Post by Purebred Redneck on Apr 21, 2010 20:55:25 GMT -5
It's not the biggest one (10" thin beard and 22 3/4 lbs), but I don't care. Public land gobblers are hard to come by especially in textbook endings, so I'll take it. I'm going to be bored out of my mind the next 4 days with nothing to do.
A nice calm sun shiney morning and to my suprise I didn't hear a single gobble until 10am. Actually, I'm not surpised because every bird on this place has been screwed with hard the last few days. So nothing is going on for me so I decided to meet up with dad who also drew this lottery hunt.
We decided to go back to where I deer hunt because it's as likely a spot as any other with nothing gobbling. As soon as we get there, we hear a bird gobble within maybe 150 yards. We got the decoy out and I was walking to the tree I wanted to sit by. As I was walking, another bird not 50 yards away in the brush heard me and gave out a gobble. Imediatly after checking that I didn't wet myself, I got to the nearest tree I could find.
One call and he was right there on top of me at 25 yards and I could hear him strutting. The only thing I could see was his red head and there was some small weeds/saplings inbetween us. He stood still not wanting to move and I couldn't tell if he was still strutting, getting nervous, or just looking around. I didn't want to let him walk because he would have came up behind and to the right of dad who was covering the low side --- not a good situation. I'd rather miss than not shoot at all.
All I saw was that red head turn broadside through the brush, I shot, he collapsed, I jumped up, and sprinted over there as fast as I could not knowing how much of the pattern made it through.
No need though, because he got hit about 15 times in the head with no hits to his body since I aimed square at his head.
It doesn't happen often, but that's what it's all about. ;D
A nice calm sun shiney morning and to my suprise I didn't hear a single gobble until 10am. Actually, I'm not surpised because every bird on this place has been screwed with hard the last few days. So nothing is going on for me so I decided to meet up with dad who also drew this lottery hunt.
We decided to go back to where I deer hunt because it's as likely a spot as any other with nothing gobbling. As soon as we get there, we hear a bird gobble within maybe 150 yards. We got the decoy out and I was walking to the tree I wanted to sit by. As I was walking, another bird not 50 yards away in the brush heard me and gave out a gobble. Imediatly after checking that I didn't wet myself, I got to the nearest tree I could find.
One call and he was right there on top of me at 25 yards and I could hear him strutting. The only thing I could see was his red head and there was some small weeds/saplings inbetween us. He stood still not wanting to move and I couldn't tell if he was still strutting, getting nervous, or just looking around. I didn't want to let him walk because he would have came up behind and to the right of dad who was covering the low side --- not a good situation. I'd rather miss than not shoot at all.
All I saw was that red head turn broadside through the brush, I shot, he collapsed, I jumped up, and sprinted over there as fast as I could not knowing how much of the pattern made it through.
No need though, because he got hit about 15 times in the head with no hits to his body since I aimed square at his head.
It doesn't happen often, but that's what it's all about. ;D