2026 Turkey harvest pics

[Bill V]

Congrats guys! Two down for me. Testing the new Iron Will Turkey Broadheads.

 

[rodney482]

Indiana
HR .410 single shot
Fox Trot 383 9.5x10
Slate call
Dave Smith decoys

 

[Okie-hunter]

Yall been hard on em this year! Congrats to everyone having success!
Here’s my biggest spurred Rio to date. 1 3/8” spurs, 10” beard, & 22 pounds!
Oklahoma tag is filled now on to Kansas after I heal up from a minor surgery!

 

[Nickziegler]

My 5 year old killed her first bird today. Couldn't be more proud of her. She missed a nice tom at 12 yards 20 minutes prior to this Jake. It was really cool that she kept reminding me how close we came to getting that tom and how cool it was he came in gobbling. I didnt have a decoy out on the plot because last year they were hesitant to commit to one on it so after the miss I set a decoy and told her we would give it another hour. 20 minutes later this Jake shows and I gave her the green light for a redemption bird. Will never be a day I forget.

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[mtbowhntr]

4-18 My cousin called in two jakes and I was able to kill my first turkey. If you forget your turkey calls, turns out elk calls sort of work too lol.

 

[Broomd]

My 5 year old killed her first bird today. Couldn't be more proud of her. She missed a nice tom at 12 yards 20 minutes prior to this Jake. It was really cool that she kept reminding me how close we came to getting that tom and how cool it was he came in gobbling. I didnt have a decoy out on the plot because last year they were hesitant to commit to one on it so after the miss I set a decoy and told her we would give it another hour. 20 minutes later this Jake shows and I gave her the green light for a redemption bird. Will never be a day I forget.

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Wow, that's great stuff.

 

[Rogue Bay]

Yall been hard on em this year! Congrats to everyone having success!
Here’s my biggest spurred Rio to date. 1 3/8” spurs, 10” beard, & 22 pounds!
Oklahoma tag is filled now on to Kansas after I heal up from a minor surgery!
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Those are some hooks! I’ve not seen spurs like that on the Rios out here in Oregon. Congrats on a great bird!

 

[Nushagak]

Second day of the season, gusting 35mph but sunny and warm. Got to our spot mid day, let out one loud yelp on the slate, and had two toms and a hen come running in no more than 10 minutes later. 28 gauge at 20 yards. No TSS, fan, or decoys required.

 

[Old-Cat]

A grizzled old mountain monarch: his snood was missing, beak was broken, pads on his feet were worn. He survived maybe seven or eight years, I think it’s pretty difficult to know for sure, of assault by predators and humans in a national forest in upstate SC. He controlled that mountain, hen everywhere, but not another gobbling turkey.

I hunted the bird for seven days. I first heard him while hunting in Georgia on a mountain across a river on the 16th. Every day, except Sunday, I chased him. He would be on one mountain and I was on the other. He gobbled at my call and then go in the opposite direction. He whooped me pretty consistently until yesterday morning.

I finally had to walk an hour and 30+ minutes up a mountain, along a ridge to get to a knob with a chance of being above him if he gobbled. Sure enough he hammered early about 900 yards below me. I dropped down a stupid steep finger about 700 yard to the bench on which I killed him.

He did the same thing he had done for days. He would answer my call, but take off the opposite direction after he hit the ground. Yesterday morning I just stayed put and soft called for about 35 minutes, little clucks and like one and a half note yelps, curiosity got the best of him.

It was the most satisfying hunt of my life. I sat on the mountain thanking Jesus for about 15 minutes before I even looked at the bird. It just sat in front of me piled up next to a log.
I could see it was gray and I knew it was old, but I had no idea how old and grizzled it really was.

Henry 20 gauge
Trumpet call
Favor of the King.

 

[cnelk]

Today - Wyoming

 

[Taudisio]

Those are some hooks! I’ve not seen spurs like that on the Rios out here in Oregon. Congrats on a great bird!

Oregon bird from 2021

 

[Rogue Bay]

That’s a dandy! I keep hoping one of these times the bird I lean over to pick up is going to have some big hooks like that. My biggest Rio is 7/8”. We’ve killed a couple longbeards that had no spurs at all. Just the scale like a hen leg. And they were both sizable birds.

 

[Taudisio]

That’s a dandy! I keep hoping one of these times the bird I lean over to pick up is going to have some big hooks like that. My biggest Rio is 7/8”. We’ve killed a couple longbeards that had no spurs at all. Just the scale like a hen leg. And they were both sizable birds.

I have killed one like that too. Tripped me out. That photo I shared was a private property bird that was at least 5 years old, my wife shot him when she was pregnant. We just have a lot of predators and hiding spots for them. It doesn’t help the gobblers when they play “marco, polo” in the jungle.

 

[dr.mooseknuckles]

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A grizzled old mountain monarch: his snood was missing, beak was broken, pads on his feet were worn. He survived maybe seven or eight years, I think it’s pretty difficult to know for sure, of assault by predators and humans in a national forest in upstate SC. He controlled that mountain, hen everywhere, but not another gobbling turkey.

I hunted the bird for seven days. I first heard him while hunting in Georgia on a mountain across a river on the 16th. Every day, except Sunday, I chased him. He would be on one mountain and I was on the other. He gobbled at my call and then go in the opposite direction. He whooped me pretty consistently until yesterday morning.

I finally had to walk an hour and 30+ minutes up a mountain, along a ridge to get to a knob with a chance of being above him if he gobbled. Sure enough he hammered early about 900 yards below me. I dropped down a stupid steep finger about 700 yard to the bench on which I killed him.

He did the same thing he had done for days. He would answer my call, but take off the opposite direction after he hit the ground. Yesterday morning I just stayed put and soft called for about 35 minutes, little clucks and like one and a half note yelps, curiosity got the best of him.

It was the most satisfying hunt of my life. I sat on the mountain thanking Jesus for about 15 minutes before I even looked at the bird. It just sat in front of me piled up next to a log.
I could see it was gray and I knew it was old, but I had no idea how old and grizzled it really was.

Henry 20 gauge
Trumpet call
Favor of the King.

That's awesome. Just recently drove through some of that area during Spring Break for the kids. It got me interested in checking some of that out.

 

[jdmaxwell]

Opening morning South Dakota.
4 in snow and 19 degrees..

 

[Ultracarry]

Took 6 years to draw my AZ turkey tag- first ever hunt for turkey also.
I feel like I should have let him go so I could keep hunting - took 10 minutes once I set my decoy up and called .
Found this cool deadhead also .

 

[TNHighlands]

Took 6 years to draw my AZ turkey tag- first ever hunt for turkey also.
I feel like I should have let him go so I could keep hunting - took 10 minutes once I set my decoy up and called .
Found this cool deadhead also .

Dude. What a day!