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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 29, 2014 10:26:40 GMT -5
This happened to a friend of mine and his wife..
He and his wife (she is doing the shooting snd he is calling) had 2 aggressive gobblers about 250 yds down the field the other morning. Those toms had a hen or two and chased off another gobbler that tried to join them. But, they werent responding to his calling or his gobbler decoy, probably just too far.
So, h and his wife decide to drop back into the woods and pop out real close to the birds, leaving their decoy behind. Well, they take ten minutes getting into position and peer to their left out in the field. No birds! Looking to the right, they saw those two gobblers on a dead run to their decoy, then watched as they beat the crap out of it.....200 yds away. That is priceless!
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 29, 2014 10:28:38 GMT -5
That happened to me once too.
Anyone else got a funny story to add.
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Post by steve46511 on Apr 29, 2014 13:46:37 GMT -5
Not with turkey but calling. My first attempt calling fox in my teens I had borrowed a "Johnny Stewart" caller. (record player type, 3 million batteries and weighed about 50 lbs). I sit it down on the edge of a Christmas tree farm with about 3 foot trees and lots of grass, turned it on and sat the spindle down on the record. As I did everything then, I hadn't tested it yet and the sound was on "weld" and scared the heck out of me. I leaned over and turned it down, stood up THEN threw a shell in a 788 Remington in .243. As I walked, attempting to get to a little cover and stool about 10 yards away, I heard a rustle and turned back to see a red fox tearing towards the caller then on my right. I spun, swung the rifle from the hip (range was like 5 yards) and shot the fox right as it ran across the caller shooting both the fox and the caller. The buddy I borrowed the caller from was not happy at the time but over the years we laughed about his old caller with a hole shot through the cover. Fortunately I didn't hit the working part of the caller. Photos would have been a great memory but back then we all didn't carry cameras (phones) in our shirt pocket and I wasn't smart enough in my early years to photograph much of anything. I believe it was also my first full blown adrenaline rush.....complete with stutter!
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