My First Turkey Hunt

[Entropy]

My First Turkey Hunt

 

Well, I took yesterday off to try turkey hunting for the first time, with my buddy Mike.

 

I woke up at 3 am, showered (oddly I feel warmer, if I’m good and clean, and this was to be a cool morning sitting still in the bush), stopped at Tim Hortons in Port Perry then headed out. Met up with Mike at 4:30am. It was a beautiful morning. It seemed like I had not been out to enjoy a morning like this in ages, but I guess the last mornings would have been when out water fowling, or November morning.... naww it couldn’t have been that long.

 

We choose our spots, put a couple of decoys out and hunkered down. I was getting a little board and related turkey hunting to fly-fishing (another I have never tried). Unlike other hunts, you just sit there, trying to be completely silent; you can’t talk, and don’t even get any excessive from walking. I was just about to doze off when a Jake or a Hen came out of a tree directly above me. How I had not flushed it upon arrival is beyond me. It landed about 20 feet out from my decoy, just on the other side of a fence with a few tufts of grass intertwined throughout it. I shifted, moved a little able to see it’s head, but it’s breast was still hidden. Pull the trigger I couldn’t; I just could not make out a beard. I lost sight of it as it moved a little closer to my decoy. Next thing it is 30 feet down the trail to my left running towards my buddies decoy. You should have seen it run! It looked like it was drunk, running all stupid and what not. Majestic, not this road runner. Halfway between our two locations it darted into the bush.

 

My buddy saw 2, one was too far off, and the other he too could not see a beard.

 

At 10am I called it a day; my buddy, Mike, kept on, but with only similar success.

 

Would I turkey hunt again .... Yes. Am I going to try fly-fishing? ... Not this year..

 

Entropy

[trapshooter]

Good luck bro!! I was hoping to get out this year but it looks like I won't have time before heading north.

[huntervasili]

I went out yesterday for an afternoon hunt... ended up being helping out a friend make a shed then we hit the woods... only saw a couple of tracks, not a turkey in sight for us... good luck out there next time get yourself a good old tom

[misfish]

Fly fishing..............................Yer a braver guy then I. LOL

 

 

Get yerself a nice tom.

[Entropy]

Well, if the rain holds off I'll be out this eve, if not for sure tomorrow morning.

 

Gobble! Gobble! Gobble!

[TJQ]

Hey to see one on your first time out is very cool.. i would consider that a success!

[Clampet]

DMASSE knows a thing or two on turkey hunting.

[Entropy]

Sat Friday evening, saw nothing.

 

Woke up at 3:30am Saturday, too much rain for me. Watched fish'n shows on TV.

 

Might try Wed. evening. Got to work on the lawn tonight.

[lilkynan]

Saw two hens yesterday, and a coyote walked within 5 yards past me and did not even notice me.

 

Then I fell asleep - don't know if I was snoring, but did not see anything all afternoon -

[Entropy]

lol, I've been there too .... sort of doze off, come too ....

[Terry]

on the way up to Beaverton I had to stop the truck to let a heard of 15 turkey cross the road

where's the crossbow when I need it