BOWHUNT FOR THE RIO GRANDE
by Robert Hoague

The Last Stand

DAY 3 - Out source

Back At The River Ridge: I could
I had to take my wife Debbie's aunt to the DFW airport. So I got up early enough to, but didn't turkey hunt.

Yesterday, my friend Dickie Wicker invited me to hunt turkeys on his farm. He has been seeing 4 big longbeards regularly and to be sure I would hunt the right place he drove me to the edge of a canyon. I arrived there at 2:45 and set up one of the original Double Bull blinds with 8 shooting windows. I put the blind in the shade of a big oak tree, the only tree around.

and added the Hazel Creek taxidermied jake to the mix.

Those 4 gobblers ignored my calls. Either that, or they just couldn't hear me because of the relentless wind. No other turkeys showed up either. 

But 3 deer walked out of the canyon and looked my area over from higher up the hill. Here's two of them.

It's never an afternoon wasted when you are in deer and wild turkey country. Life is good.

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