Post by Greenedog on May 7, 2009 19:33:08 GMT -5
My brother, Monty, and me have hunted HARD this spring. This was day 11 for me, and day 5 for Monty chasing long beards. We've been out there rain or shine and have seen tons of birds, they just would not cooperate; hanging up just out of range or completely ignoring decoys and calls all together. Yesterday we had a dozen birds in the field right in front of us and at least 5 were gobblers. We watched these birds for 2 hours and they stayed just of range the whole time. This is Monty's first season turkey hunting and I thought he had given up after all the frustration we've had. But, as he was leaving yesterday, he said "If you don't hear from me tonight, I'll be here in the morning". 
This morning we setup with the ground blind in a different part of the field. Monty had been trying for a bow kill, but the gloves were off now, scatter gun time! ;D We had birds gobbling off the roost a couple hundred yards off to our left and were able to call them in, but it was the same old story; they hung up at around a 100 yards. After much strutting and gobbling, a pretty lady came by and took the boys away. Those were a couple nice toms. Not long after they leave, Monty sees birds to our right. It looks like 2 more toms. They come feeding along the field edge and it's finally time to throw some lead! We had talked about how to handle the shooting before, it would be 1-2-SHOOT, well, I count off 1-2 and at 2 I squeeze!(Sorry Monty! ;D ;D) Monty shot half a second later, but his bird had jumped and he missed, he was able shoot again and got it on the second shot. We filmed the hunt, but the footage isn't that great because all you could see were a couple heads peeking over the mustard weed, we actually had to watch it a couple times to even see the head I was shooting at. A couple weeks ago I might have been embarrassed over these birds, but right now you've never seen 2 more happier guys over a couple little jakes. ;D
This morning we setup with the ground blind in a different part of the field. Monty had been trying for a bow kill, but the gloves were off now, scatter gun time! ;D We had birds gobbling off the roost a couple hundred yards off to our left and were able to call them in, but it was the same old story; they hung up at around a 100 yards. After much strutting and gobbling, a pretty lady came by and took the boys away. Those were a couple nice toms. Not long after they leave, Monty sees birds to our right. It looks like 2 more toms. They come feeding along the field edge and it's finally time to throw some lead! We had talked about how to handle the shooting before, it would be 1-2-SHOOT, well, I count off 1-2 and at 2 I squeeze!(Sorry Monty! ;D ;D) Monty shot half a second later, but his bird had jumped and he missed, he was able shoot again and got it on the second shot. We filmed the hunt, but the footage isn't that great because all you could see were a couple heads peeking over the mustard weed, we actually had to watch it a couple times to even see the head I was shooting at. A couple weeks ago I might have been embarrassed over these birds, but right now you've never seen 2 more happier guys over a couple little jakes. ;D
