What's the closest you've had a mature strutter?
05-13-2006, 08:36 PM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Bandera, Texas
Posts: 1,636
RE: What's the closest you've had a mature strutter?
ORIGINAL: fshafly2
About 2 feet, here's one of his pictures - that's my knee in the photo, I could have kicked him...
-fsh
About 2 feet, here's one of his pictures - that's my knee in the photo, I could have kicked him...
-fsh
05-15-2006, 04:45 PM
#25
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: palm bay fl
Posts: 4,504
RE: What's the closest you've had a mature strutter?
my first gobbler ever snuck up from behind , he was 3 feet away.....got him, but this season, ihad one palm frond between me and him and i couldnt move, he saw me shaking like leaf, lol....i was so busted, lol.
05-15-2006, 05:56 PM
#26
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: cuyler new york USA
Posts: 290
RE: What's the closest you've had a mature strutter?
i've had a hen actually step on my extended leg to get past me....dragging a gobbler...so....i'd say he was three...maybe four feet away...i know...your gonna ask why didnt i shoot?!?...i dunno...lol...
05-19-2006, 06:53 AM
#27
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Northern VA
Posts: 200
RE: What's the closest you've had a mature strutter?
Had a group of jakes and toms come in Wednesday. The biggest long beard stopped behind a screen of brush, to my right (I'm right handed) and sent the jake to investigate the deke. I'd about decided to try a left-handed shot through the brush when the jake walked into my lap. At three feet he decided he didn't like me or the deke and alarm putted. I paced it to the long beard after they hauled butt - five yards.
05-22-2006, 03:35 PM
#29
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Pa
Posts: 4,647
RE: What's the closest you've had a mature strutter?
ORIGINAL: maytom
I had this guy come up from behind me, strut past my left shoulder, while following a hen on the way to my decoy set-up. Distance was about 5 feet!! Talk about having your heart jump out of your chest hearing that spit and drum comming from behind you, and end up being that short distance away!![:-]
I had this guy come up from behind me, strut past my left shoulder, while following a hen on the way to my decoy set-up. Distance was about 5 feet!! Talk about having your heart jump out of your chest hearing that spit and drum comming from behind you, and end up being that short distance away!![:-]
Nice to have a scope when that happens huh