RE: **RETURNING CHAMPS** Team 3 thread
Yeah I got my butt kicked this weekend too and had some bad luck to boot. Birds were henned up and not talkin much after they flew down. Sat mornin didn't have anything near us so went home early scoutin a couple other places on the way. Found a tom and jake with 4 hensby mybuddies on the neighbors land (doesnt get hunted) and decided to come back around noon and try it hoping he would leave them then. Went back at 12:30 and there he was right on the fence line huddled up in the corner of the field with the jake and one hen. Problem was we were having 25-30 mph winds with gusts way stronger than that. Blind was no option so we decided to just try and sneak above them and hope we would have a place to hide in some cover. Well there wasn't anywhere to hide. Got within 100 yards of them couldn't find cover so we climbed into my buddies box deer stand. We could see the birds still sittin in the field now. Made a call and they started coming right away. Tom came to 20 yards struttin but couldn't see the decoys and didn't come all the way up the hill. If he would have, it would have been a perfectly level shot against the hill side.He was on the down hill side and was hard to try and shoot over the box stand sides. They lost interest and I couldn't call being right above them so decided to try a shot as they turned to go back to the neighbors. Drew and put it on him and shot but my bow was touching the box stand side and not relizing it I shot and the bow jumped from hitting the side and my arrow did some crazy stuff. Blew it!! Took two more shot but they were through the thick woods at 30 and 40 yards and both arrows hit braches and missed.... Just not the ideal situation and didn't work out. Sunday had birds around us but would not work for anything. To many dang hens!! Still got this saturday to hunt and one more weekend in may so we'll see what happens. Maybe I'll take the good luck charm (AKA my brother) on saturday. WCL