WILD TURKEY BOWHUNT IN TENNESSEE
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May 3 - Day 1 - Afternoon

Setting Up To Hunt A Strut Zone

AFTERNOON: May 3 - Fred and I drove to the blind he had placed in the field on this morning's hunt and took it down. Then we drove up to the ridge where the gobbler had been for two hours. 

The trees are fully greened on both sides of the road and in some places the road is literally a tunnel through the trees. First, we dropped off the blind, chairs and decoys at a "V" in the road that gave us great visibility of the ridge road. 

We've never been on this property and we wanted to know if this was the road that led to a gate by the county road the house is on. As we drove slowly through the tunnel in the picture below the road took a sharp left turn and a big Tom was standing in the road. He darted into the woods. The road did indeed come out at the county road. 

Using a Hazel Creek taxidermied jake and hen I set the two decoys so the jake was against the hen. This looked very convincing. 

These decoys have stakes in each leg that you stick in the ground. The stakes hold them tight.

Half an hour into the hunt the weather took the turn the weather report said was coming. Lightening and thunder came a calling.

For two hours it poured rain. The time was 7:20 when it stopped. Visibility was fading quickly. We waited 15 minutes and put the decoys in the blind. The walk back to the truck was all down hill. It probably won't be as easy a walk in the morning. 

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