the ? is, will i ever get one
04-19-2007, 11:52 PM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Minnesota
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the ? is, will i ever get one
My 2007 Turkey Hunting story to date:
Wed April 18th, 2007:
4:30 AM: It's opening morning, i am pumped up.The Ol' Trykon(brand new last year) is all sighted in, and the NAP"Gobbler Getters" are ready torock. I arrive to my spot alone, my camera man couldn't get off work, so i'm huntin solo.I make the walk to the spot, bout1/4 miles from my truckAfter hours of scouting i've got the spot. I take out the double bull and get it almost set up (no where near 7 seconds) and crunch, my finger gets pinched in the blind, ow. Its bleeding everywhere but heck i don't care im gunna kill a turkey! Not, didn't see or hear a turkey! where did they go? Your guess is as good as mine. My finger now hurts.
Thursday:
YAY another day of turkey hunting! I pick up my camera man and head to the spot, yes THE spot...the same one! Am i stubborn? maybe, but i know they are there! We hike the 1/4 mile to find my blind 40 yards away near the swamp, talk about loud. We get all settled in the blind, now staked down, and i get my calls out, i can't find my diaphrams! Why? Because they are in the Truck. WOW, i ask myself: "didi really need the extra practice inmy truck? So i grab the slate and give a couple tree yelps and then...A Gobble, wich shocks another one...and another, and another. At least 5 differant gobbles, your so wise i tell myself. Well long story short, they got silent off the roost and i never saw one, most likely henned up. I start thinking, will i ever score a bird! I glance down at my finger, yeah hurtin again!
Well guys, going out all day tomorrow...took school off...feeling a littttle sick (cough). Roosted some birds tonight, hopefully success story with pics tomorrow. Gotta run, dang fingers bleedin
KP
Wed April 18th, 2007:
4:30 AM: It's opening morning, i am pumped up.The Ol' Trykon(brand new last year) is all sighted in, and the NAP"Gobbler Getters" are ready torock. I arrive to my spot alone, my camera man couldn't get off work, so i'm huntin solo.I make the walk to the spot, bout1/4 miles from my truckAfter hours of scouting i've got the spot. I take out the double bull and get it almost set up (no where near 7 seconds) and crunch, my finger gets pinched in the blind, ow. Its bleeding everywhere but heck i don't care im gunna kill a turkey! Not, didn't see or hear a turkey! where did they go? Your guess is as good as mine. My finger now hurts.
Thursday:
YAY another day of turkey hunting! I pick up my camera man and head to the spot, yes THE spot...the same one! Am i stubborn? maybe, but i know they are there! We hike the 1/4 mile to find my blind 40 yards away near the swamp, talk about loud. We get all settled in the blind, now staked down, and i get my calls out, i can't find my diaphrams! Why? Because they are in the Truck. WOW, i ask myself: "didi really need the extra practice inmy truck? So i grab the slate and give a couple tree yelps and then...A Gobble, wich shocks another one...and another, and another. At least 5 differant gobbles, your so wise i tell myself. Well long story short, they got silent off the roost and i never saw one, most likely henned up. I start thinking, will i ever score a bird! I glance down at my finger, yeah hurtin again!
Well guys, going out all day tomorrow...took school off...feeling a littttle sick (cough). Roosted some birds tonight, hopefully success story with pics tomorrow. Gotta run, dang fingers bleedin
KP
04-20-2007, 10:08 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Missouri
Posts: 3,763
RE: the ? is, will i ever get one
Good luck! I would try and roost them like you said you just did, then set up on them in the morning. If you cant roost them then i would try to use a locator call, like an owl hoot, in the morning to locate them, get close, and set up. Keep it up! Nobody said it would be easy...
04-20-2007, 11:29 AM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: South Dakota
Posts: 153
RE: the ? is, will i ever get one
I feel your pain, first morning I stepped in some sort of varmit hole walkin in the dark, it hurt like hell and i still had about 100yds of up hill walkin to do. Next day I too left my diaphram calls in the truck!! But when I do kill one this year it will be that much sweeter!! Cant wait to send an arrow at a big ol tom!! Good Luck everyone!!!
