My last day jake

[Nick]

I only had 2 days to turkey hunt because of my job this year. I hunt state land and this year they made the unit that I hunt in bigger so that allowed more people to hunt the state land. I ended up getting the last hunt and after being hunted hard for 3 weeks straight, it made the hunting very difficult and frustrating. The first morning I only heard 2 gobbles right at fly down and not a thing the rest of the day. I set up in 4 different spots throughout the day with no luck. I drove around glassing the fields and the turkey behavior seemed out of season. There were toms flocked together with no hens, hens flocked together...and no strutting at all. It was almost as if they were in their winter routine. Tuesday morning I went to a different spot and heard a bird that was hot off the roost about 400 yards away. I closed the distance to about 60 yards and sat down and told my uncle to sit about 80 yards behind and do some calling. After sitting for 15 minutes a hen started to carry on in the roost so I mocked everything she did. Finally the gobbler flew down and stood on a ridge about 70 yards away gobbling at everything. Pretty soon 2 more long beards made their way onto the ridge with him and we had them gobbling at everything for about 15 minutes. Then as luck would have it, they started some machinery up at the junk yard on the other side of the woods and the birds spooked. As I was letting my temper get to me, I glanced to my left to see 4 different birds scooting by. I couldnt tell weather they were hens or toms....so I hit the call and just as I did...they made a u-turn and came right in. I seen they were all jakes but knew I probably wouldnt have another opportunity, so I shot the strutter. He wasnt a monster but I was happy with him and he will taste good.

[need2hunt]

Congrats Nick!

[turkeygirl]

Way to go Nick! Nothing wrong with that! I got a jake also...still hoping to fill my 2nd tag though. Way to score one for the team! How much did he way? Mine was 15 pounds which I thought was decent sized for a jake.

[Nick]

The best I could do as far as weight, was weigh myself on the bathroom scale, then weigh myself holding the bird and subtracting the difference. And I got 15# on this one as well.