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Bowhunt For The Rio Grande,
by
Robert Hoague
First
Rio Hunt | 2nd Rio Hunt | Rocky
Creek Hunt
The
Last Day - A Cliffhanger
SUNDAY May 8 |
TO: Morning Hunt | Afternoon
Hunt
Last
Morning
For the last day of the 2005
season I hunted the same place that it started, on the dam. As I unzipped
the blind's door it turned into a rainy morning. Windy too. Rain started
blowing into the blind on the north side and I closed that side up tight.
This Double Bull Matrix is some cool blind, it protects you from rain too.
It stayed dark a long time
-- except for occasional lightening. Finally at 7:21 there was enough daylight
that a turkey could fly down. Hunting wise, there were no gobbles and no
responses to my calls.
When 8:30 came I walked to
the truck and drove home. My truck thermometer had dropped 12 degrees.
As I started to write this update the turkey meister Rick Philippi phoned
and he got two big toms this morning, one had an 11 1/2" beard and the
other a 10.
AFTERNOON HUNT
Dressed in black and ready
for the last afternoon's turkey hunt I called every 20 minutes beginning
at 3:00pm. Here is a pic of the blind, the Double Bull Matrix 360, on the
curve of the dam. They gotta go by it if they come or go from one side
of the dam or the other.
The water in the pond is
the highest I've ever seen it this year, normally it is way down the bank.
The Duck insists that it is not a pond, but a little lake. And I gotta
admit that this year it is.
Time clicked by and nothing
answered ... until...
Loud and clear at 7:44.
Gobbles ... 2 or 3 birds ... under 100 yards. I closed the Matrix on the
opposite side and got ready, camera in one hand, bow in the other. If they
came fast I'd set the camera down. I called. They gobbled again, closer.
New gobbles rang out down
river, coming closer every gobble. A 3rd gobble rang out across the river.
With nothing to loose in the last 25 minutes of daylight I cranked out
all the turkey talk I know.
I heard a gobbler fly the
river.
I hoped it was the river
he flew ...
The field below the dam is
full of large pecan trees and in seconds three separate groups of gobbles
were jamming the air waves.
More flying.
They were roosting.
My thought were racing. I
had to wait until dark to get my decoy or I might be seen. I needed to
be here 40 minutes before daylight tomorrow.
Knock Knock. Reality calling
... about tomorrow. Today was it for 2005.
I waited until dark to get
the decoy anyway. I'm a firm believer that you never give yourself away.
What a thrilling ending to
the best wild turkey season this bowhunter has ever had.
Thanks for sharing it with
me, friend.
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