My Opener

I headed over to Sullivan county to hunt with my brother in law for opening morning. He knew where there were a few birds and that's where we headed early Wednesday morning. We walked in and got set up and realized we were in between birds and the one gobbling behind us we had to have walked right by on the way in. We set the camera up, faced it to the decoys, and got ready. We were hoping to double up, so we set the camera up that way and just hit record so we didn't have to worry about controlling it if multiple birds worked in. It wasn't 10 minutes after we set down that we both heard a stick break behind us and we knew it was that turkey. He was literally 10 feet behind us and he started putting. We are guessing because he saw the viewfinder of the camera. I could follow his putts and realized he was still working around us. My brother in law was able to see that it was a longbeard, so as soon as he went behind a tree to my left I shouldered the gun and hammered him at about 15 yards when he cleared the tree. It was 6:45 and I was done. My bird ended up having two beards, one 10" and one 3". My first multi-bearded turkey. He as 21 lbs 14 oz and had 3/4" spurs.
As I brought mine back to our spot the turkey in front of us was still gobbling. We got set back up and started calling to him. We could tell he was strutting back and forth but we still couldn't see him. After about twenty minutes he went silent and I knew to be on the lookout. I spotted his head coming through some brush and my brother in law got ready. He worked his way to us strutting a couple times and then stopped and stretched his neck out and moving his head side to side. He was about 45 yards out and my brother in law laid him out right there. His bird was 21 pounds, 1" spurs and an 11" beard.
Here are some pics of my bird:





And his bird:


We also had a group photo done of all the guys nearby who killed on opening morning. It was a pretty good one I'd say.