After a grueling season with many many many hours in the woods, I had to travel North to Pa to kill a bird. I went in blind to some land I got permission to hunt on. It was pouring rain and thunderstorms when I got out of the truck before daybreak. 10 minutes into my hunt I was soaked to
My underwear.
I knew I wanted to get out of the timber into the fields because of the rain, so I made my way down to some back fields as it was starting to get light. When it comes to turkey hunting, I'm pretty old school. Don't use decoys and never a blind. But I do own decoys and decided to put them out because of the weather and just give it a sit. I stick a hen and mature gobbler out in the field, get situated against a tree, and happen to look up and a gobbler is entering the field. Then all of a sudden it was 3 longbeards and a hen. Two of the gobblers start fighting about 70 yards out from me, and the other gobbler makes a beeline for my decoys. Come right into 25 yards and I knock him down. I run out to him and the other two gobblers are still fighting 65 yards from me. It was nuts. I never have hints like that.
Not a huge fan of the decoys but it was nice to have a bird for once fixated on something else, the decoys, rather than me at the tree.
9.5 inch beard 2-3 year old. I'll get pics up in contest thread.
