Hodgenville Hunter
04-26-2009, 10:16 PM
I killed my first ever turkey Saturday morning at 9:30am. I over slept for the morning hunt and was walking through the hay field going to my blind at about 7:00 when I heard the gobble at about 100 yards in front of me in the woods where my blind is. I stopped walking and set my decoys right where I was standing and set back in the fence row and tried to call him in, but instead I could hear him walking the other direction. After about 30 min I decided to get up and go set up at my blind. As soon as I got to my blind I could hear gobbling 100 yards behind and he was circling around the blind. Now it is aobut 9:00 and I could still hear him but never once see him. I decide to head out for the day and try it again the next morning. When I get out to the wood line in the field, there was a hen 20 yards over the hill from me and a gobbler about 200 yards from the hen. I sit down and this hen came obout ten feet from me before she turned and ran off. Thank goodness she didn't spook the gobbler. I looked down and seen the gobbler walking back into the woods and decided to go after him. He walked into a cedar thicket and I walked in about 30 yards in front of him to circle around him. I walked in about 30 yards and I decided to sit down and call. When I called, he was only 20 yards in front of me, I guess it was so thick that he could see me. He finally walked in a clearing and I took my shot. Down he goes and I got my first tom. What luck. He weighed 22.3 pounds and a 9" beard, 3/4 inch spurs. Not bad for my first turkey.