Was working at our lease camp area this morning, replacing some rotten wood on a shooting house. I was trying to get a board to fit in a tight spot and hit it hard with a hammer. GOBBLE !! Then double and triple gobble. It was 11:01 am. I quickly grabbed my camo shirt, binoculars, face net, chair, my calls and my Versamax 12 ga. outta my truck. Slipped slowly through the woods to the edge of the big field where I heard the gobbles. 3 jakes, two hens and a mature Tom 200 yds away. Tom is in full strut. Hens are totally ignoring him. I get set up. Hit 4 raspy yelps with my Woodhaven wasp mouth call. He double gobbled. He and one of the jakes turn, staring right in my direction, abandoned the uninterested girls and make a beeline trot right at me. I get the gun in position. He locks up at ~50 yds. Jake walks by me at 30 yds. Tom goes into full strut mode again. I make a soft yelp and he walks closer toward me but now he's behind a cedar. I see nothing but green. Ever so slowly he takes 2 or 3 steps. He goes into strut again, head back. I cluck. Head goes straight up. BOOM !! He jumped straight up and turned a backward flip.
Flipped the bird at 42 yds. It's now 11:14.
21 lbs. 10" beard and a 5" beard. 1 3/16" spur on left and 1 1/4" on right.
I'm blessed indeed!
Flipped the bird at 42 yds. It's now 11:14.
21 lbs. 10" beard and a 5" beard. 1 3/16" spur on left and 1 1/4" on right.
I'm blessed indeed!
Good bird, congratulations.
