Post by Purebred Redneck on May 7, 2006 16:51:57 GMT -5
I just had the worst 2 minutes of turkey hunting in the history of turkey hunting.
The birds gobbled for a wopping 15 minutes this morning and then nothing. My partner said Fri morning the bird went up the hill at daylight so we set up for him today...and he went down the hill
So I went back to that spot at 12noon to try again.
I stood at the edge of the brushy field at noon and gave a turkey call to shockgobble (they wouldn't answer a crow call). No answer. I pulled a 90degree at the field and went to the spot 30 yards in the woods. No sooner than I sat down I heard turkeys walking comming from behind me (from the field). The birds were in the woods, I called them into the field, they heard me walking in the woods, and they went back in the woods again completing a circle.
Well I had nothing ready - I just sat down after putting the decoys out, the gun was on my lap, and I had no calls. And here comes the birds walking in behind me (still didn't gooble) and I can't move. One gets about 5 yards away and puts and runs off (may of been a hen). Oddly the other bird stays 10 yards behind me drumming looking at my jake decoy.
And then the enevitable happened. The decoy fell over, it fell the over --- don't ask me how it did that and he got all concerned and left.
Never did see either of them
I tell you what, the birds I'm hunting refuse to gooble past 615am.
I'm going on vacation wed and I'm going up north where they normally gobble until about 9am and then start again at 11am
The birds gobbled for a wopping 15 minutes this morning and then nothing. My partner said Fri morning the bird went up the hill at daylight so we set up for him today...and he went down the hill
So I went back to that spot at 12noon to try again.
I stood at the edge of the brushy field at noon and gave a turkey call to shockgobble (they wouldn't answer a crow call). No answer. I pulled a 90degree at the field and went to the spot 30 yards in the woods. No sooner than I sat down I heard turkeys walking comming from behind me (from the field). The birds were in the woods, I called them into the field, they heard me walking in the woods, and they went back in the woods again completing a circle.
Well I had nothing ready - I just sat down after putting the decoys out, the gun was on my lap, and I had no calls. And here comes the birds walking in behind me (still didn't gooble) and I can't move. One gets about 5 yards away and puts and runs off (may of been a hen). Oddly the other bird stays 10 yards behind me drumming looking at my jake decoy.
And then the enevitable happened. The decoy fell over, it fell the over --- don't ask me how it did that and he got all concerned and left.
Never did see either of them
I tell you what, the birds I'm hunting refuse to gooble past 615am.
I'm going on vacation wed and I'm going up north where they normally gobble until about 9am and then start again at 11am