Your favorite turkey hunt story.

[unclerick]

I got reminded of this in a post I read and thought it would be good to tell our favorite hunt story chaseing turkeys,
   Mine was about 2 years ago, me and Wes went to a new spot he aquired for us one mourning and got there a litle late (not my fault). The turkeys were gobbling when we got there so we set up real quick in some trees about 30ft apart, the grass was waste high so once we sat down we couldn't see anything. We started to call a little and a big ole loud mouth hammered right close to us and as one can imagemine, we got excited. I, for some reasome could not sit still, and Wes was throughing rocks and me trying to get me to sit still. Now we were sitting in some trees next to a hillside and this old gobbler can down that hill towards us just hammering, at one time he sounded like he was 20ft from me but I never seen him, a few minutes later he gobbled 50 then 100ft up the hillside then he was gobbling up on top.
  So me and Wes decided to take off after him since he was so close to start with, we'd call and this bird would start comeing in then he would leave, he'd come in and leave, I bet we set up on this bird a dozen times, we finaily got a chance to sit up on him for one last time, Wes snuck under a fence and saw 3 birds comeing our way, alright another double,,,or so we thought. We worked on them fired up birds for another 20 minutes till we heard them gobbling on the far side of the valley, we chased that 1 bird for 3 hours hard, it was the best chase I've been on thus far and to never even see him.

[harvester]

Good story, I have one but don't have time right now to put it on here, maybe this eveining.

[gob09]

my faerite is when we were at the swamp and those birds roosted right over us rick can tell astory better than i so ill let him tell it

[harvester]

my faerite is when we were at the swamp and those birds roosted right over us rick can tell astory better than i so ill let him tell it

COME ON RICK, LETS HEAR IT.

[gob09]

i was on public land that joins a private sod field one night when i was walking out not ten feet from my truck was a big tom strutting with some hens. so i made a hard rt into the woods and setup i knew they were going to roost so i just clucked 2-3 times never seen them i was about to get up and go home when i caught movement. so i stayed still those birds roosted right over my head one hen flew up in a dogwood tree and stared me right in the eye.
i could have spit on her she was so close she hopped from tree to tree trying to see the hen but i stayed still gun up and ready. till about 8:00 i seen the birds around 6:30 i waited till it got pitch black before i crawled out went back the next morning and got skunked they flew 300 yards out in the sod field and never looked back

wish i had of listened to dan said advised to setup a blind out in the field but i did'nt get my lazy wore out but out of bed

[unclerick]

Great stories guys.

[harvester]

Well when I really was getting into turkey hunting, reading everything I could get my hands on and talking to everybody about hunting them. I was working third shift, nineteen at the time, I got home one morning and had to run a couple of errands. So after I got all that stuff taken care of, bout 11:00am, I decided to go out for a little while and see if I could get a bird to respond. I went to a spot that I had seen several birds strutting there before and decided to cutt on the slate call, a Doug Camp call to be exact. I had one respond about a 150 yards below me in a holler. So, I got prepared, got my decoys out and settled in next to a big brushpile that was left over from we had cut the wood off of. Treetops everywhere, weeds bout 4 feet tall, briars, just plain ole nasty stuff. Stuff turkeys won't walk through! So I commence to cuttin again and he gobble. He was a little closer up the holler. Being the newbie that I was, I just knew that he would continue on up that ole loggin road up into the field, hang a right and walk right into my lap. Then he gobbled again and I yelped back to him to to secure the deal. So I just stayed quit from the on, lookin, lookin, lookin, NOTHIN. Then I heard something behind me, so I eased my head over  in that direction and there he was lookin at ME. In all the brush, weeds, briars, the nasty stuff that turkeys won't walk through there he stood. He saw me move and he just eased off the way he came, I tried to ease my gun around and shoot him but he got a treetop between me and him and GAME OVER. LESSON LEARNED, AGAIN. BY THE TEACHER HIMSELF, MR. LONGBEARD.

[unclerick]

That story Wes is talking about is the next hunt after them birds roosted over him.
   He called me about it that night and we decided to hunt there the next afternoon and try to video a hunt. I got in there about 2:30pm and set up our blind then carried my gear in there, got all set up to film this hunt. Wes finaily got off work and showed up about 3:00 but he came in the long way and from behind me, my whole goal was to get Wes killing a bird on film so I just stayed put while he hunted and looked around, at 4:00 he came into the blind area and we discussed our "tactics".  It wasn't very long when we heard them birds comeing in, and they didn't come in the way they were supposed to do, like they ever do. They came in from behind us, almost the same way Wes came in, boy did they make a racket scratching and talking then they roosted right on top of us and it was still early, we sit there for 2 1/2 hours till it got dark enough to leave with out spooking them. I did get some vid though, not of birds but of 1 thug, this is how we roll....

[harvester]

 

[gob09]

thanks rick im sure everyone could do without a pic of me with my camo rearend up in the air

[unclerick]

thanks rick im sure everyone could do without a pic of me with my camo rearend up in the air

No problem buddy

[harvester]

come on, need more stories. turkey season is still a while out, so let hear somemore. Dan you have to have some good ones, especially with that swamp buggy you all drive around.