I have had several memorable hunts that I still recall often but this story one of my favorites. Although I prefer to hunt with a friend, my buddy started going on pay hunts in Oklahoma & Iowa. I decided to hunt NC Kansas in a county where we had success in the past. The first day I only saw 1 Jake & a few hens. The next morning I hunted for 6 hours and it was slow again. I did find a roost area and decided to set up near it for the afternoon although I had not heard or seen any come from the roost the day before.
Late afternoon I saw 3-4 turkeys crossing a large field about 200 yards away coming to the wood line where I was set up with an aggressive looking Jake & a Avian X hen decoy about 20 yards in the field. In a few minutes 15-20 hens & several gobblers were about 200 yards out in the field 150-200 yards to be right. I yelped & clucked a few times to get their attention and when they got near the wood line & saw my decoys they turned my way. I positioned my shotgun, called lightly & waited for them and 9 gobblers were out front. At about 70 yards all 9 Toms ran full speed and attacked the jake decoy & knocked over the hen decoy down. I could not determine which had best beard so finally aimed at one that had a huge neck & beard. When I fired 2 big gobblers went down & I was tagged out.
Of course I called my buddy that was on the pay hunt in Oklahoma!
