YEKRUT
Well-Known Member
We have been at the beach all week but I prepositioned my truck at a strategic location faso my wife could drop me off on the way home and I could get a few more days in south alabama in before it closes. I picked up our seed for the spring planting we are going to do this weekend, got some food and cold drinks at the store to hold me over and headed to camp. I talked to another club member this week and he told me they had disked a few fields already so it would take as long this weekend so I figured I would try one of them that hadn't been hunted in a couple weeks. I get to the field and slip in, check for tracks in the plowed ground but there isn't but a couple hen tracks since the rain this week, I waste up and call a few times over the next hour and a half with no luck. I decide to head to the other side of the club where there are some larger clover plots and just check the roads for fresh sign for tomorrow morning mainly. I really didn't have high hopes at 5 in the evening. I slip down the road for a half mile or more and haven't seen anything but a few hen tracks from this week. I am nearing a field when I spot some fresh gobbler crap......I mean from today and about 4 piles of it along with strut marks all over the road. I start easing up toward the field and decide against it. I didn't want to bump the birds and something just told me they were in it or close by. I backed up and moved off the roadway about 20 yards and set up with good cover. I gave a soft yelp on the call I made and then killed a bird with the next day and hen yelps back and then starts cutting. I cutt back and I could tell she is walking toward the roadway. About a minute later she steps out in the road and starts walking toward me. About 30 seconds later he steps out and walks right down my gun barrel and I dented the primer on him. My best bird this year with 1 1/16" spurs and a thick 10.5" beard. I flushed a hen on the road on the way out that was sitting on 11 eggs. My 4th alabama bird for the year.
