I took a break today from bowhunting for deer and decided to turkey hunt instead. I hunted from just about daybreak till around 2 o'clock without seeing or hearing any birds. Being it was so quiet I decided to head back home and call it a day. When I got home I sat down at the kitchen table and had something to eat. As I'm sititng there I see two birds walk across the hillside behind the house. I gave them about 30 minutes to move off before heading back outside and try to get after them.
I wound up heading in the direction from which they came from and set up in that general area. After a few minutes I started to do some calling using a longbox. It took about 10 minutes before they started to answer and had them at about 30 yards within 15 minutes after they started answering me back. I setteld my bead on the closest one of the two and and squeezed off the shot. She went down hard and flopped a couple of times before she expired. All in all it was a good day in the turkey woods!!
Here she is with the longbox from BigTom that I used to call them in. Hard to see in the pic, but the call is 1/4 sawn Sycamore.
