Funny stories from past hunts

[jakebird]

Let's hear 'em! I have a good one from last yr. A buddy and I were workin hard to get his boy on a gobbler late in the Pa season. After striking out in the morn we were headed to another spot when we spied a big gobbler feeding in a field where i had permission to hunt. We parked over the hill, eased in close inside the woods and set up just as the biggest memorial day wkd bike rally ive ever seen came roaring up the valley steady stream of bikes for half an hour and completely deafening. Think artillery loud. I was pretty sure the noise had chased him off, but we sat tight and called for half an hour with no response. We couldnt see to where he was in the field but we should have been less than 75 yds. We decided to crank it up because we had nuthin to lose so we gave him the loudest, rowdiest simulated gobbler fight we could muster, purrs, gobbles, wing beats, etc till we were blue in the face and figured at that point he was definitely in the next county, so we finally headed back to the truck....

[jakebird]

only to see the dadburn turkey still feeding right where he had been, he hadnt moved ten feet in all that time. We watched him thru binocs till he finally left. All we could figure is the darn thing was deaf! We should have prob left the boy put the sneak on the deaf old bird! In all seriousness, who knows what he was thinking?

[mikejd]

I got a funny one that we talk about every year and we still roll just thinking about it. As a matter of fact Im laughing to my self right now. I hunt in Ny so our law is that for us to have a leagal bird it must have a beard protruding past the chest, now it can be a single hair but it must have something. Ok here goes we were having a slow hot quiet day we being my dad, My brother and me. we meet up in the woods to see what has been going on and nothing was happening,O yea i should mention that in NY we can only hunt till noon in the spring. so we have about 45 minutes left of the day so we decide to stroll this logging road that is near by make a few calls see if anything is around even if it ends up being for the next day. so after a few hundred yards we get an answer now our first reaction is always to sit right down because as you know these birds are on you in a damn blink when you aint ready. So Im gonna call and one of them will shoot. After about 15min nothing is happening we havn't gotten another response nothing and mind you time is gettin real thin here. So I make a break for it back down the trail to make this bird think im leaving and hopefully pull him past my brother or dad. Well my dad sees me break out and he flanks out right so they have a few spots covered. I see him move so I wait till hes settled before my next call. He sits, I let loose my next call and bam he answers hard you know the ones that rattle you bones. so with that i am to far to see but i see my brothers barrel moving ever so slightly so i figure he can see him but no shot. now were talking 11:50 hear so with that I see my dad stand up take a few steps forward and boom he lets it fly Now I see fluttering he runs over steps on the bird and its all over that fast. Here is were it gets funny i run up to see what he has and i imedietly look for the beard but there is none. I look at him and say dad wheres the beard he looks at me like what are you talking about so i say hes got no beard he goes look again. I said didnt you look he goes no he was struttin in gobblin spinning around showin off to the 2 hens he was with and i didnt look for a beard but hes got to have one. so hears the story he (the bird ) says to the 2 hens dont worry about those hunters they cant touch me i chewed off my beard lets go ill show ya. now my dad likes to say he under estimated who  was on the other side of the hill. now the reason my brothers gun was mooving without shooting was because he was looking for a beard my dad thought he had no shot jumped up and shot. so for 3 years after that my dad had his first 2 misses and no kills we tell him that bird hexed him. he has since broken the hex. also when examined closer there was a 1/4 inch beard and a slight petrusion wich did make it leagal. we now have a 1/4 inch beard on the mantle. I am sure its a funnier story if your with us to hear the reanactment.

[mikejd]

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