2 nd day hunt report

[TARNATION !!!]

Good luck Charlie. Enjoying your posts.

[charlie cleveland]

got up early this morning throed together a peanut butter sandwich and off to hopefully here that old gobbler..was at a place we call the indian mound its not really a burial mound but was a old campsite many of a arrow head has been picked up here..this is where i expected the old gobbler to be close to but that old gobbler never made a sound this morning..i did hear 1 gobble but 15 minutes later there was a shot so i presume somebody got a turkey..well today is my church day so had to quit hunting at 7.00 be after him again in the morning... charlie

[hugh rather]

Good luck in the morning,weather's getting unsettled some,maybe they'll move. Those arrowheads are a good omen someone liked hunting there before.

[charlie cleveland]

well today almost turned up bird no 3....a cousin called me and wanted to come down and film a turkey hunt this weekend so i told him to come down today...he arrived this morning at 5.00 am he came into the house with a new gobbler decoy in a box and gave it to me...boy this thing is state of the art...it unfolds and twists back up like one of themlittle pop up blinds...this things has 2 sides of a real turkey painted on it thing sets on a little rod that pushes in the ground and the wind will turn and move him around..this thing is so life like you wanta shoot it... well off to the woods we went we stood and used a locater call but nothing heard so we set up our decoys and got into the blind sat there till 7.30 ...so we decided to move at the next set up we heard 1 gobble but never saw the tom...so we pulled up stakes and went to the store and got gas and a sausage biscuit...we decided to go look at some large fields to see if any turkeys was feeding in them as we drove there a hen crossed the road in front of us..as we got to the big fields we did a little calling and a large came out into the field but returned back to the woods well we left there and went back to my house for a sandwich..it was about 12.00 at this timeby the time we got to our new place to huntas we drove up to a small food plot we seen 6 turkeys feeding i guess they had either seen us or heard us drive up anyway they left the field shortly...boy the turkeys had really been useing this little food plot..we set up our decoys 2 hen and that ig new big gobbler boy was he a good lookin bird in full strut....we got into the blind and got every thing ready.. i gave several purrs and a coupla yelps and we got a gobble out about 2 hundred yards..my cousin terry had turned on his cam corder and in about 15 minutes that old gobbler came down a old road in full strut boy he was a beauty...i gave apurr and that old gobbler spotted the decoys boy did he ever stretch that old neck out..he gave them decoys a good 5 minutes of looking over he then turned and got behind a brush pile but we could still see his head moving..he gobbled 1 time he stayed in the brush pile about 5 minutes a strutting and carrying on..finally he started walking away from us and was out of our sight for a moment but then there he was he came out into the edge of the field in full strut he was at about 90 yards..he was really struttin but never gobbled he came about 3 feet and stood and really was lookin that old gobbler decoy over...the gobbler stood there for a few moments and turned around as to leave i gave a coupla soft yelps and he gobbled all the whiule the camera is really getting some good action of him...that old bird just could not mustard up enough courage to face that old tom decoy..the turkey went in behind a fallen tree with dirt on the roots and he stayed there for what seemed 30 minutes finally we lost sight of him and he gobbled once more and then we heard him in the distance once and he was gone...we sat in our blind for another our but terry had to be back in alabama before dark so we cut the hunt short...well the old gobbler lives for another day...it was a really good huntand best of all terry s got the old tom on film....who knows maybe tommorrow.... ps thought about you boys while i was watching that old bird... charlie

[Mills]

Another great story. Best way to look at it, if you got one more you would have your limit and your season would be over.

[Paul P.]

Charlie, I realy enjoy your hunting stories. Keep up the good work. I still can't drive, so you are a great pleasure to me. Thanks

[hugh rather]

Good luck tomorrow.I was looking at some of those new decoys in the catalog; they look like the real thing.

[charlie cleveland]

up early as usual got in the woods about 5.30 ..i set and listened to a whooper will that was really giving it his best but he or she never got any responces...as daylight came on it started raining and i had to get back in the truck only lasted a few minutes and i was back out listening at 6.15 i heard a gobble it must have been 3/4 of a mile in about 15 minutes he gobbled again so i got in the truck and drove about 1/2 mile and stopped and got out and walked to where i thought he was i stayed there till 7.30 and he never gobbled again...pulled up stakes and went to the house..had to haul off my wifes dr pepper cans to the can man...believe it or not i aint got a dr pepper can oin the place to shoot at.. well got that job done and hit the woodsat 1.30 stayed till 7.00 but never heard a thing but did see fresh tracks of a hen and a long toed gobbler...gona go after the gobbler that gobbled this morning in the morning.... charlie

[Paul P.]

Go get 'em Charlie.

[charlie cleveland]

was up at 4.00 this morning boy i could have slept a while longer... got to the woods and listened for a gobbler for about 30 minutes none was heard so i set up on the edge of a field hopeing to be able to lure one in...boy the decoys were showing out in the light breeze that old tom decoy sure was a shineing in the sunlight...even with my best calls i could not entice anything... i stayed till 8.30 had to do some work did not get to go back this evening but gona go again in the morning if i dont oversleep.boy this getting up early and chaseing turkeys is wearing me out... charlie