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General Discussion => General Forum => Topic started by: Florida Marine on April 09, 2011, 02:30:43 PM

Title: Suicide Hens!!!
Post by: Florida Marine on April 09, 2011, 02:30:43 PM
Turkey Season: Day One, got a turkey, sort of.  As the gent I was hunting with and I walked in, we busted 4 hens off roost.  Heard one hit the power lines that are in the training area we were in and make a plonk/crash noise. 

We set in, worked a few birds they all left us to get laid...no gobblers past sun rise. 

On the way out, he says we should go see if that turkey was there.  Sure enough - dead hen with a broken neck. 

Carried her in and gave her to the GW who was all suspicious I had shot her - I guess the absence of shot holes and the neck cranked 180 wasn't enough to show him I didn't shoot it.  So day one - no birds.

They are henning up right off the roost - literally, we watched the hens fly down and then they all departed the area.