Never turkey hunted much when I was younger. Hooked up with some folks who did during my freshman year at Penn State. I broke up a small flock the night before and me and several friends and one of thier friends set up the next morning to see if the flock was getting back together. They sat and called for themselves. I sat where I broke them up hoping they would regroup at first light as it was just getting dark when I broke them up. We'll I'm sitting for a time and I hear this noise. A turkey sails in to my right about 50 yards out. I don't move a muscle and the turkey slowely moves my way but to my extreme right. I'll just wait until he's close and swing on him so when he takes off he'll still be in range. He's just about in range when I hear this commotion. My friend's friend comes running and screaming up through the woods in my direction. Turkey flys away. He walks back and sits down. We had set up in the dark so we were probably closer to each other than we thought, but still a good distance away. About a half hour later here comes another Turkey up towards me. This one is making whistles and putts trying to find it's friends. I'm on this one- come closer and your mine... here comes my friends friend again up running through the woods hooting and hollaring. The turkey flushes and he goes and sits down. Now I'm really scratching my head, but since I don't know him and don't know much about turkey hunting I'm just sitting there, more confused than agravated. We all meet about 9:30 because some of us have class and rehash the morning. When it came his turn he said, "I had all my shells in my coverall pockets and when I turned my unzipped and turned my coveralls down to take a leak at the truck all the shells fell out so when I got to my stand I didn't have any shells. Then I saw a turkey and got so frustrated I chased it away. A half hour later another bird came and I chased that one away." When they asked me how I did I told them simply I saw two turkeys working thier way into range, but they both got chased away.!!" Today he's a chief of police!! A pretty good egg as well which makes it easier to laugh at. Man we laugh and howl at when this comes up even today.
He borrowed a gun that morning and shot a turkey. I went back to the same area three days later and called a fall bird into range and officially began my turkey hunting career, but earlier that week i thought I was getting some kind of wierd turkey hunters initiation. Enjoy, Juniorpc.