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Sunday, May 17, 2009
Scott Scores on His 1st Turkey Show/Hide This Report
My hunting buddy Dave asked me to call and film for his Bro-in-law, Scott... Worked hard for almost 15 minutes today!
We were running and gunning and covered a 200 yard farm in 15 minutes trying to provoke a gobble. We stopped in a little clear area in the woods near a field where I have seen Toms the last couple evenings.... I called from a standing position with Dave and Scott standing behind me and plenty of trees if we got a gobble... I yelped loud with a box call several times to shock a gobble and got nothing... All the sudden Dave whispers "don't move he is coming right at us... I am like "where" he says 2:00 so I just move my eyes and the tom is walking fast right at us from 60 yards closing the gap in a wide open mature woods.
I whispered as soon as he gets behind the tree when I drop you guys drop... We all dropped as the bird went behind a tree at about 50 yards.
Scott is a 1st time turkey hunter and was really nervous. When we dropped we had a slight dip to hide in behind a small downed tree with no back drop.We just waited with no turkey showing after a minute or so... I slipped out a light yelp and got a gobble... I waited about 15 seconds and hit a yelp again and he hammered back from 40 yards and went into strut and now I could see him again. As soon as he fully came into view he spotted us trying to hide behind the "branch".
He putted and I told Scott to shoot. He said "I don't have a shot" and the bird turned and started to look flighty so I said just rise up and shoot him. Bam. Dropped him in his tracks. He was very excited and I was very happy to be there for his 1st bird, 1st hunt ever. He will never forget... Especially with footage to show off of his hunt.
# posted by Dan @ 8:23 AM  
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