YEKRUT
Well-Known Member
I posted this on aldeer first so y'all will have to understand the references to my buddies by their handles and not real names. 
We arrived at daylight Friday morning and watched about 30 strutted come off the roost and listened to about thag many go the other direction. Wr scouted the morning and then went and got checked into our room and unpacked. We hit the roost back up at dark and watched them all come back in. At dinner we ran into Keith, Cody, and Chris Ashley from Hardcore hunting and talked to them a little over some all you can eat catfish. We all split up for the opener and hunted a few miles apart. I killed 2 that morning, Solo killed 2, and aucoonhunter killed his first ever Rio. I was trying to put the stalk on some birds Saturday morning and had lost their exact location when a rabbit comes flying over a hill right at me. About the time I was thinking "wonder why it's hailing a$$" over the hill at 20 yards comes a yote hauling a$$. You could see the "oh chit" look in his eyes when I moved to shoot him. He wheeled around and got a tss flip.
It started raining before lunch so we cleaned birds, eat and got plans together for an afternoon hunt. The wind was absolutely howling at 30+ mph, temps in the low to mid 40's, and it was raining. We knew where the birds would come back from when they came back to roost so I went to another piece of property and got where I thought they would work through and set up. Solo and aucoonhunter went together to the killing tree Solo calls it. I ended up punching my 3rd and 4th tags and tagging out. Solo killed his 3rd and aucoonhunter killed his second and 3rd. We filled 10 of 12 tags on day 1.
Plans today were for me to sleep in so I could drive home and let them go try to tag out as well. Solo and I both ended up sleeping in and aucoonhunter went back after them but never got one close enough to finish his limit. He said he heard over 1000 gobbles this morning though. It's amazing how much they gobble and how many birds they are but how they can be so hard to get in front of some times with them covering ground like they do out here. They made the decision to call it well enough so we are East bound hammer down.
We arrived at daylight Friday morning and watched about 30 strutted come off the roost and listened to about thag many go the other direction. Wr scouted the morning and then went and got checked into our room and unpacked. We hit the roost back up at dark and watched them all come back in. At dinner we ran into Keith, Cody, and Chris Ashley from Hardcore hunting and talked to them a little over some all you can eat catfish. We all split up for the opener and hunted a few miles apart. I killed 2 that morning, Solo killed 2, and aucoonhunter killed his first ever Rio. I was trying to put the stalk on some birds Saturday morning and had lost their exact location when a rabbit comes flying over a hill right at me. About the time I was thinking "wonder why it's hailing a$$" over the hill at 20 yards comes a yote hauling a$$. You could see the "oh chit" look in his eyes when I moved to shoot him. He wheeled around and got a tss flip.
It started raining before lunch so we cleaned birds, eat and got plans together for an afternoon hunt. The wind was absolutely howling at 30+ mph, temps in the low to mid 40's, and it was raining. We knew where the birds would come back from when they came back to roost so I went to another piece of property and got where I thought they would work through and set up. Solo and aucoonhunter went together to the killing tree Solo calls it. I ended up punching my 3rd and 4th tags and tagging out. Solo killed his 3rd and aucoonhunter killed his second and 3rd. We filled 10 of 12 tags on day 1.
Plans today were for me to sleep in so I could drive home and let them go try to tag out as well. Solo and I both ended up sleeping in and aucoonhunter went back after them but never got one close enough to finish his limit. He said he heard over 1000 gobbles this morning though. It's amazing how much they gobble and how many birds they are but how they can be so hard to get in front of some times with them covering ground like they do out here. They made the decision to call it well enough so we are East bound hammer down.
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