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05-06-2007 | 04:20 PM

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ILBUCKFEVER

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My Turkey Adventure

Well, I just got back a couple hours ago from a turkey hunting adventure with my dad and a friend. We really don't know much about turkeys, and none of us have ever harvested one, but it was more of a social gathering than anything. Anyway, we set up a blind Thursday evening on the edge of a freshly planted cornfield and got set up early the next morning. About 10 minutes after we were set in the first bird gobbled. We believe there were three different gobblers going off and they gobbled hard at us for about 40 minutes. When the sun came up we saw a bird out in the field making a b- line for our decoys (approximately 300 yards away). All of a sudden the bird turned around and booked back into the woods, and as this happened I looked to my left and 4 deer were trucking past me in a full out run towards where the turkey was. After that we didnt hear anything and went back to camp for a little bit. We went out around 10a.m. to hunt a different location and got back in the truck right at 1:00pm (end of shooting hours) and drove back to camp. We pull into the field where we were camping at 1:06 and there were 4 turkeys about 200 yards from our campsite.

The rest of the afternoon we sat in the back of the truck and watched the birds travel back and forth from the creek to the woods. We also had a coyote running around the field.
To be honest, we felt real good goin into this morning because we knew where the birds were hanging out and we got set up at 3:00a.m. a couple hundred yards from where they were the night before. We sat until well past daylight going some soft purrs and didn't hear a peep. There were a lot of deer running around but no turkeys to be seen.
Now, if you have read this far, hopefully you are willing to answer a couple of beginner turkey questions. 1. Why do shooting hours end at 1:00p.m. (I'm sure theres a reason for it)? 2. Is it strange that the birds were gobbling good one morning and not at all the next? 3. Is it possible the coyote running around scared off the birds?
This is by far the longest post I have ever typed, but I am still going on adrenaline even though I'm back at home now and don't have a bird. It's just great being out when the sun comes up and hearing everything wake up. I now see how addicting turkey hunting can be and what an accomplishment it is to actually get one. This is by far the trickiest critter I have been after, and can't wait to get back at it in the following years. Any advice or responses are appreciated, and congrats to all that have bagged one this year.

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