Public Land Head Scratchers

[fallsflight]

I'm going to tell on myself. Way back in the day I had an old 1977 c10 pickup that was more rust than good metal. I hunted a lot of public ground and often late mornings I would stop by pull offs and throw a hoot or cackle to see if I could raise a bird. One day as I leaned on the truck something fell and made a bang and screeching sound in the bed. And a gobbler gobbled. I decided to try it again so I picked up a big stick and hit the rusty side of the bed so it would vibrate and squeak. Bingo, he gobbled. After that I would never leave a pull off without taking a whack at my truck bed. I am hear to tell you there are a few gobblers who died because they gobbled at the sound. One day I was in the local hangout and a guy was telling everyone about this idiot he seen up on the ridge beating the side of his truck....his words were, "what a dumba##. One of my buddies turns and sees me and blurts out, "Oh that's him there" the guy looks at me ( I was just in my 20s) and said, "young man you ain't doing anything but scaring everyone's turkeys" and my buddy shoots back, "buddy that old chevy's gave more gobblers a ride than you've ever seen" (That statement wasn't true but my friends were just defending me). I just laughed and thanked him for the advice.

Not a head scratcher, just a similar use of a truck for a shock gobbler like above .  I used to pull over along the side of the road in this particular spot in the evenings, to see if any birds were roosted at the top of this steep hill we hunt.  I'd turn the truck off, roll down the window and lay of the horn.  Birds would gobble.  I'd start the truck and drive away and hunt them the next morning.  Still hunt the hill, but hardly ever roost birds in the evening anymore and never in this spot or with the horn. It was just the perfect spot to do it and not have to climb the hill. 


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[Bigeclipse]

as far as turkey hunting goes the only incident I had with an idiot was with myself being the idiot lol. Let me explain the story.

So my first year turkey hunting (7 years ago), I was so pumped I could barely sleep. The day before, I had a gobbler roosted just 100 yards off of a corn field in the woods so I knew id likely have a chance at him. I got into that field an hour before light and setup. Finally the sun starts rising and sure enough I hear the gobble but it was slightly further up the field than where I was positioned (This field is like 500 yards long and has hills in it so you cannot see one end from the other). Any ways I keep hearing the occasional gobble ~150 yards away. I can hear him but again, I cant see him due to a slight rise in the field that is about 50 yards in front of me. He is definitely in the field now judging by where he first gobbled in the woods and where he is now gobbling, but again I just cant see him because of a slight hill in the field. Well suddenly about 30 min after the gobbler got to the field I hear another hunter doing a hen call at the opposite end of the field...it was a terrible sounding hen call might I ad. so basically think of it this way, you have the one hunter on the one end 400-500 yards away, the gobbler in the middle and then me on the other end. A calling battle ensues. Now i'm getting pissed because I am supposedly the only one who should be hunting this field so I say screw it, i'm going to see if I can army crawl up over the small hill in front of me and maybe ill get a wack at that gobbler...maybe just maybe he is closer to me than the other hunter and will be right over the hill so I can shoot him. I was not worried about my safety for two reasons...it is a long field so I figured I was far enough away from the other hunter and secondly I was excited/angry that this hunter was there...(I know not smart and I should have just stayed put). Anyways, I proceed to army crawl through the mud. Finally sometime later I make it to the bottom of that slight rise of the hill completely in the wide open but again I cant see the gobbler and he cant see me. Well wouldn't you know it, now I hear that hunter doing a hen call just on the other side of the hill so now im furious and thinking he is either trying to mess up my hunt on purpose OR he does not realize im here so im also afraid he might shoot me so I yell out "Hey hey someone is here"....as soon as I do...a freakin hen crosses over the top of the hill with the gobbler in tow...I lock eyes with her and she looks right at me and then they both run off! There was NO OTHER HUNTER. So what I thought sounded like a terrible hen call from another hunter was a REAL hen and my calling actually called her in with the gobbler. To say I felt like an idiot, especially missing a chance on a great bird is an understatement.

[POk3s]

Hahahahaha! That is great!