Went out to the Boone Public with my friend Jon Jones to again try at gobblers with a bow. This time I got to try the blind sitting with Jon. We got in early, set up quietly and waited for the birds to wake up. Legal light came and went. When they woke up, they woke up loudly. We had six different birds behind us in the ravines all morning. At one point a group of three guys walked the trail about 200 yards in front of us. Not 20 minutes after they walked by a hen and a longbeard came out of the woodline to our left. Big bird. He strutted and starred at our decoys and then vanished. The hen remained in the field until one of the other guys stopped at the field edge and glassed our birds for us. How very thoughtful of them. He proceeded to then walk across our entire path thus spooking our bird. Nice.
Once we lost site of him the woods behind us lit up. There was a gobbler behind us that was so hot he would gobble at air. We decided to move our blind to the bottoms where the birds seemed to want to be all day. We got down quietly and set up without busting any birds. Again, there was about 20 minutes of silence before the woods opened up again. This time we had four separate birds within a couple hundred yards. At one point the bird we saw above gobbled and he was right behind us. Just about the time we had these birds in the bag as we were pulling them in on a string, the woods shut up again and we had nothing. 10 minutes later we were greeted by some of the most horrendous turkey calling that has met the woods. The guy calling was clearly strangling his cat, and he was failing miserably. Then another chimed in. And another. This was our cue to get out and find food. At this point we weren't even mad. This guy sucked so bad we pitied him. We just left and of course, busted a bird 100 yards from the parking lot. All in all, a great outing, but I am becoming a little weary of public land users.
Stay Tuned
No comments:
Post a Comment