A miss and success "TURKEY"
Managed a new property just before archery deer closed and 7 new properties a few weeks ago to hunt turkey....
First spot we hit up I scouted once and then had the landowner keeping an eye on movement and reporting back to me.
We got in and setup with about 10 mins of dark left before legal shooting.
Around 6 am I figure 4-5 birds started sounding off quite far from us so opted to move closer to the back corner of the property almost setting up within 30 yrds of another hunter hunting the next door property. So back to the opposite corner we go roughly 125 yrds away from him facing the field I have.
I placed 1 decoy out in the filed 20 yrds away and we picked our trees and began our wait.
Birds went silent as soon as they hit the ground and heard nothing until 7:15 and our first bird was on its way. Had a jake 10 yrds from me but the guy with me couldn't get the shot and the bird seen something it didn't like so off it went until it seen my decoy.
Came in doing the whole routine for us but kept just outside his comfort zone.
Not 5 mins after that had more gobbling heading our way, and with a little calling broke 2 toms away from a hen and danced all the way into 22 yrds showing off to the decoy.
I waited for him to give the go ahead when he was ready and our shots rang out, BUT only 1 bird hit the dirt.
Managed to drop my bird and he MISSED.......
After tagging and getting the gear loaded we headed for another spot and had one ****ed off hen come into us and that was it for there.
Spot #3 we had 2 hens pop out in front of us as we were on our way in.
We got to where I wanted to set up and I started with the calling and nothing for around 2 hrs so opted to move to another location on the property.
After a good hr+ I finally got a gobble and the tom was on his way only to spot my friend shaking BAD from excitement when it hit 80 yrds and he turned tail and got out of there. As quick as he took off another bird started up and was on its way and #2 tom pegged him AGAIN at around 70 yrds and that was it for our day.....
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