Thanks!
Best of luck on the turkeys this spring, they can be tough buggers to get.
Sure is a lot of fun trying though. Kind of a cross between duck and pheasant
and deer hunting maybe.
I think my most memorable turkey hunt was the time I had yelped and gobbled
a tom with 3 hens from sunrise to 9:00am and was able to watch them working
toward me following a ridge about 200 yards across from the ridge I had my
blind and decoys set up on. They walked the ridge from the roost at river
below up and along side the ridge I was on until by 9:00am they were above
me and out of sight. The two ridges paralell each other.
It's very, very difficult to call a tom away from hens I know this, so when they made it above me and past me AND the gobble backs stopped, I was sure the game was over.
9:15 GOBBLE GOBBLE 15 yards behind my blind!
I about fell out of my chair.
Reached over and tugged the back portal cover open just a crack and there
he was in full strut behind a 15" dia. pine but I could see the head and neck
and about a good 9-10" beard.
I let go the portal cover and turned to pick up the bow from the bow holder
stake my left foot touched the box call on the ground it went SCREECH.
I heard leaves crunching and peaked out the portal, he was racin' back the
way he came in.
Never got a shot, but man what a hunt.
:-)
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