Post by Sleazy E on May 8, 2007 16:17:11 GMT -5
Well did not sleep at all last night ( working nights makes sleeping hard ) went out his morning..... had 4 or 5 gobbling on the roost about 150 yards from me...... man were they fired up.... the hit the ground and a couple of them kept firing off and moving tword me.....
About half an hour later the two birds got queit but the last they gobbled I knew they were close.....Catch movement out of the corner of my eye and moving right along the edge of the field (about 7 yards in front of me) was the same jake I have seen several times this year..... He is lazily making his way to my decoys (still out of my shooting lane) when all of a sudden..... BOOM a shotgun goes off about 75 yards away from me...... Appeantly the guy on the next property over (we share an old logging lane) showed up late (he told me this) and heard the birds going off and heard me calling.... so he set up on the edge of his property watching the lane (where the birds moved through to the field) and shot at the Tom that was with the Jake...... He missed of course.... he told me he let the jake walk by so that way "maybe we could get a double"
So thats it .... next year I am hunting the far back corner away from everyone. either that or I am buying ym own property so I can ahve a place all to myself.
About half an hour later the two birds got queit but the last they gobbled I knew they were close.....Catch movement out of the corner of my eye and moving right along the edge of the field (about 7 yards in front of me) was the same jake I have seen several times this year..... He is lazily making his way to my decoys (still out of my shooting lane) when all of a sudden..... BOOM a shotgun goes off about 75 yards away from me...... Appeantly the guy on the next property over (we share an old logging lane) showed up late (he told me this) and heard the birds going off and heard me calling.... so he set up on the edge of his property watching the lane (where the birds moved through to the field) and shot at the Tom that was with the Jake...... He missed of course.... he told me he let the jake walk by so that way "maybe we could get a double"
So thats it .... next year I am hunting the far back corner away from everyone. either that or I am buying ym own property so I can ahve a place all to myself.
