jbarron
BANNED
Well, I went down to my little piece of heaven and expectations were pretty low for the opener. I got to my favorite place to owl hoot, let her rip, and nothing. I'm thinking well that figures...
I decide to head down to a small plot where I'd seen some fresh sign a couple of weeks ago. Set up about 20 yards off the field and hear a hen on the roost. Then I start hearing a gobbler several hundred yards away near another plot. I move that way without flushing anything and setup.
He's gobbling real good. But when he flies down he goes the opposite way up towards the planted pines (that almost never happens). I hear a couple of hens fly down. The turkey is gobbling good and answers me but will not come to me. He stays in the pines gobbling like crazy for some time. After he moves off, I move up to where he just left and setup.
I pull out my dads old box call and start cutting. The hens have a conniption and come in trying to find me. After they finally move off, I yelp and he answers me. About 15 minutes later, I catch him slipping through looking for me. He new exactly where the call had come from but I was hid well. I take the shot at about 40 yards. It's been a long time since I've heard a bird gobble any better than this one did today.
I decide to head down to a small plot where I'd seen some fresh sign a couple of weeks ago. Set up about 20 yards off the field and hear a hen on the roost. Then I start hearing a gobbler several hundred yards away near another plot. I move that way without flushing anything and setup.
He's gobbling real good. But when he flies down he goes the opposite way up towards the planted pines (that almost never happens). I hear a couple of hens fly down. The turkey is gobbling good and answers me but will not come to me. He stays in the pines gobbling like crazy for some time. After he moves off, I move up to where he just left and setup.
I pull out my dads old box call and start cutting. The hens have a conniption and come in trying to find me. After they finally move off, I yelp and he answers me. About 15 minutes later, I catch him slipping through looking for me. He new exactly where the call had come from but I was hid well. I take the shot at about 40 yards. It's been a long time since I've heard a bird gobble any better than this one did today.