RE: Team 8 "The Snoodlers"
Well team I had a pretty good day for the first day of my hunt although I didn't get a shot at any of them it was awesome just to be out there and seeing them.
I got out to my happy hunting grounds around 5 am , got all my gear and headed into the woods , picked a spot for my Double Bull T5 brushed it in a little and put out one Bobb'n Head feeding hen decoyabout 15 yards in front of my blind.
Just arounnd first light at 6 am I heard the first fly down so I got my mouth call and start with a fly down cackle followed by some soft yelps.
Got a response right off the bat so I yelped some more and againI heard another gobble , every time I yelped that bird gobbled back , then I saw him he was about 50 to 60 yards in front of me and coming in.
I get my bow ready to draw and continue to call with some soft yelps and purrs and he stops at 35 yards looking at my decoy and my blind.
He starts moving side to side going into half strut and gobbled one more time then went into full strut at this point I could clearly see that he's a jake.
Even though I was some what disappointed about the jake , I was still excited to see him ,we played a waiting game untill a doecomes walking thru.
When the jake sees the deer he breaks out of strut andwalks away and out of shight ( darn deer ) so Iput my bow down and call again with no luck , thats jake is gone.
Then around 8:00 I saw the big off colored tom that I've been hoping for , only he comes in quietly and off to myleft whereI didn't have a clear shot.
He's at 40 yards and walking by so I gave a cpouple of soft yelps with no reaction at all to my dismay he didn't seemto looking for love this morning , and continued to goe about his day leaveing me just sitting in my blind in disbelief.
Then everything went quiet and still for a long time , saw some more does walk thru but no more birds untill 12 noon.
One lonesome hen walks towards me , see's my decoy and goe's off in a diffrent direction and then to my surprize I find out why ... that hen saw something.
It was a little fox ... thats right I said fox , I thought it was a rabbit being so small but rabbits don't have long tails and pointed noise's.
This little fella must have been a baby , it walked right by my blind and when it saw my decoy the little guy goe's into stleath mode and attacks it.
It was the funniest thing I ever saw , that baby fox jumped right on the top of that decoy and then jumped off and looked, then sniffed at it then ran away.
Sorry to goe on an on but I just wanted to share with every one on how my first day went , all in all I had a nice day out there.
I'll try again tomarrow maybe this time I get that big off colored tom that I saw this morning.