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Post by HillBillyJeff on Apr 27, 2018 7:49:06 GMT -5
Opening day I go back to the woods where I killed my bird last season. They've been using this spot a lot. Still dark and I hear a ton of tree top gobbling. I hear them fly down. I hear the guy hunting my neighbor shoot at them. I know there is a good chance they will come through this cut through right to me. Two toms and a hen do. Within about 5 yards. Gun is up and cocked. I move ever so slightly to aim and gone are the birds. I should've moved further back into the trees, especially with the lack of foliage this spring. I come in for lunch and a break. For the afternoon I move to another spot where I got my birds in 15 and 16. Deke is set up near a dusting station. 100 yards out pops a hen heading straight west to roost. I am to the south of her facing the north wind. Out behind her pops two toms. One doesn't pay my deke any attention, one does. He gets within 45 yards of me and still north of the deke and decides to follow the other two west. He stops and I pop. Bird flops up into the air and just starts doing circles. Never seen a bird do that. Then he flies up for about 20 feet and lands, does this a few times and he is over to the woods edge back to the east. I had put in another shell and pop, down he goes. Checking out the bird I see that one of the shots took out his eyes. Might explain the circles. Now I don't know if this weather had the birds running late for breeding season, or if they were early, but I am not seeing the birds I saw the week before season. Seen one hen yesterday and heard one gobble.
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Post by schall53 on Apr 27, 2018 8:14:20 GMT -5
That's quite the turkey dog you have there.
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Post by genesis273 on Apr 28, 2018 14:16:57 GMT -5
Congratulations on the successful hunt!
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