Source: Star Tribune

Abigail Teschendorf just turned 12 and has been hunting turkeys for only two years.

But on Sunday, the Lino Lakes sixth-grader calmly bagged a record gobbler -- with a dead-on shot using a bow and arrow.

Hunting with her father, John, in Anoka County, Abigail shot a tom that strutted within 7 yards of their blind.

Using the weight and beard and spur lengths, the bird scored 81 points under the National Wild Turkey Federation's scoring system -- making it the highest-scoring Minnesota bird taken by a bow and arrow of the seven currently registered with the federation. And it's the eighth highest-scoring Minnesota gobbler overall in the NWTF's records, which includes about 200 Minnesota birds.

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