Great job Terry...real nice bird....
My morning started out with my friend Vinny, who never bow killed a turkey. We setup his decoy, climbed behind a fallen tree...perfect setup. At 6am a gobble echoed through the woods.
I started my sweet talking and then 2 more gobbles! More than one bird...roughly 15 minutes later, 25 yds away were 2 good size toms and 1 slammer bird.
Displaying, strutting...gobbling...but they wouldn't come in. Having just one decoy out just doesn't cut it. I would have preferred no decoy and honestly felt the birds would have walked right into our lap.
As the 3 toms moved off, I headed to ambush spot #2....we setup and called for roughly 30 minutes before another gobble shocked us back to reality.
A good ten minutes of calling and down the hill he comes. Another super display and strut...only 25 yds from me...wide open...I was waiting for Vinny to shoot but from his angle, he couldn't see the entire bird.
When I decided hell...I'm shooting, the tom decided if the hen was coming to him....he's leaving. He offered no shot and we let him walk.
We left the decoy behind and "walked and yelped" for 2 hrs. Had one more encounter with a lone tom but he never showed his face.
Noon time came too quick, so we left the woods and headed home in the rain. tomorrow will be different...going solo, no decoy and maybe I can catch a break.
Topic: Show Us Your NY 2009 Spring Turkey (Read 1354 times)
