Post by lawrencecountyhunter on Apr 26, 2020 17:53:23 GMT -5
I was making some crawlspace doors today, and like I guessed they would some turkeys started gobbling around me as the rain slacked off this afternoon. I walked down the road a ways and cut off into the woods, stopping and calling about every 50 yards. At around the 4th or 5th stop, one gobbled a reply up the hill on the neighbors property.
I ran up a short way to set up at the base of a big hickory tree, called once, and he gobbled back. It took him about 10 minutes to make his way down to me, and gobbled probably 5 or 6 times during that span. When he emerged out of the brush at about 25 yards he was in full strut. There was a dead limb with several branches between us, so I had to let him move about 5 yards before I could shoot.
This is my second turkey, first tom, and first animal taken on my new land. He had an 11.5" beard, a small second beard, and 1.25" spurs.
I ran up a short way to set up at the base of a big hickory tree, called once, and he gobbled back. It took him about 10 minutes to make his way down to me, and gobbled probably 5 or 6 times during that span. When he emerged out of the brush at about 25 yards he was in full strut. There was a dead limb with several branches between us, so I had to let him move about 5 yards before I could shoot.
This is my second turkey, first tom, and first animal taken on my new land. He had an 11.5" beard, a small second beard, and 1.25" spurs.
