Dad & I were drawn for a rare spring turkey hunt.
We arrived down south and went to my camper at the lease I have next to a refuge. We will be commuting to and from the refuge we are hunting.
Got to scout for a little while yesterday evening. Found several turkeys roosted in a tree and dropped a pin. Looked like all Tom’s.
Saw a hen and several Nilgai and deer during our evening scout.
Got up at 5:25am with a lot of optimism. Arrived at empty parking lot and got bikes, decoys, gear and shot guns loaded and headed towards where we encountered those roosted turkeys.
Biking in I start hearing limps crack, then had numerous turkeys flying over our heads!!!! We were literally riding past a whole mess of turkeys rooster on a powerline! I stopped to show dad, several birds were still sitting on the line. We filmed a portion of them. Kept on biking, MORE turkeys flew over us!
Decided to still head to our planned set up.
Got decoys set, chairs set, and shotguns loaded.
I could hear distant gobbles from the direction we biked in from, likely the birds we busted off thier roost.
Then I heard wings flapping, other turkeys were dropping down.
Dad hit the crow call several times a day break with no response. Not alot of crows down in the valley, I guess.
I start calling and yelling and a good tom slips in on us silently. We watched him strut for 20 minutes 15yards from the decoy. He we across the fence o ln private though! He lost interest and kept moving. Then a Jake came down the road into the set up, with another Tom. That Tom was also across the fence and didn’t hang around long as I think he spotted us.
The Jake hung around for an hour. And then I caught a full tail fan coming from the east down the road, right towards us…..
We arrived down south and went to my camper at the lease I have next to a refuge. We will be commuting to and from the refuge we are hunting.
Got to scout for a little while yesterday evening. Found several turkeys roosted in a tree and dropped a pin. Looked like all Tom’s.
Saw a hen and several Nilgai and deer during our evening scout.
Got up at 5:25am with a lot of optimism. Arrived at empty parking lot and got bikes, decoys, gear and shot guns loaded and headed towards where we encountered those roosted turkeys.
Biking in I start hearing limps crack, then had numerous turkeys flying over our heads!!!! We were literally riding past a whole mess of turkeys rooster on a powerline! I stopped to show dad, several birds were still sitting on the line. We filmed a portion of them. Kept on biking, MORE turkeys flew over us!
Decided to still head to our planned set up.
Got decoys set, chairs set, and shotguns loaded.
I could hear distant gobbles from the direction we biked in from, likely the birds we busted off thier roost.
Then I heard wings flapping, other turkeys were dropping down.
Dad hit the crow call several times a day break with no response. Not alot of crows down in the valley, I guess.
I start calling and yelling and a good tom slips in on us silently. We watched him strut for 20 minutes 15yards from the decoy. He we across the fence o ln private though! He lost interest and kept moving. Then a Jake came down the road into the set up, with another Tom. That Tom was also across the fence and didn’t hang around long as I think he spotted us.
The Jake hung around for an hour. And then I caught a full tail fan coming from the east down the road, right towards us…..
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