WILD TURKEY BOWHUNT IN TENNESSEE
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May 5 - Day 3

AFTERNOON: I drove Fred into the field for the afternoon bowhunt. He set out 4 decoys near the blind. Then I drove away.

During the afternoon hunt 8 hens entered the field. One went to the oldest taxidermied hen and pecked and thrashed it with its wings. Another hen went to the Hazel Creel taxidermied hen and pushed against it and got in its face.  

Fred called a longbeard into the field but when it saw a hen on the opposite side the gobbler went for the real hen. 

MID DAY: Fred put the taxidermied decoys in the sun to dry out and opened the binds so they would dry. Then he took a different blind into the field and set it up on the opposite end of the field from where he was on the first day. This is where we have heard the gobbler and is also where Tom saw the three strutters yesterday.

MORNING: May 5 - Rain! And it was really coming down when the alarm went off at 4:00. I looked through my traveling bag and discovered I had left my rain gear at home.

Fred slogged his way up the slippery hill and set out the decoys. The first gobble was at 8:10, an answer to Fred's calling. It came from the field where he had set up the first day. Half an hour later Fred called again. The gobbler answered right away and he was closer, probably on the edge of the field down the hill from the blind. 

Twenty minutes later a gobble sounded but it was further away and in the direction of the farm house. He gobbled again later on but was further away.

The rain stopped at 9:30. At 10:30 Fred folded up the blind and returned to the farm house.

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