catman529
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Ran into this bird yesterday afternoon with 1 hen. When she left him, I had him all fired up. But being a field bird, he stayed good and hung up until it was time to roost, then he turned and headed to the trees for the night.
Long story short, I had a couple more encounters with him today and finally had him in a field this afternoon with one hen. I had a feeling they would head my way as I was sitting between that field and the one where he went to roost last night. I found a good setup in the fence row, and sure enough his hen slowly took him right to me. She saw me at about 20 yards but I didn't even blink. She just putted off to my left while the tom came in slowly from the right. Shot him at 32 yards and had to jump up and finish him off. My gun doesn't even pattern to 40 because I missed so bad this year I went back to a more open pattern. He was at the max I will shoot my current setup.
He was the only tom I know of in that spot, although I did see a Jake earlier. I thought it might be an old bird, but it was just a good ole 2 year old gobbler. Glad to finally win the match with another frustrating field bird. Man I love to watch field birds, but they aren't the same to hunt as a gobbler in the woods. At least he gobbled 500 times in the past 24 hours, it was nice to actually hear a bird gobble more than a couple times.
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Long story short, I had a couple more encounters with him today and finally had him in a field this afternoon with one hen. I had a feeling they would head my way as I was sitting between that field and the one where he went to roost last night. I found a good setup in the fence row, and sure enough his hen slowly took him right to me. She saw me at about 20 yards but I didn't even blink. She just putted off to my left while the tom came in slowly from the right. Shot him at 32 yards and had to jump up and finish him off. My gun doesn't even pattern to 40 because I missed so bad this year I went back to a more open pattern. He was at the max I will shoot my current setup.
He was the only tom I know of in that spot, although I did see a Jake earlier. I thought it might be an old bird, but it was just a good ole 2 year old gobbler. Glad to finally win the match with another frustrating field bird. Man I love to watch field birds, but they aren't the same to hunt as a gobbler in the woods. At least he gobbled 500 times in the past 24 hours, it was nice to actually hear a bird gobble more than a couple times.
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