Gut_Pile
Senior Member
Let's post em up guys...what is that one hunt that you always tell to your buddies or around the campfire at camp? That ONE that always puts a smile on your face? I'll start
My most memorable hunt happened just last year...and it ended in a miss.
It was opening day in Kentucky last season and my dad and I had worked two birds earlier that ended with hens running to them in the field and cutting them off.
At 10:30 we decided to give it one more go before we headed back for lunch. I gave a few loud cuts and a bird cut my off in a point of woods probably 200 yards away. I sat down real quick and a few seconds later I saw him coming. He came sprinting/strutting for about 100 yards gobbling a few times here and there. He got to around 75 yards and blew up into full strut and hung up. I stopped calling and he strutted for about 5 minutes. The sun was hitting him so perfect and that image is what I remember most.
After strutting for 5 minutes he couldn't handle it anymore, he had to come check things out and find the hen who was giving him the sweet talk. As he started walking my way a crow dove down right on top of him and started cawing......GAWWWWWWLLLLLLLL.....he cut loose. He went down in a dip in the field and my dad and I began giving him some soft yelps. I'm positioned for him to come up out of the dip 20 yards in line with the way he was coming
Next thing I know I see his head bobbing coming out of the dip directly to my right. I give him some soft calls and he blows up in strut. I CAN'T MOVE. Finally he turns away in strut and I make my move. He catches my movement and the jig is up. I absolutely rush the shot, I was running to get him as the shot went off, I had to of missed him by a mile. My dad was in a ditch the whole time and he couldn't see any of it. He comes up and I have a smile on my face as big as anything because of the show the bird had just put on for me. I wasn't mad at all that I missed. He thought I had killed him since I was so happy. It was an absolutely amazing hunt and the bird did everything you could ever ask for...I just didn't close the deal.
I hope to have another show put on for me like that again this year with hopefully a different result.
Can't wait to hear some more stories.
I added two pics of the setup so you can see the scenario. The pic is where the bird was when I missed him and he came from the far tree line
Second pic is the tree I was sitting on when I shot. The bird was right in front of the fallen branch. It looks far but it was 35 steps.
Side note....my dad killed a bird three days later off of the same tree....3rd pic
My most memorable hunt happened just last year...and it ended in a miss.
It was opening day in Kentucky last season and my dad and I had worked two birds earlier that ended with hens running to them in the field and cutting them off.
At 10:30 we decided to give it one more go before we headed back for lunch. I gave a few loud cuts and a bird cut my off in a point of woods probably 200 yards away. I sat down real quick and a few seconds later I saw him coming. He came sprinting/strutting for about 100 yards gobbling a few times here and there. He got to around 75 yards and blew up into full strut and hung up. I stopped calling and he strutted for about 5 minutes. The sun was hitting him so perfect and that image is what I remember most.
After strutting for 5 minutes he couldn't handle it anymore, he had to come check things out and find the hen who was giving him the sweet talk. As he started walking my way a crow dove down right on top of him and started cawing......GAWWWWWWLLLLLLLL.....he cut loose. He went down in a dip in the field and my dad and I began giving him some soft yelps. I'm positioned for him to come up out of the dip 20 yards in line with the way he was coming
Next thing I know I see his head bobbing coming out of the dip directly to my right. I give him some soft calls and he blows up in strut. I CAN'T MOVE. Finally he turns away in strut and I make my move. He catches my movement and the jig is up. I absolutely rush the shot, I was running to get him as the shot went off, I had to of missed him by a mile. My dad was in a ditch the whole time and he couldn't see any of it. He comes up and I have a smile on my face as big as anything because of the show the bird had just put on for me. I wasn't mad at all that I missed. He thought I had killed him since I was so happy. It was an absolutely amazing hunt and the bird did everything you could ever ask for...I just didn't close the deal.
I hope to have another show put on for me like that again this year with hopefully a different result.
Can't wait to hear some more stories.
I added two pics of the setup so you can see the scenario. The pic is where the bird was when I missed him and he came from the far tree line
Second pic is the tree I was sitting on when I shot. The bird was right in front of the fallen branch. It looks far but it was 35 steps.
Side note....my dad killed a bird three days later off of the same tree....3rd pic