Tagged out this morning, bearded hen [VIDEO]

I was lucky enough to fill my second tag this morning at 6:30am. I watched a hen make her way across the field about 500 yards and come in to my decoys. When she got closer I noticed the beard. She was quite vocal and pecked my feeding and submissive hen decoys for a while. She made her way down into the valley behind me and immediately started to make some loud clucks and yelps. Then I heard a bunch of aggressive gobbling shuffling around. About 20 minutes later she made her way back into my decoys, this time leading on a tom. The tom beat up the jake decoy and started mating the submissive hen decoy until lights out. I took the shot at that moment because while he was attempting to mate, the bearded hen got out of there real quick. I thought maybe something spooked her so that prompted me to take the shot right then. After reviewing the footage I noticed another tom emerge from the bush about 300 yards away. As soon as he displayed his fan the hen went running.

22.28 lbs
1.25" spurs
2" beard (rot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-i-mAnZ5wM

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Hey, very nice video...... Thanks for sharing it.... That hen sure had a big beard.....
Congrats on the hunt.

Fantastic footage. Congratulations.

congratulations - video was great!

Great vid, congrats on the bird. Cant eat the beard anyways.

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Originally Posted by taketheshot

I was lucky enough to fill my second tag this morning at 6:30am. I watched a hen make her way across the field about 500 yards and come in to my decoys. When she got closer I noticed the beard. She was quite vocal and pecked my feeding and submissive hen decoys for a while. She made her way down into the valley behind me and immediately started to make some loud clucks and yelps. Then I heard a bunch of aggressive gobbling shuffling around. About 20 minutes later she made her way back into my decoys, this time leading on a tom. The tom beat up the jake decoy and started mating the submissive hen decoy until lights out. I took the shot at that moment because while he was attempting to mate, the bearded hen got out of there real quick. I thought maybe something spooked her so that prompted me to take the shot right then. After reviewing the footage I noticed another tom emerge from the bush about 300 yards away. As soon as he displayed his fan the hen went running.

22.28 lbs
1.25" spurs
2" beard (rot)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-i-mAnZ5wM

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Congratulations! Great bird & video. Thanks for sharing
Was that you calling? What do you use ? It sounds very realistic
I understand if you don't want to disclose

Some of it is me, most of it is the hen.

I use the Woodhaven cherry classic crystal.

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(this is the same bird from the video)

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Originally Posted by mikedinoro

Congratulations! Great bird & video. Thanks for sharing
Was that you calling? What do you use ? It sounds very realistic
I understand if you don't want to disclose

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Congrats.....glad you did not hit your camera...lol.

Might be the best kill shot footage I have seen. I think I see the wad go by, but did not slow it down to confirm. Amazing video quality and a great hunt overall. Congrats on both.

Your videos are fantastic, I love the camera setup! Congrats on your second tom!