How close ?

[Mr. Longbeard]

What is the closest you have been to a turkey? The first season i ever went hunting i went out about two weeks before the season and decided to do the unthinkable. I took my calls out in the woods. I know I know your not supost to do that. Well this was my first year and i didn' t know any better. Well i go to this spot that i thought might have some turkeys in it and i listen. I hear a few faint gobbles off in the distence and i decide to call. Well about 20 minutes later I hear a gobble 30 yards away just over a ridge. Well i have know face mask, no gloves just camo pants and camo shirt. Well i pull my hat down over my eyes I pull my hands up into my shirt sleeves and I hunker down against this tree i' m sitting against. Well these two jakes come up over the ridge and walk right up to me about 3 feet from my feet and they both give out a gobble. I' m about !@itting in my pants because i want to come back in hear opening day and hunt these birds. The last thing i want to do is scare them away. Well thes birds are looking hard for the hen and they jump up on a little dead fall like 3 feet to my right. Now these birds are so close i cant even think about moving my head to look at them so i am just froze!!! These two jakes get tired of the game and just move on down threw the woods gobbling about every 50 yards or so. After that i was pumped up and i remember saying to my self " Man this turkey hunting is going to be easy" Man was i ever wrong!!!!!

[Der Jagd Meister]

about 10-15 yards! Jakes at a decoy! Did step on several of them at my land!

[benhuntin]

large gobbler 5ft. behind my tent blind. I couldnt turn to shoot without spooking him. I had one walk up from my right to about 15 ft. last year when I was sitting against a large oak about 10 ft of a field. We saw each other at about the same time. I just happened to turn my head to the right and there he was. He caught the movement through the brush and putted as he tried to slowly sneak straight away from me. There was brush about 10 ft. between us and an open field on the other side of the brush. He moved away acrooss the field and passed a hole in the brush and I got him when he was about 30 yards out. 28 lb er

[G-Dawg_02]

well i have had one come within 5 yds of me, but i have also walked up on nested birds in a wheat field that were right at my feet.

[TURK4RF]

A few years back my dad and I got in close to set up not too far from the turkeys roost. When the hens decided to fly down they almost flew in our laps literally. One hen landed about 2-3 feet from me. Scared the daylights out of me. Of course the gobbler flew in the other direction!

[BIGAMENY]

same as benhuntin in a blind had a jake and gobbler at about seven feet.

[TScottW99]

Picking one up close enough?

When I was about ten years old, my parents and I were building a new house out in the country. One day during a lunch break we heard flapping and saw one turkey land on our not finished roof. Then we heard something inside. We ran in and found a hen who had flown in through the window opening on the backside. She was freaking, we cornerd her and picked her up and set her on her way.

Had a hen at about five feet last year, called in her by making her mad, trying to lure her " boyfriend" in. He hung up at about 70 yards and she was behind me at about 5 feet [:-]

[turkey7]

I shot my first tom about 5 feet. same year I missed one about 35 yds (found out later the gun I was using was good for about 20) anyway one of the toms must have been confused about the direction of the blast and ran to me and stopped maybe 3 ft. I' m not sure if it had anything to do with it or not but it was pouring down rain.

[MKMGOBL]

Just before the season opened here in NH I went of one evening to roost a gobbler. I went it the woods and sat just on the other side of a stone wall looking out into a clover field. I saw a turkey about a hundred yards away and I let out some yelps just to see what it was.

Well, he gobbled and then began running up the field edge right to me. I knew I had @&%#!* up so I just hunkered down and watched him through the stones in the wall as he strutted just on the other side. He was only the thickness of the stone wall away,about 3 feet. It was awesome how he pin pointed my position with only a few yelps. I took him a few days later from the same that spot.

[Lefty Llewellyn]

Twice I had three jakes walk by my blind at about 5 yards before. I wasn' t going to shoot a jake so I just let them come into my setup. A tom would have been dead once he got inside 35 yards. These guys came in to my left and walked right by my blind to get to my three decoys. They got bored of my lifeless decoys and wondered off after about 5 minutes totally clueless.