How close have you been to a wild turkey?
04-01-2004, 09:53 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Jackson Mo USA
Posts: 323
How close have you been to a wild turkey?
How close have you been to a wild turkey?
For me I have four I remember more than the others. Two hens, Two Jakes and one Gobbler.
1. Had a hen fly out of tree right in front of my boots while sitting on the ground and she walked around until she pulled on my tips of my boot string hitting her hed on my barrel of the shotgun resting in the v of my two boots.
2. Second hen keeps trying to see my eyes and then a bug must have went in my barrel and got her attention and she stuck her beak right in the barrel.
3. While sitting in a creek bed below the level of the bank a friend of mine watched two jakes come right to the edge of the creek bank just above my head and the leafs on the edge falling onto my head. I could see my friend smile as he watched.
4. The latest while filming this gobbler he walked right next too me and stretched his wings and hit me on the shoulder.
Now none of this is april fools and all true events only the names have change to protect the innocent.
By the way enjoy the last photo.
For me I have four I remember more than the others. Two hens, Two Jakes and one Gobbler.
1. Had a hen fly out of tree right in front of my boots while sitting on the ground and she walked around until she pulled on my tips of my boot string hitting her hed on my barrel of the shotgun resting in the v of my two boots.
2. Second hen keeps trying to see my eyes and then a bug must have went in my barrel and got her attention and she stuck her beak right in the barrel.
3. While sitting in a creek bed below the level of the bank a friend of mine watched two jakes come right to the edge of the creek bank just above my head and the leafs on the edge falling onto my head. I could see my friend smile as he watched.
4. The latest while filming this gobbler he walked right next too me and stretched his wings and hit me on the shoulder.
Now none of this is april fools and all true events only the names have change to protect the innocent.
By the way enjoy the last photo.
04-02-2004, 05:49 AM
#3
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Fredericksburg, VA
Posts: 250
RE: How close have you been to a wild turkey?
Last year I had a longbeard pitch out of his roost and land behind me. i called one time and he gobbled and came into my set up on my off hand side. He stopped right next to me, approx2 feet. He stood therefor a few minutes and gobbled about 10 times. Let me tell you what I was all I could do to keep from laughing out loud. I watched him out of the corner of my ey for about 5 minutes. He eventually figured somethin was up and turned to leave. I never heard him again.
Talk about a rush. A longbeard at two feet gobbling his head off. first time he gobbled I though I was going to loose it. That will definetly get your heart going.
Talk about a rush. A longbeard at two feet gobbling his head off. first time he gobbled I though I was going to loose it. That will definetly get your heart going.
04-02-2004, 06:59 AM
#4
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Ripley TN USA
Posts: 284
RE: How close have you been to a wild turkey?
Horntagger
I was hunting up in morgan county(missouri) about 10 years ago. I spotted 2 toms with 8 hens strutting out in a field. I stalked up the ridge on the back side of the field. When I got within 60 yards of the field I had to bellycrawl the last 40 yards. The group had moved to my side of the field. I got to within 10 yards of the field and a hen was crossing the fence. I was laying face down on the ground not moving a inch. The hen walked right over my back. She never knew I was there. She started heading down the ridge, The toms were 30 yards from the treeline. I called the toms right up and shot the biggest one.
I was hunting up in morgan county(missouri) about 10 years ago. I spotted 2 toms with 8 hens strutting out in a field. I stalked up the ridge on the back side of the field. When I got within 60 yards of the field I had to bellycrawl the last 40 yards. The group had moved to my side of the field. I got to within 10 yards of the field and a hen was crossing the fence. I was laying face down on the ground not moving a inch. The hen walked right over my back. She never knew I was there. She started heading down the ridge, The toms were 30 yards from the treeline. I called the toms right up and shot the biggest one.
04-02-2004, 09:35 AM
#8
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 52
RE: How close have you been to a wild turkey?
While I setup at a tree I had a hen come right straight to my boots before she stopped. She would scratch take a couple of steps and scratch again until she got to my boots then decided she should changed direction or run into me and the tree. I watched her walk off feeding. I also had a jake with a little stub of a beard walk up to me in a rainstorm checking me out. I could have bopped him in the head with the barrel of the gun. I don’t know why or what he thought I was but I was thinking to myself curiosity killed the cat and he won’t be around long doing that.