Post by gobblerstopper on Apr 25, 2008 12:09:53 GMT -5
After this morning, I am now done filling all the tags that I have, but I still have 7 days off of work coming up before season goes out. 
I got to my spot in Kentucky and got out of the truck at 5:08. This bird was all ready gobbling. From hunting a bird last spring that was roosted in the same area as this one, I knew that I really needed to jump in the truck and get on the other side of him, but I didn't. Where he was roosted, it was impossible to get to where he would work without him seeing me.
Instead, I worked my way in as close as I could get and did a couple of "flydowns" with my hat and clucked a couple of times. He didn't give me a response, but I knew that he had heard me. I sat tight and let him get on the ground and move away from me. When he was over the ridge, I climbed up the highwall that he had been on the edge of and got just on the other side of where he was roosted. I gave out a couple of clucks and two or three yelps and he answered. After that I just scratched the leaves.
Didn't take long before he was back where he had felt safe all night looking for that hen that had just hollered at him. All said and done at 6:40.
8 1/2" beard, 7/8" spurs and 18 1/2" pounds....
Three trips to the woods with this call. Five gobblers in range and four dead....
I got to my spot in Kentucky and got out of the truck at 5:08. This bird was all ready gobbling. From hunting a bird last spring that was roosted in the same area as this one, I knew that I really needed to jump in the truck and get on the other side of him, but I didn't. Where he was roosted, it was impossible to get to where he would work without him seeing me.
Instead, I worked my way in as close as I could get and did a couple of "flydowns" with my hat and clucked a couple of times. He didn't give me a response, but I knew that he had heard me. I sat tight and let him get on the ground and move away from me. When he was over the ridge, I climbed up the highwall that he had been on the edge of and got just on the other side of where he was roosted. I gave out a couple of clucks and two or three yelps and he answered. After that I just scratched the leaves.
Didn't take long before he was back where he had felt safe all night looking for that hen that had just hollered at him. All said and done at 6:40.
8 1/2" beard, 7/8" spurs and 18 1/2" pounds....
Three trips to the woods with this call. Five gobblers in range and four dead....
