This old bird had been around for a few years. For the last two weeks, my time has been hectic around the farm so I have not had a chance to turkey hunt as I would have liked. I bought some calves just before the season opened. My dad who is 84 years old had been wanting some cattle and despite my better judgement, I took dad to the cattle sale. Well, calves always want to test the fence so I spent that weekend starting at 2AM chasing calves. I decided to convert two pastures from horse fence to cattle proof. Every evening I fenced with barb wire while watching turkeys do their usual traveling between woods and pastures. I also bought 300 Green Thuja giant trees to plant around my hay field. I was planting a barrier from my neibors to invite the deer into food plots I had planned to plant in the future. The trees arrived last Wednesday and I got the field covered last night. Opening day of turkey season was cold with 30 mile wind gust. The next day it snowed but despite the weather, there was several turkeys arrowed that first weekend.
This morning I listened from my porch for a gobble at daybreak, one faint gobble told me they were on the mountain across the road. I knew they would eventually work there way down to the pasture. Hurriedly, I went to the edge of the woods by the road and set up my blind and avian flock. I called with an elk mouth call, nothing. I found out that you can call turkeys with elk calls if you were wondering. After several calling sessions, I was beginning to think they saw me from the mountain while I set up. After about a half hour, I heard something walking behind me, I turned to see a huge gobbler walking up to one of my hen decoys. I reached up and turned the GoPro on record. I grabbed the Wolfer and leaned back in the blind while drawing, came to full draw and leaned to the right then shot. Turkey are hard to judge for me but again I managed to hit the spot. I knew he was hit hard and as he walked off then I seen another gobbler and about 5-6 hens following in his direction. I lost track of all of them as they went up the mountain and eventually turned and crossed the road into the pasture. I waited a while then walked in the direction. I heard him flopping and knocked another arrow while walking over a little hump and I found him expired on an old logging trail. I used the same arrow topped with a singled beveled grizzly that I used on two hogs at the PBS hunt and my Wolfer pulling about 53lbs at my draw. I will get Dalton or Jeff to post some pics.
Topic: Calling All NC Turkey Bowhunters (Read 2972 times)
