TheBenHoyle
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I had been hunting from the ground but I felt like there was too much undergrowth for me to maximize the range I could get with my shotgun. So I hiked back out to my truck and got my saddle, platform and climbing sticks. I was afraid that being up in a tree would make me more visible to turkeys, but I was picturing the turkeys coming out of the corn on the south and I would be ready to pick them off before they would spot me.
I got up the tree and settled in for about 4 hours before the end of legal shooting light. My hope was that the turkeys would come back to roost in the trees. I also felt it possible that they could come back before then, just to see what was going on.
Sadly, the turkeys who did show up early decided to skirt the woods to the north and then drift off to the west. I had a lot of time spent watching that flock of 7 toms leave me behind. I was a little disappointed, but I knew that there were hens around.
with about an hour twenty left of hunting time I looked up to my shot window at the edge of the corn and I see 2 turkeys flit by. In my head I would hear something before they appeared but they just appeared. I got my shotgun ready in case they slipped back into that opening and sure enough one stepped right out. I shot and with missed or didn't kill that bird. It flew up in a tree to my left and I shot again and it dropped like a brick.
I looked around to see if there were any other birds in the open, since I had 2 tags, but they were all gone. So I took the last shell out of my gun and lowered it to the ground with a thought of getting to that bird, just in case it wasn't as dead as I thought. I start my process of taking down everything from the tree and I realize there is a bird standing in that same opening by the corn, but I have no gun at hand.
I decide I just have to finish the process and I get to the ground and watch that turkey fly up in a tree next to the tree I shot my first turkey out of. I bend down, grab my shotgun, chamber a shell and drop that hen out of that tree.
I am beyond excited about how this worked out. I have spent so much time hunting wild turkey and coming up empty handed. I can't believe I was able to pull off a double. It is almost exactly like I drew it up in my head, although in my head I would have gotten both with just one shot.
On my hike out I was happy that I didn't shoot a couple of toms, I think that together these birds probably weighed 25 pounds and they were very awkward to carry through the standing corn. I think I have decided to not hunt these trees again until after the corn is picked. I don't know how I would have gotten a deer out of there.
I got up the tree and settled in for about 4 hours before the end of legal shooting light. My hope was that the turkeys would come back to roost in the trees. I also felt it possible that they could come back before then, just to see what was going on.
Sadly, the turkeys who did show up early decided to skirt the woods to the north and then drift off to the west. I had a lot of time spent watching that flock of 7 toms leave me behind. I was a little disappointed, but I knew that there were hens around.
with about an hour twenty left of hunting time I looked up to my shot window at the edge of the corn and I see 2 turkeys flit by. In my head I would hear something before they appeared but they just appeared. I got my shotgun ready in case they slipped back into that opening and sure enough one stepped right out. I shot and with missed or didn't kill that bird. It flew up in a tree to my left and I shot again and it dropped like a brick.
I looked around to see if there were any other birds in the open, since I had 2 tags, but they were all gone. So I took the last shell out of my gun and lowered it to the ground with a thought of getting to that bird, just in case it wasn't as dead as I thought. I start my process of taking down everything from the tree and I realize there is a bird standing in that same opening by the corn, but I have no gun at hand.
I decide I just have to finish the process and I get to the ground and watch that turkey fly up in a tree next to the tree I shot my first turkey out of. I bend down, grab my shotgun, chamber a shell and drop that hen out of that tree.
I am beyond excited about how this worked out. I have spent so much time hunting wild turkey and coming up empty handed. I can't believe I was able to pull off a double. It is almost exactly like I drew it up in my head, although in my head I would have gotten both with just one shot.
On my hike out I was happy that I didn't shoot a couple of toms, I think that together these birds probably weighed 25 pounds and they were very awkward to carry through the standing corn. I think I have decided to not hunt these trees again until after the corn is picked. I don't know how I would have gotten a deer out of there.
