hunter922jr
Senior Member
The morning started off early yesterday with me and my company’s owner meeting up at 230 this morning at the shop to get up to the club and have time for the 25 minute four wheeler ride before the rain. We get to the blind right at 4 and we started looking at the radar and it looked like the storm was gonna be right at gobbling time and gonna last till 10. About 25 minutes after getting everything situated and our stuff in the correct places in the blind the light show of lightning began. The next 35 minutes consisted of rain as hard as you can imagine and me keeping the blind from flying to Kansas (which a few times I wasn’t sure if it was gonna happen). After that it was a sprinkle here or there and the storm was over by 830. We expected the birds to come in right after the storm, but that didn’t quite happen. We did a few calling sequences every hour for the next 3.5 hours with no avail. Until right before the clock struck noon we did a LONG sequence of cuts and hard yelps for 1.5-2 minutes. It wasn’t 2 minutes later they came practically running out of the hardwood bottom into the food plot and I chose the one I was gonna take and pulled the trigger at 15 yards. He started flopping and mike did a series of hard cuts to get the others to stop for a second and proceed flogging my bird that was all it took for #2 to hit the ground and we had just doubled on my first ever bird. Both birds had 10.25 inch beards and inch spurs. I cannot thank Mike enough for letting me get the chance to harvest my first bird and it definitely won’t be my last.
