mconway951
Active member
Took a friend of mine out this weekend to hunt turkeys for his first time. We sat through a cold rainy day on Sat with few birds spoted, got cold and wet...really wet. Sunday was complete opposite was a beautiful day had toms gobbling off the roost in every direction for miles up and down the river valley. Had a nice bird come in but couldnt seal the deal he couldnt get a shot with to much brush between him and the old weary bird and it bolted before even getting close to the decoys. Neever saw us but didnt like something.
Went to visit a farmer buddy of mine and he said he had seen some birds out back of the barn every day for last 2 weeks he took us anb showed us. Sure enough they were out in the fresh seeded oats. He explained that they crossed the hay field and the newly planted corn and tucked into the pasture every day. We made a plan and snuck out in front of them like clock work they showed up 5 hens in front and 3 toms in the rear. One of the hens was a silver phase bird with 2 black spots on her back and one copper color spot on her breast...ida given anything for that to be tom.
The toms struted around for a few minutes and i hit the mouth call to bring them outta strut and in a few seconds both tags were filled. Congrats to my buddy Joe on his first bird i think hes hooked on this turkey stuff
Went to visit a farmer buddy of mine and he said he had seen some birds out back of the barn every day for last 2 weeks he took us anb showed us. Sure enough they were out in the fresh seeded oats. He explained that they crossed the hay field and the newly planted corn and tucked into the pasture every day. We made a plan and snuck out in front of them like clock work they showed up 5 hens in front and 3 toms in the rear. One of the hens was a silver phase bird with 2 black spots on her back and one copper color spot on her breast...ida given anything for that to be tom.
The toms struted around for a few minutes and i hit the mouth call to bring them outta strut and in a few seconds both tags were filled. Congrats to my buddy Joe on his first bird i think hes hooked on this turkey stuff
