Ontario Canada's first Fall Hunt

**AdrianJHare** · 10-17-2008, 06:30 AM

October 14th was the first day and what a day it was. We spent more time filming and it was hard to work with the birds as the weather was not all that good. High winds, rain and the same day that every leaf on every tree decided to take that long fall to the forest floor.

Well what a start it was on opening morning when Jim and I walked into an old honey hole at the edge of day break and moved into an area that I have seen fall turkeys roost in other years past. As we reached the spot the bust started fast as birds started to fly out of the trees. We ran and did the best we could on the bust and it was no time and we were setup. The birds were not working as planned as the weather was so windy and to hear was near impossible so the birds came together on sight. After a couple moves we got setup and the flock came walking into us with about 4 gobblers in fan. It was something to see, but a shot was not possible as they hit range I could not get the camera on the birds for grass and Poor Ol Jim had to wait it out even if he had the one gobbler in his sights. The wind caused us a lot of problems filming and we decided to give the flock a break and come back in the afternoon, maybe then the wind would drop a bit.
5:00pm we headed out and got back to the same location and worked our way back into the same location the birds were feeding at and got setup. Jim yelped a little before the camera was setup and as I got it running and not even focused yet and I notice a bird coming to wards me and straight to me. I got the camera on the bird, focused and followed it to a point where it stopped and I could not shoot as the camera was in my way. I waited it out for a few minutes and she started to move to the left and still coming into range. At 30 yards she had came to the left enough to allow me to aim a long side of the camera and the 20 gauge roared out once again as I took my first Ontario Fall bird and filmed it all myself.
We got setup again and waited out another bird for Jim. Not long Jim whispers I hear a cluck over to our right and as we turned hear comes a flock of maybe 40 birds walking up to wards us. As they made it into range Jim let loose and down goes his bird a young but great looking Ontario fall bird and a American to take a fall bird in this hunt was what he waited and wanted to do. The camera was rolling but under the cover of leaves the forest was dark but some of the footage is good. We got the birds tagged and headed out for pictures.
Great day and great way to spend in the first fall hunt and yet another great prize to share with friends....

**Muff** · 10-17-2008, 12:11 PM

thats great......where abouts in Ont. are you hunting?

**AdrianJHare** · 10-17-2008, 05:29 PM

Thanks Muff.

I hunt west of Barrie...

**Shaun_300** · 10-17-2008, 08:28 PM

Right on man! Congrats on the birds.

There's no fall season for turkeys around Golden Lake where I hunt (hour and a half west of Ottawa, half hour south of Pembroke, WMUs 48 & 55B) as of yet. I've seen LOTS of turkeys while grouse and deer hunting this fall, so hopefully they'll get a fall season for us within the next couple years.

**Muff** · 10-18-2008, 09:12 AM

how far west???? I deer hunt about 36km south of Owen Sound.

**Tetro** · 10-18-2008, 10:07 AM

Congrats, unfortunately I can't hunt this turkeys this fall in my area 66A, but I have chances of going in 67 but personal choices are keeping me from doing it.