Well, we endured a couple of hours of downright nasty weather this AM. Around 7:30 the wind started to break a little bit and the rain tapered to a light drizzle. We were planning on leaving @ 8:00. At 7:45 some geese flew over and a bird gobbled right above us, less than 50 yds away! I got the kids situated and started calling on my box. He cut me off and two more birds gobbled behind us. I called again and all 3 responded. We stayed focused on the original bird...he was close and I was expecting to see his head pop up at anytime. All of a sudden one of the kids pointed behind us and said that there were turkey coming. Sure enough, two longbeards were heading for the decoys. I got the "shooter" kid turned around and pointing out the other window toward the dekes. The two gobblers were at 45 yds or so and one of them started to get a little spooky. The lead bird was hooked on the dekes and made it to 30 yds or so. I told the kid to shoot whenever he was ready. He did, but the results weren't exactly what we wanted. The gobbler kind of just flinched then started walking away out of the view of the porthole window we were shooting out of. He got the gun out one of the other windows and shot again and they took off flying. A scan of the site revealed no feathers or anything and we found nothing walking the woods where the birds went to after the shot. Dang it.
All three of us were soaking wet and cold at this point so I took them home. On the way back through 10 minutes later there was a big strutter with 3 hens further down the field and another longbeard picking out in the corn stubble where we had just left!!!
We'll be back after them tomorrow. Hopefully, the weather will be a little better...
