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All Hunting => Fall Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: hawglips on November 08, 2016, 07:14:39 PM
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Traveled up to VA to do a little fall hunting this weekend.
I went to a property that is dominated by a creek bottom, but borders some cut-over land, a field, and some pine ridges. I did my typical fall moving and calling hoping for an answer, or to surprise a flock and bust them up. It was very quiet, as far as turkeys were concerned, but I was enjoying the beauty of the fall woods.
While I was thus engaged still fairly early in the morning, I enjoyed a bonus of having a doe prance by me about 50 yds and never sensed me, with a small 6 point buck trailing behind her about 100 yds back with his head down and grunting as he went. He smelled me, and came back around to about 15 yds trying to figure out what I was.
After being on my feet easing around and calling for about 6-1/2 hours, I decided to explore a part of that property I'd never been in before. After a while of that, I came across a place where a cut-over, pine ridge and creek bottom converged, and decided to sit down against a tree with an old blow-down beside it to offer some partial cover, eat some lunch, and snooze as needed, while I called. There were squirrels running around, and lots of songbirds there, so I figured it felt like a good place to be.
After a little over an hour of dozing off and calling intermittently, while still on my back, at about 1:40, I hit the box again with long lost yelp series, and a turkey answered me off to my right with a one-note, drawn-out yelp. I immediately sat up and turned around to face it looking for the bird with my gun up while I fumbled in my shirt pocket for my mouth call. As I was doing that, I saw a hen down by the edge of a small swamp pond standing side to me in that posture of "here I am if you want some company, but I ain't coming no closer." It took me about two seconds to decide to let my favorite 28 ga turkey hunting partner take a bite. I am not sure that any other birds were with here, since I didn't see any others. But there could have been some trailing behind her, and I thought I might have heard one running off after the shot. But I can't confirm that.
I felt very fortunate to have everything come together like that. This time a year certainly is very pleasant time to get out after turkeys.
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Congrats!!
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Very nice --- way to go!
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Congrats. nice way to get er done.
Jon
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congrats *up*
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Congrats on your fall turkey! *up*