Harold Money jr
Well-Known Member
I go to a special spot I have. I kill turkeys here every year it's simple and fun. I always walk across an overgrown pasture and slip over a barbed wire fence into the hardwoods. It's always a couple of weeks after opening until the end of season and it's always between 10am and 1pm that I go there to sit and call. I never hear a turkey gobble until I call and really never more than two gobbles until he's in killing range.
So any way, I ease across the field about 11a and see deer droppings everywhere, as I'm about to ease across the fence I see a button buck jump the fence in front of me. I here other deer running. I just go about 30yds into the woods and find a big oak to rest my left shoulder on and slowly bring my slate to hand. I run a couple clucks and yelps and immediately hear a gobble from precisely where the last several have came from. I sit the call down and get ready. At about that time I see movement and there are 7 deer coming from my right to left going to cross 30yds in front of me. I hear another gobble he's closer now and coming. I give it a few minutes and can't help but send a couple of unneeded yelps. Nothing. Then I see the white dot bouncing coming half strut to full strut and back again. The herd of deer are still in front of me and directly between me and the gobbler. He comes in to about 50yds and kinda hooks around going back down the hill. Never another gobble or anything. The question is I've had deer mess turkeys up after I've spooked em 1,000's of Times it seems. I've never had calm deer seemingly spook a bird or at least geek him out. Any body had similar? Oh and don't get started on cattle. Lol!!
So any way, I ease across the field about 11a and see deer droppings everywhere, as I'm about to ease across the fence I see a button buck jump the fence in front of me. I here other deer running. I just go about 30yds into the woods and find a big oak to rest my left shoulder on and slowly bring my slate to hand. I run a couple clucks and yelps and immediately hear a gobble from precisely where the last several have came from. I sit the call down and get ready. At about that time I see movement and there are 7 deer coming from my right to left going to cross 30yds in front of me. I hear another gobble he's closer now and coming. I give it a few minutes and can't help but send a couple of unneeded yelps. Nothing. Then I see the white dot bouncing coming half strut to full strut and back again. The herd of deer are still in front of me and directly between me and the gobbler. He comes in to about 50yds and kinda hooks around going back down the hill. Never another gobble or anything. The question is I've had deer mess turkeys up after I've spooked em 1,000's of Times it seems. I've never had calm deer seemingly spook a bird or at least geek him out. Any body had similar? Oh and don't get started on cattle. Lol!!
