My turkey hunting video...

Just now getting around to posting about my hunt down at Patoka during the first few days of the season. This hunt happened the first Friday of the season, it was a rainy and miserable morning. Knowing it would rain all morning my buddy and I set up in a ground blind on a field that we'd seen some sign in but hadn't yet hunted. Nothing much happened for the first few hours of the hunt, finally around 10am my buddy needed to get back to Indy so he snuck out the back of the blind and headed back to camp. It wasn't 30 minutes later that I noticed 4 turkeys crossing the field about 125 yards away. Those public land birds are SOOO spooked so I just gave a few purrs and got them turned my way. My decoy setup was a Primos She-Mobile decoy on the ground in a breeding position, along with a Dave Smith hen that was on a stake about 3 yards away. Both decoys were 15 yards from the blind. Anyway the 4 turkeys made their way cautiously toward my setup and in the hard rain it wasn't until they were within 25 yards or so that I verified that all of them were jakes and no long-beards. At that point I relaxed and just watched. The jakes all approached the Dave Smith decoy and surrounded her for a few moments. Then one of the jakes started shaking and the other 3 backed off. He then went into a half-strut and started to mount my hen on the stake! At that point I grabbed my iPhone and started taking pictures. The other 3 jakes must have seen me move so they walked off and left the dominate jake to tend the decoy. I took pics, then switched my phone into video mode and took some video. It was the most hilarious thing I'd ever seen while hunting. Eventually I had enough and decided that a bird in the hand is worth 2 in the bush so I shot the decoy while he was standing on the back of my Dave Smith decoy!

Once I got home I put together a little musical tribute to the experience...... Enjoy.

youtu.be/ZGDlRqUH19w