Gobbler down....

[dogdoc]

April 6th marked opening day of turkey season in Oklahoma. The morning started off slow--just a few distant gobbles on neighboring property but nothing close by. I decide to go ahead and sit in my pop-up on the edge of my Hamann Farms food plot. The woods started coming alive with gobbling at around 8am. Some light yelping and clucks immediately brought in 3 jakes to my position. Those 3 young teenagers were fired up--gobbling everytime I yelped at them. they kept circling around the blind looking for the hen. One of the jakes got so frustrated he just pretended a hen was there and started breeding the ground---was pretty funny. The jakes hung around for about 30 minutes----I could here a few more distant gobbles--they would gobble at my yelp calling but just couldn't get them to come it. finally the jakes left and I would do a few yelps/clucks every 10 minutes. About 45 minutes later I finally got a couple responses from my calling---and then the rain started. I continued calling about every 3 minutes and would get a gobble everytime. I just assumed it was the jakes returning when all of a sudden a hen entered the field. She started doing some soft yelps and so I started imitating her yelps. That did it--the gobblers couldn't hold back any more and came running to the area. they entered the plot about 70 yards away and just hung there for about 10 minutes--the hen continued to feed and then started to leave the plot---i kind of started to panic as the toms were following her. i started to do some aggressive calling and the hen changed positions and started coming right to me. The 2 toms eventually got within 30 yards but they were so close together I couldn't get a clean shot on just one. Finally they seperated at about 40 yards and I picked one out--and the Mossberg 835/Federal #5 did the trick!

I got the entire hunt on video--will try to upload the video today or tomorrow and get it posted--so for now all I have is pics.





18.5#, 9 13/16" beard, rt spur 15/16, lt spur 7/8"

todd

[deerhunter10]

Great story and even greater bird!
Congratulations!
Can't wait to see the video!

[Ohiobucks]

Way to go Todd, congrats on an opening day bird!!

[buckbuster11]

Thats awesome...congrats on the opening day bird!!

[Covehnter]

Awesome story and good bird too! Congratulations!

[redbeard]

Congratulations, pretty feathers on that Rio.

[RyanH]

Sweet deal! Congrats! Thats a good looking bird!

Also That plot looks GREAT!

Congrats on your hunt!

[Gator]

Way to go Todd!!!! I'm gonna try this evening, some of us have to work ya know!!!

So when am I supposed to meet you out there????

[hobie]

Congrats on an awesome bird

[NS whitetail]

way to go Todd

I will make it down there some year I hope

[lil hunter]

good job there doc. Nice gobbler.

[Rhino]

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One of the jakes got so frustrated he just pretended a hen was there and started breeding the ground---was pretty funny.

todd

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That's what we call the curly shuffle down here todd.

Pretty funny sight to see huh?

Congrats on a great hunt and a very nice gobbler.

[JoshM]

awesome storry!...great bird

[rutnroy]

way too go dogdoc, way to hang in there. i like the food plot,looks nice and green. it's pretty brown up here in wis. right now. that was an awesome video last year , can't wiat to see this one.

[outdoorgirl]

congrats Todd .....love the turkey head on the rock pic....