I didn't get out too much this month. I've never been as fanatical about turkey hunting as I am about deer hunting. Last time I went.. last Saturday. I stayed at our camp so I could go out early. That didn't work out I slept late. When we did get up there were a whole gaggle of turkeys about a 100 yards from the camp. Looked like all hens....didn't matter though country was too open...no way to get up close enough for a shot at them without spooking them. Anyhow, this was at about 8am. 9am I've had coffee and such and am heading up to my blind (set up night before). About 300 yards from camp, up hill. I was on 4 wheeler cuz I needed to bring my blind and such out with me. Anyhow, as I turn a corner in the tractor road, just off the field where we saw the turkeys, 3 red heads pop up out of the tall grass, 15 yards away. They are going buggy. My gun wasn't loaded (I was on the 4 wheeler) so by the time I jump off and get a shell chambered none were close enough for a real chance at a shot. Prolly 70 yards out. Those babies can run!

Anyhow, this is where my question comes in....I did take a shot. But into the ground in the middle of them. My goal was to get them off the ground, and hopefully seperate them, since it looked like they were all buggin out together. It worked, they all flew off in seperate directions on my shot. My plan was then to hot foot it to my blind and sit quietly with my hen decoy out for a while then start trying to call them jakes in to her. I know it isnt' fall but I thought perhaps bust 'em and then call them back together may be a sound tactic.

Remember it was the last day of the season for me with only 3 hours to go, and these were the first non-hens I'd seen all season.

So.......thoughts??? I'd like to hear your opinions before I tell you how it turned out.

(PS: I did learn to not oversleep. Had I been in my blind early those birds may have all paraded past me and I could have shot one and gone back to bed)