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At Home - 2006
JANUARY 2007 January 2 - Part #3:
Look, Up In The Sky
An hour later I was lunched and re-washed and sitting in my blind at the Point. So far things were going real good, but the rocket was going even higher this afternoon. With no warning -- not a
peep or a scratch -- a group of wild turkeys walked into view along the
opposite side of the fence. I looked for beards and didn't see any ...
yet. But there were lots more coming. I took a picture, the time display
read 3:16.
More wild turkeys. Ones with
red heads. I put the Nikons on them. Some had beards too. I counted 8 of
them working along through the trees some 100 yards away. Then I zoomed
in on them and took a pic. The time display read 4:58. They were river
bound. I was definitely not on their route.
A few quick cuts made my only taker change course and walk in my direction. Two more fell in with him and then the others queued up several yards behind them. I shut up! The 3 in
the lead walked across the road and I took my last picture.
All 8 gobblers spread out in the immediate area looking for the source of the sound. There were beards of different lengths and I tried to keep up with them as I turned on the Spott-Hogg sight light and hooked up the FlatHead. Yikes, four of the gobblers had walked back to the road and started toward the river. A kee kee stopped the remaining ones in my shooting window and I drew. The bright green top pin floated into the vital area of the one with the longest beard. I held it there to be sure the shot would go where I wanted it to and touched the trigger on the FlatHead. And heard that unmistakable sound a broadhead making contact with the hard feathers of a wild turkey. All 4 gobblers took to the air in the same direction, towards where I had first seen them, flying about 20 feet off the ground. My eyes were riveted on the one I shot. It began loosing altitude compared to the other birds. Suddenly it gave out and fell out of the sky with one wing straight up. My gobbler was down. I mentally marked the tree it was over and range findered the tree, 102 yards. With only an hour to go I waited until hunting time was over in case some deer came to the Point. But they didn't. That was ok. Two wild turkeys in the same day was a bell ringer in my book. In the fading light I walked to the area where the gobbler had fallen out of the air. I looked hard and it got black dark. But I could not find him. I drove home with mixed emotions. My shot looked good. The gobbler gave it up in flight. Could he have landed in a tree? Did I walk by him? Or did he have some more go left when he hit the ground? I'd be back first thing tomorrow. To Be Continued...
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