RE: How close have you been to a wild turkey?
 

3 feet:) awesome pic:)

RE: How close have you been to a wild turkey?
 

I've actually touched many toms, as I picked them up after I shot them!!!
:D:D:D Hee-hee. Sorry about that.

Actually, the closest I've been was one afternoon/evening when I was scouting, without camo mask, etc. (a lesson to be learned here, all), walking down a trail when I heard leaf scratching in the woods ahead. I sat down on the edge of the trail, but also kind of "in" the trail and here comes an entire flock of hens and toms on their way to roost. I froze, tried to not blink or move my eyes. A tom walked up to about 12 inches from me, looked at me, alarm putted and turned and flew off. The other birds didn't panic, but they all flew into roost trees, then re-roosted to other trees a 100 yards off. My answer, then, is about a foot, and my lesson for all is wear camo and carry a camo facemask and hat when scouting, so you don't blow the next day's hunt over the "roosted but not yet roasted gobbler"!!!

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3 ft. last year a hen intercepted the tom she came in from my back side & walked right past me.........................................I hope she got hit by a truck, ate by a coyote or died of something. She foiled my plans all last year, she was so raspy it almost sounded unnatural. If the property owner would've let me hunt there in the fall........................I would have shot her. I know my therapist says that in about 15 years I will be able to laugh about this....................................yeah whatever.

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Back before I bought a ground blind, I used some camo netting to hide behind. Two years ago, I was setup and a hen decided to see what was behind that net. She stood there looking over the net at me at maybe 3 feet from my face. I waited as long as I could without blinking, but when I finally did, she decided that she had somewhere else to be.lol Another time, I was deer hunting and had to work the night before. I was down in the limbs of a tree that had fell and couldn't stay awake anymore and fell asleep. Something startled me and I jumped up. There were two hens right behind me and when they took flight, one of their wings actually hit my hat. It scared the hell out of me and I was so shook up, I just packed up and went home.

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Last year while cutting and running, I made a call but wasn't really paying attention when my buddy started cussing about another hunter being in the area and responding to my call with some awful yelps and clucks. It donned on me that no self respecting hunter would call that poorly. So I told him get down because that's got to be hen. Well we laid face sown in the road as the hen walked about 4 feet from my head, catching my eyes following her she putted and ran off.

Man I thought that was close until I read some of these posts:DSome of you guys may want to work on your cat like reflexes and try and grab one next time;)[8D]:D

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Acouple of season's ago I had a hen run right over my foot ,now how close is that ??? The other day at work I went to go out the back door to see if the turkey's were in the feild about 30yrds away, and there was a Tom not 10feet from the door ,it didn't take him long to get the heck out of there.

nubo

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Hey bldhound, you and Snowdog crack me up!:D:D:D:D

RE: How close have you been to a wild turkey?
 

My first year turkey hunting, I didn't know what I was doing, so I built a blind a couple of weeks before the season expecting them to come to me. I even sat on a stool! Well, I got lucky and put it where a bunch of hens (with a BIG tom) came feeding through. (It sure couldn't have been my calling!) I moved EXTREMELY slowly and managed to put the slate down and pick up my shotgun that I had leaning up against a tree. (I told you I didn't know what I was doing!) By the time I had it on the tom, the boss hen had fed right in front of my blind. When I pulled the trigger, she was BEHIND the muzzle! I had to watch my step comming out of the blind -- she left a mess getting out of there!

That was about 25 years ago and I haven't been quite that close to one since.

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I've had two jakes about 3 feet from me once clucking looking for me...

RE: How close have you been to a wild turkey?
 

I have been this close to one once--