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
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