arrow. I peaked up and it was hands I don't know how they didn't see me or hear me. I take off a book it I basically run to my left because now I see the Tom coming and he's like coming towards him I go to the left they're down in this little goalie and They pinned me against that tree like you seen. I was there for five minutes I'm like, you got to be kidding me because my goal was to get way ahead of that Tom Because I knew he'd want to go up in those trees. I don't know why I just I felt like that's what he was gonna do He was kind of walking that way too. So that helped me like he's gonna go up there and watch But I had enough blockage of trees and woodline. He would never see me. So I go by that tree I'm gonna work my way the hens come right at me And they come within 20 yards four of them and they're sitting their feet in and I'm in the shadows I'm not up against the tree But I'm in the shadow of this big tree My leg was hurting so bad From I was kind of in a weird position. They caught me in a weird position. I just froze And I'm just sitting there like you got to be kidding me and now I got my face mask on everything And now you see that Tom working his way Right where I was going I'm like, why is he not coming towards the hands? Well, they keep looking. They think they see something I mean, they're looking right at me and they just keep feeding they feeding right towards me They come within 20 yards and they kind of turn to the right a little bit nonchalantly walk off And I'm like oh reposition my leg so they kind of go up the hill and go in the brush I'm like, I just got to get aggressive. I run down low Run around the side get to this tree and all of a sudden this Tom with a beard about looks like about 10 inches long About dragging the ground. He was the one that beat up the other one and the other one had a really nice beard, too And he was feeling sorry for himself. He stayed out there. I end up seeing him He just kind of hunkered down wasn't moving much. I don't know if he was hurt This one was strutting his stuff up the hill and my great right the tree that I was going to before the Stumb hands caught me. He walked right by it while like 10 yards. I'm just like you got me kidding me So he goes up in there. He acts a little suspicious. He goes up with the hens. I'm like, okay I go around get to this next tree and then I see this big fat redhead and I can't save all this on GoPro because if I do It's gonna go BBB And I didn't have that sound turned off Sorry to keep telling about this story keeps go at it. Okay, so he's 45 yards now. I'm 45 yards from the Tom Big ol redhead a big old beard. I mean just massive bird, but he's in so much brush He's like it's that short stuff about waist high and he's standing right in it I have no shot like zero and he like looks looks and then he kind of barely goes over the hill And I'm like I'm at the top of this ridge. I'm like there looks like they would cross right there I don't know this I'm just guessing and it goes it dips down and up across its 85 yards And I still at the top I could have walked all the way the bomb green grass would have been really quiet And I'm like they're probably not gonna do that then like no I'm gonna go to the bottom in case they cross I'm gonna be like 30 yards from whatever comes across to your Yep, they came across and nope. I did not walk to the bottom So he was 85 yards for me big old Tom massive If I would have walked down the bomb human and never seen me I would have had a 20 to 30 yard shot Bo honey, I could have killed that bird twice today if I had a shotgun I called this I knew it was gonna happen but you're you're gonna always want to revert back to rifle or shotgun and say If I would have had this I could have killed that bird, but that's the challenge of it Colton had a couple opportunities on the last video as you seen the hunt number two, but yet a bow and I Love the challenge of it It's mind games man crazy like I said I got within 45 yards of them and that's stalking guys Hunting not killing it just to throw it out there. We have a podcast So we've had some really amazing guys on the podcast from military to law enforcement to Turkey professional hunters to duck masters all that good stuff. So check it out the nvm show. It's on YouTube Spotify Stitcher iTunes all that good stuff time is over the essence. I gotta get back ten o'clock. Hope you guys enjoyed this video Titus Zero Turkey three they're putting a whooping on me. We'll see you guys on the next one