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Bowhunt For The Rio Grande,
by
Robert Hoague
First
Rio Hunt | 2nd Rio Hunt |
With
a rio grande yet to get I'm digging in...
TUESDAY Apr 26
Morning
Before daylight I popped
up my Double Bull T-5 between the dry up pond and the cow pasture boundary
fence. At 7:20 I had the Pro Ears on and picked up a gobble to the east
on the far side of the cow pasture. That's not a way that the turkeys normally
come but I looked anyway.
Some turkeys crested the
cow pasture hill 600 yards away. They were coming in my general direction
so I closed the blind's window on the west side and focused my binoculars
on them.
They were already half way
across the field. A hen was in the lead and in a big hurry. Five gobblers
were following and they broke into a run. I grabbed my camera and turned
it on. The birds were already on the opposite side of the pond. I took
the first picture
The hen stopped at the beginning
of the trees and some of the gobblers strutted. A few minutes later the
hen went on the move again.
She hurried along the edge
of the pond and the gobblers followed.
Once clear of the pond the
hen switched directions. The right way. Toward me. I looked like she would
pass on my left side.
The gobblers stopped at
the trees by the pond.
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Oh, Oh, the hen hooked a
left and passed a few yards from the blind. She was headed for the fence.
The gobblers moved quickly and cut her off.
The hen turned again and
went along the fence, with the gobblers following. I estimated the distance
to where they would pass as 25 yards. I opened a T-5 window on the fence
side. They were walking and that is not a good thing, I needed them to
stop. I made two kee kee whistles with my mouth. The lead gobbler stopped.
I drew and he started walking. I made another kee kee and he stopped. I
put my pin on him and shot. But he was already in motion again. The arrow
was unnoticed and they continued after the hen.
I'm only 80 yards from the
Gate and the whole bunch ducked under the fence and went right past my
blind. Here is a picture of a gobbler by the rusty, metal trough you' saw
in pics of the deer yesterday.
Don Beckwith:
The Duck got to his blind on the west side of the little lake. He set out
3 decoys at the edge of the lake to try to get the turkeys closer to the
blind. Early on, a hen walked down from the dam and went between the decoys.
Gobbles sounded from the
Dam. Three big longbeards strutted into view on the dam, spinning, spitting
and drumming -- 35 yards from Don. When they finally came off the dam they
came out of strut and walked briskly through the edge of the water on the
far side of the decoys and hen. They went to a high spot 40 yards away
and strutted and gobbled again.
The hen went to them and
they all went to the north.
Afterward, Don moved his
blind 10 yards closer to the dam and brushed it in.
Afternoon
Since I'm not doing any
good at the Point I hunted at the gate this afternoon. A minute after I
stepped in the blind a hen walked out of the woods and walked by the blind.
That looked promising and I got my bow and waited. But no gobbler came.
Not then, nor later.
Don Beckwith: The
Duck set up a blind at the Dry Tank and stayed there until 5:00. Then he
drove to his Pool Dam stand. He sat a hen decoy 10 yards from the Double
Bull blind. In 30 minutes he heard a gobble from the river area and worked
him. The gobbler moved around the area gobbling for 40 minutes before leaving.
An hour later a hen came
to the little lake and drank water on the far side and left. The sun got
low and a big jake came to the little lake, drank, and flew across and
over the dam. Don called.
Gobbles!
Three big longbeards gobbled
and strutted their way toward the lake, broke strut and drank water. A
hen came out of a ditch and flew across the lake. The gobblers flew across
the lake and cut off the hen and herded her onto the dam. The three strutted
on the dam and dogged the hen.
Afterward, a big white headed
gobbler came out on the dam and strutted until the shadows got long.
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