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Old 04-26-2010 | 06:42 AM
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AHH!! SOOOoooooooo close! Today I have a dentist appointment to get a compression made for a retainer since im getting my braces off next wednesday and well the appointment is at 11:30 and if I went to school I would have to leave around 10:30 just to get to the dentist place so I asked my mom and dad nicely if I could skip school in the morning and go turkey hunting. I got everything ready sunday night and went to bed around 10:30 pm. I was up just about all night thinking of turkeys and waiting for that alarm to go off at 4:15 so I could go out turkey hunting. I got up, got my dad up, and off we went to our hunting spot. The only way of getting to our spot is on a dirt road... imagine a dirt road after 3 straight days of hard rain... yeah, not the best driving conditions for a truck, so we had to walk to the spot. It was only accross a couple looong fields and over a few hills but we got there on good time because about 10 minutes after we got settled in the blind there was a tom gobbling right behind us. He was gobbling constantly in his roost and then around 6 my dad spotted 4 turkeys fly down off the side of us. Probably 85-90 yards away. There was two nice toms and a couple jakes. They all worked there way into the field then I called a couple times and that dominant tom puffed out and started showing off for the ladies. They all stayed out about 75-80 yards out and never came a inch closer. The two jakes wandered off into the tall weeds and then finally appeared into the cornfield where they met with a hen or two and another jake. Then behind them was that nondominant bird with the big boy behind him struttin. So they were about 200 yards away gobbling and what not... Then the hens and went one direction and for some odd reason the toms and one of the jakes never followed... They just stayed in the field. After about an hour of watching them and talking back and forth with that dominant bird, they finally came back to us. This time they got 55 yards out in front of us and then they saw our decoys and the nondominant bird started puffing up too.. They walked about 5 more steps and froze.... Then just stood there not wanting to come in. Then next thing I know they take off running still in half strut. Im thinking what the heck... I didn't scare them. Then I look over and out comes two more toms in half strut. They all meet up and start chasing eachother around. Then they went back into the woods and saw or heard of them again...

No bird.... but.. I did get alot of AWESOME videos.
You all are gonna have to wait till the end of the season to see the video because im making a 2010 hunting video with deer and turkey and all that good stuff..
I will get some pictures from the videos and show you guys..
Wait about another 20-30 minutes and ill get some posted up.
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