Thursday, October 22, 2015

Fall Turkey season

This is the first year I have had private property to be able to try to hunt fall turkeys. Season opened yesterday so I went out to my buddy's house with a  friend from work who wants to try hunting. He'll be my Minion this year and for years to come if he likes it. Anyway we got out yesterday I got everything set up and right at daybreak I had a hen fly down 10 feet to my right. Now let's be clear that during the fall season you can shoot it if it's a turkey. Sean was on my right and I was trying desperately to get him to cap this turkey while leaning around me. No matter what I did I couldn't get him to shoot this bird, so we watched her and the other 8 hens meander off never offering a shot. The rest of the day was pretty uneventful unless you call watching squirrels and cat napping eventful. We called it a day at 6pm.
The second day found us on the same property 10 yards back from where we were the first day. To my surprise the turkeys roosted in the same trees, and when they started to fly down the fun started.
We had hens walking around @ 30 yards and I kept asking,"do you see her? she's right there, when you get a head shot... shoot." Well the bird finally cleared enough for him to shoot and when he did the others just kinda jumped up and landed on the path @ 30 yards. That's when I sent some lead flying at her head, I found my target and as it turns out so did Sean's. So there we were about a half hour into the second day with our tags filled.
Caution: there may be some questionable language used

 Yep she's small but she'll be pretty tasty.
By the way the fall season is much different than the spring season. I equate it to deer hunting, a lot of it is luck and good scouting just because they don't really respond to calling like they do in the spring. So you all you can really do is try to get them to cross your path close enough for a shot.

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