Well, It was pouring today at 4:30 so old soft butt , said lets take the house blind and sit at a field edge. The wife and I get to the setup location and setup and place out 5 Decoys, 3 Hens and 2 Jakes. We settle back for a wait and watch.
As we sit there in the rain , theres Deer walk by,Jackrabbits,skunks,Squirrels,coyote's 2 of them, and then out of the woods comes a Hen, she walks right up to the decoys and carried on across the field. Sound was quiet with No Gobbles early, but around 8:00am as the thunder moves in, we hear birds gobbling out away all the way around us.
9:30 the cold was setting in and I said lets take a walk around the out side edge of the property, and off we went. (I thought in the back of my mined) But ( No) it wouldn't happen to me.
As we reach one side I hear a bird gobbling not far off, we move fast to the woods and setup beside a good tree. I start to call and the bird is coming, as I work him slow he moves into the 45-50 range and the woods are thick, we sit still and quiet, waiting out his view and then all of a sudden a Limb from a tree about 15 yards away breaks and falls 25feet to the ground with a thump! The bird quiets and seemed to disappear.
We get up and walk on, 300 yards on I find a feather patch, gobbler feathers every where, as I look on I find the gobbler, looks as if the coyotes got him, had the back eat right out of him and the thing was still warm.9 in beard and 1 1/4 spurs on the thing.
We carry on and I do some light calling, as we enter another field, I walk along the edge and call light and suttle. Then there's a gobbler that comes over a little rise and comes face to face with me , and he turns and runs , not one peep out of him [:@] man this is not working I said to my wife , I should have stayed in the blind ,instead of taking a walk.
Way we go again and start to head back towards the Blind, I start walking on the field edge of the same field as the blind, theres trees in a rocky area in the midle of the field that is between Us and the blind, so I can't see the blind yet , and the all of a sudden I hear a
Gobble! NO WAY! I could not believe my eyes,,, and I guess you all know what I'm going to say ?
YES! [:@] There's a Gobbler in the decoys out in front of the blind and we are 200 yards away !
I can't believe it! I said,,,,, we sat and tried to call the bird over to us and he would not for the life of him cross that field.[
]. The bird walked off and the the time ran out as it quites at noon.
Boy I'm glad because I have had enuff for one day [&o] I want to go home and go back to bed. maybe things will get better...BT
I've heard the stories from others and it happened
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