2008 WI gobbler

**slughunter** · 04-23-2008, 11:26 PM

This post is a little late. I wanted to wait until I had a picture to go with the story.

Wed-4/16/2008:

Got out to the set-up right on time, things were looking good. I walked my grandpa to his spot then headed a little further to mine. Got my 2 hen decoys out in the feild and I sat against the same tree I have for 5 years strait now. After a little wile the birds started yelping then the gobblers started going off. I counted 8 in the direct area. They gobbled for a good while then I could hear them start to fly down into the feild. I wasnt able to get a visual on any of them but knew they had to be close to my grandpa. BOOOM! One shot from my grandpa left me confident that he had made the shot count. The time was 5:55am when he fired. After the gobbleing went on 5 hens flew into the feild about 400 yards away. They fed around for a while and made their way over the hill. The time is now 6:30am and some slight movement to my right has cought my attention. All the sudden a coyote takes off running at my decoys, grabs one, shakes it around, drops it, and runs off. A cool experience in itself. After a little more waiting a nice size jake drops into the feild about 60 yards away. So in my mind I decide that if he comes in im gonna let him have it. Well as I start to slowly raise my gun, a gobbler takes off running from right next to me, not 5 yards away. He must have come in behind me silently and was headed to the decoys. Well he ran straight away from me, out into the feild. So I brought my gun up on him, clicked the saftey off and pulled the trigger. He dropped and flopped around and final he fell into a big puddle from all the rain we got. So that explains why he looks so ragedy in the picture. He ended up being only about 22 pounds, 1'' hooks, and a 10'' beard. It was one of the coolest things for me to be able to walk over that hill with a turkey on my shoulder and see that my grandpa was just as succesful.

Mine is the one on the left, my grandpas is on the right:

-shane