What kind of odd places have yall set up or hidden in to kill a turkey? The strangest place I've ever set up on one was under a junked 1950-60's model Catapilar D8 dozer.
A old WW II veteran I knew stood up in a rotted out stump hole (he was about 5'2) and killed a longbeard at about 5 feet, in the Homochitto NF in Mississippi. He said all that was sticking out of the ground was his head and A5 Browning 12 gauge he brought back from Belguim from the war.
Nothing that weird, but set up in a plowed field with our cover as ground blinds between terraces. That got us a double.
Set up one morning with my back against our hunting clubs deer skinning shed and called in a turkey for my buddy to shoot.
set up against a skidder tire and called one the landing had to wait to shoot so would not hit loader the logger was happy i did :newmascot:
Just off a busy main road. Bird was on other side and had to call him across. I was worried he was going to get hit by a car before I could shoot him!
Backwoods junkyard.
Ooh just remembered another. Went on a hunt with a co-worker on a farm he had. Was going across a field when a bird gobbled. Only thing there was a shed they use to hang tobacco in and was about to fall apart. Got in the shed and called the bird in. 3 more steps and I could have poofed him at about 15 yards but the guy I was with tried to shoot through a knot hole and blew a hole through the barn and missed the turkey :character0029:
Probably the time I sat up against a natural gas pump station in the middle of one of our spots in western OK. The turkeys treat it like it's not even there, but it always takes me a little getting used to it every spring.
Not too strange, but my dad and I got a double last year within 30 yards of my Grandpas camp, and not too far off the main road. The birds crossed the road after we watched them strut in a driveway and walked down the roadway that leads to the camp. They had to have passed within 50-60 yards of the truck as well.
ten yards from my tent
I killed one while lying in a ditch one time in the middle of a gas line
Where is the "out the truck window folks" But than again that might not be strange to them :TooFunny:
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30yds from the highway. He circled around and got between me and the highway. Had to watch out for traffic when I shot. I think your supposed to be at least 50yds from public road but he gobbled at the leaves when I was walking in and I was on top of him. Wonder how many would try to get 20 more yds or let him go because its not legal?
We set up in an old tractor shed on a abandoned farm and he circled us and my son shot him through the shed door
Inside of the fondation of an old farm house from who knows how may years ago that had burnt.
Landowners driveway
My dad has 30 acres of river bottoms and cornfield and there is a old split beech tree beside the river.The split at the bottom of the tree is just big enough for me to fit in and i killed one out of it.
Two feet from an old cemetary on a mountain top in WV. Old family plot with about 20 headstones. We were on the back side working a bird on the bench below us and a bird that we didnt know was there came strutting down the road on the other side of the graves. Shot over some headstones and dropped him in the road.
Shot another one in SC swamp srutting through about 5 inches of water.
In a thin strip of woods in the median of an interstate.....The woods totalled less than an acre. I could hear him gobble the morning before I killed him so while driving home, I checked it out and saw him strutting in a little turn around area in the median woods. The next morning I killed him there.
Came close to killing one in a Cow pasture, SURROUNDED by LARGE cow pies while bellycrawling. After that experience, I wish I could have gotten a clean shot at him. :o
My first was a jake and I seen him in a field of main highway about 150 yards away. Pulled over and asked farmer who owned land if I could hunt. He knew my dad and said sure. I snuck in a little sliver of woods between me and him and got to about 100 yards away and sat down. Started to call and he immediately answered. It took a while but he finally came in to 20 yards and I let him have it. Cars where driving by and it was noisy. When I carried him to truck a few vehicles honked, must have been hunters. Scoot
Great Posts Guys! I love hearing about stuff like this............
About 50 yds behind a Wal-mart in a certain Illinois town. Killed several deer over 150" there too out of a stand that gave you a great view of the parking lot. Turkeys will gobble in the spring every time they make a store page on the overhead system.
30 yards away from a western Kansas feedlot w/ 35,000 head of cattle. thankfully the wind was at our face...
Quote from: BowBendr on February 23, 2011, 10:37:16 PM
About 50 yds behind a Wal-mart in a certain Illinois town. Killed several deer over 150" there too out of a stand that gave you a great view of the parking lot. Turkeys will gobble in the spring every time they make a store page on the overhead system.
you might be a redneck if you hunt in the wal-mart parking lot :TooFunny: that is awesome right there i dont care who you are thats funny :you_rock:
I set up on a gobbler last year about 50 yards from an active natural gas drilling well pad. Pretty noisy that's probably why he didn't come in :-\
I have killed two gobblers within 50 yards of of a public roads. Both setups I could see cars going by. In one case I watched the turkey strut in the public road before he came my way behind some hens. The other time the bird was headed right to towards the public road when I killed him.
It may not be strange for those hunt Osceolas, but I killed one last year after he flew down in water. Our easterns in MS seem to be scared of water, but that dang osceola flew down in the thickest swamp you could image with water up to the feathers on his leg. I had roosted him the evening before and was sitting on a log with water almost up over my rubber boots. I thought for sure the gobbler would fly down on a piece of dry land in front of me but for some reason he chose the water. It was amazing to me, but I am sure the Florida residents are accustomed to stuff like that.
Quote from: shootumindaface on February 21, 2011, 12:30:37 AM
Where is the "out the truck window folks" But than again that might not be strange to them :TooFunny:
It takes one heck of a caller to call one up to a moving vehicle
Quote from: boyhowdy on February 24, 2011, 03:18:27 PM
Quote from: shootumindaface on February 21, 2011, 12:30:37 AM
Where is the "out the truck window folks" But than again that might not be strange to them :TooFunny:
It takes one heck of a caller to call one up to a moving vehicle
Not when they use a rifle. :goofball: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Under a bath-tub
Laying in the middle of a beach like area. Nothing around me but sand.
Quote from: whitelightning on February 24, 2011, 04:31:08 PM
Laying in the middle of a beach like area. Nothing around me but sand.
reminds me of the song 'rub it in'
I was pulling into the driveway of a camp we were staying at and saw a tom across a field on the other side of a busy highway. Hid the truck somewhat, snuck over to a big cottonwood, called that rascal across the hwy, and smoked him.
I was walking back to the truck on the last day of a hunt and saw 3 toms strutting behind the truck, so I lined the truck up btwn us and watched them through the tented rear glass from the front bumper. Hit them one time and they fired up, two headed straight to the truck and when they hit about 20 yds, I made a quick move to the left of the truck and piled em both up. Still remember the sound of the hulls bouncing off the hood :D
Several years ago I drove back to the hunting club in Greene Co, Alabama after hunting 21 days straight and a 2 day break.The forecast was for tornadoes when I arrived at camp and one come over our camp house about 0400 and at gobbling time the rain and wind was fierce so I went back to bed. I raised the window at 0500 as the humidity rose after the storm passed.I was awaken by a gobble.
I thought I was dreaming ,but I walked out on the porch to listen and I heard him again.I dressed quicker than a fireman and walked out in the yard to listen behind some empty dog boxes and yelped on a snuff can and the gobbler cut my call.I set up in the front of the dog houses next to a barbed wire fence and he was in the bottom across the boundary line gobbling to every clap of thunder.I called him up to the yard ,killed him and hung him up on the front porch and went back to sleep thinking did this just happen !
this year im setting up at a skeet shooting range. i was out there with some buddies shooting trap, and they just walked right on up. morally i couldnt pull the trigger then, but in two and a half weeks that wont be a problem. ive been out there every day this week, and ive seen which way they walk to their roost every afternoon, and im gonna set up next to a skeet throwing house and let em walk right by me