Closest youve gotten to a roost.

[TN Whitetail Freak]

Yesterday morning i snuck into a spot off a corner field edge the birds usually roost on up the field edge back in the swamp....at 5:30 i got back to the corner spot and as i was picking out a tree to sit on a turkey begins flapping blindly as if its fly to another limb it didnt fly away it was pitch black....well i hoped it was a lone hen but boy was i wrong...i sat down at the nearest tree.....at 5:45 i hear some light tree yelping and boom he hammered literally roosted 10 steps in the next tree then another gobble 30 yards away as daylight cane i begin seeing turkeys in the.skylight i counted 22 one hen was over my head....it was a cool experience but i didnt like being that close my knees butt hand everything fell asleep i was miserable. They ended up flying down 60 yds to my right circling 100 yds in front of me and piled into the field...interesting tidbit though....the first hens flew down at 6:20 then the gobblers at 6:35 then they slowly one spaced after another the rest of the hens flew down and the last one flew down at 7:10

 

[RAFI]

I got within 50 yards of a gobbler one time.He was facing away from me and I thought he was farther away when he was gobbling.a couple hens flew to him at daylight.they all flew down and he strutted off with them.I worked that bird for a couple hours and then hit him with nonstop cutting.He left the hens and came into me

 

[RUGER]

Walked in one morning and stopped to just listen.

It was after green-up and I knew I could move on a bird if one sounded off on the limb.

I was just leaning against a tree standing there and got to hearing clucking.

I was in a spot where the sound was bouncing all over the place and I couldn't locate exactly where it was coming from.

Finally heard some russling and looked STRAIGHT UP.
There he was, 20 feet above my head. LOL

Stupid jake.

 

[knightrider]

setup against the same tree he was in one time, he hit the ground twenty five yards infront of me and it was over!

 

[Bone Collector]

I have gotten under them in deer season and walked under them and spooked them in turkey season. Closest I ever got in killed was last season. Got about 25 yds from him, he pitched to 45 yds or so, bang flop, and went home.

 

[CAW]

Got under a group of longbeards last season. I mean directly under them as I was sitting at the base of the tree they were roosted in. I had no idea they were there as I walked in while it was dark, but as light started breaking they started gobbling and I just stayed as still as I could. At flydown, one of the gobblers landed fairly close and started walking away. I clucked, he stopped and I shot. Fun hunt, but certainly the shortest I ever had.

 

[260rem]

I was standing in my yard one morning heard one gobble a couples of times took off toward it got close to where I thought it should be. but it hadn't made another sound. I was at the edge of a small gulf and decided to call. I pop up my tent got everything inside look out there he stood I don't know if it was still in the tree when I got there or it just walk up out of the gulf just then either way I shot it. I don't guess that counts as getting close to a roost but it did at the time to me.

 

[tickweed]

straight under one, several times

 

[pledbetter]

Had about 15 roosted in the same tree that i had my bow stand hung in..i was about to tie my bow to my haul rope when the treetop exploded with turkeys...i threw my brand new PSE bow about 20 feet and ran about 20 feet before i realized what was happening ...also sat down under a cedar tree one time during muzzy season and had 2 gobblers literally drop out of that tree right on my feet...my muzzleloader went airborne that morning

 

[ROUGH COUNTRY HUNTER]

i have been directly below them a few times

 

[catman529]

2 years ago I accidentally got 10 yards from a tree with a gobbler and I shot him out of the tree

Just this evening I watched a bunch of hens fly up and then the strutting tom finally went out of strut and flew up to a tree about 20-30 yards to my left. I can't hunt there in the morning because turkey hunting is now closed there until next year. Oh well I definitely got to watch some cool stuff

 

[Rob R.]

The first time I ever turkey hunted I walked in the woods off of a paved road. I was maybe 120 feet in the woods, walked under a big mature pine tree and I scared a gobbler off the roost. It about scared me to death. I walked another 150 feet or so and set up and started calling. He gobbled back at me one time. I called and called but he never gobbled again. I heard something in front of me about 20 minutes later. The gobbler came back to me and I busted him. I haven't killed one since.

 

[tree_ghost]

Well yesterday morning i was pretty much eating tail feathers for breakfast. Birds never knew i was there.

 

[Gravey]

A couple of years ago I sat under a tree and birds ended up right behind me. One flew down and thought it was landing on my head. It hit the ground and I realized it was a longbeard. About a minute later he was dead. It was the fastest hunt I've ever had and was nothing more than luck.

 

[benellivol]

I sat under a tree deer hunting one time about 45 minutes before daylight. There was about 30 hens in the tree and they flew down into my lap at daylight.

I had no idea what was going on. It was only the third time I had hunted by myself at the ripe age of 11.