Post by dantheblugrassman on Apr 21, 2007 15:33:54 GMT -5
The story,.
...zzzzzzzzzzz....zzzzzz...zzzzzzz "Hey wake up, it's already daylight"! Those were the first words we heard on the opening day of Indiana youth Turkey season..Somehow 2 alarm clocks failed to go off. How? I don't know!LOL! We didn't have time to get mad at the alarm clocks though, we needed to get out there in the woods! Fast! So were hustling around dressing up in camo, getting our calls and all the other equiptment together..Dad steps out on the porch looking into German Ridge-(Hoosier national forest) and owl hoots a could of times. GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE! They were hot!!!
Travis quickly gets the idea that he could have all of them turkeys to himself while me and Dad went off into other property that we had planned to hunt. So he immediatly hits the woods and we hit the road! Once we got the the property we was hunting on it is by now completly daylight/ Dad owl hoots a couple of times and we hear 1 or 2 way off...We make our way in their direction, once we get into the woods a little way we started hearing more and more gobbling..From different directions! Now it sounds like were just in the middle of 'em! In fact we spooked a turkey, not sure if it was a hen or not. Knowing that there were a bunch of turkeys there we decided to make our way to higher ground to try to get set-up and just wait one out.
After staying there for probably an hour with turkeys gobbling below us pretty constant..Wondering why none of them would make our way up the hill to us..We figured that they had got hung up at a small creek at the edge of a little field.. We got together and decided to circle around and maybe get on him down there by the field...The place we were hunting is now being logged so we used the roads to get around most of the time.
We got as close as we thought we could with out spooking him but it was so thick where we were we couldn't hardly see anything..Dad is yelping on the slate call and a Tom is answering every time! Dad instructs me to go over to a tree like 12 feet from the one we was sitting beside and try to get a good look at the field where we thought he was..I get on my hands and knees and as quietly as I could crawled to it while Dad yelped to cover up the noise I was making. Once I got there I still couldn't see the field very good. But We just couldn't get any closer!
I sit down and all Is quiet......Too quiet...Did we spook it.....we must have spooked it....it's over......Wait! A little bit of movement caught my eye to my right. A turkey! I couldn't tell if it was a tom or not so I positioned my gun and waited for it to come out into the open..When It did I seen that it was a silver/white hen! Just slowly making it's way along that little creek I was talking about. About the time the hen is in good view I spot movement in the field! The Tom following her! If all goes right she'll lead him right into my shooting lane!
I am watching the hen at the same time and I see her perk her head up like you always see 'em do when they see somehting they don't like..Putt..Putt..Putt..The Tom freezes..She did that a coulple of minutes and begins to slowly make her way forward..Cautiously I see the Tom to start her way too..All I need is a few more steps and I'll have a shot! Sure enough he crossed that little creek and poppes his head up where I have a clear 20 yard shot..BOOM! He drops but jumps right back up and begins to run! In desperation I shoot again! When I seen it keep running I thought it was over. But I jumped out of my seat and ran its way! I was happy to find that it only ran a short distance and folded up....whew! My hunt was over..Sorry for being so long...But I'm still pumped!LOL!
Thanks to my Dad who did the calling..And really helped out on killing this bird..
Well, my Turkey season is over..But it was a blast!
He weighed 24 lbs. Both left and right spurs were 28 mm. And he had an 11 and 1/2 beard..
...zzzzzzzzzzz....zzzzzz...zzzzzzz "Hey wake up, it's already daylight"! Those were the first words we heard on the opening day of Indiana youth Turkey season..Somehow 2 alarm clocks failed to go off. How? I don't know!LOL! We didn't have time to get mad at the alarm clocks though, we needed to get out there in the woods! Fast! So were hustling around dressing up in camo, getting our calls and all the other equiptment together..Dad steps out on the porch looking into German Ridge-(Hoosier national forest) and owl hoots a could of times. GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE! They were hot!!!
Travis quickly gets the idea that he could have all of them turkeys to himself while me and Dad went off into other property that we had planned to hunt. So he immediatly hits the woods and we hit the road! Once we got the the property we was hunting on it is by now completly daylight/ Dad owl hoots a couple of times and we hear 1 or 2 way off...We make our way in their direction, once we get into the woods a little way we started hearing more and more gobbling..From different directions! Now it sounds like were just in the middle of 'em! In fact we spooked a turkey, not sure if it was a hen or not. Knowing that there were a bunch of turkeys there we decided to make our way to higher ground to try to get set-up and just wait one out.
After staying there for probably an hour with turkeys gobbling below us pretty constant..Wondering why none of them would make our way up the hill to us..We figured that they had got hung up at a small creek at the edge of a little field.. We got together and decided to circle around and maybe get on him down there by the field...The place we were hunting is now being logged so we used the roads to get around most of the time.
We got as close as we thought we could with out spooking him but it was so thick where we were we couldn't hardly see anything..Dad is yelping on the slate call and a Tom is answering every time! Dad instructs me to go over to a tree like 12 feet from the one we was sitting beside and try to get a good look at the field where we thought he was..I get on my hands and knees and as quietly as I could crawled to it while Dad yelped to cover up the noise I was making. Once I got there I still couldn't see the field very good. But We just couldn't get any closer!
I sit down and all Is quiet......Too quiet...Did we spook it.....we must have spooked it....it's over......Wait! A little bit of movement caught my eye to my right. A turkey! I couldn't tell if it was a tom or not so I positioned my gun and waited for it to come out into the open..When It did I seen that it was a silver/white hen! Just slowly making it's way along that little creek I was talking about. About the time the hen is in good view I spot movement in the field! The Tom following her! If all goes right she'll lead him right into my shooting lane!
I am watching the hen at the same time and I see her perk her head up like you always see 'em do when they see somehting they don't like..Putt..Putt..Putt..The Tom freezes..She did that a coulple of minutes and begins to slowly make her way forward..Cautiously I see the Tom to start her way too..All I need is a few more steps and I'll have a shot! Sure enough he crossed that little creek and poppes his head up where I have a clear 20 yard shot..BOOM! He drops but jumps right back up and begins to run! In desperation I shoot again! When I seen it keep running I thought it was over. But I jumped out of my seat and ran its way! I was happy to find that it only ran a short distance and folded up....whew! My hunt was over..Sorry for being so long...But I'm still pumped!LOL!
Thanks to my Dad who did the calling..And really helped out on killing this bird..
Well, my Turkey season is over..But it was a blast!
He weighed 24 lbs. Both left and right spurs were 28 mm. And he had an 11 and 1/2 beard..
