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IN NEBRASKA
Nebraska:
Day 2 -- Rain, Wind, Cold & Gobblers
Besides the drizzling rain
it was right at freezing and the wind was gusting hard. This morning we
set up at the top of the highest hill to the east of the farm house. From
this vantage point we expected to see some traffic patterns of different
turkey groups. We heard gobbles all along the river in the bottom below
us. Here is a pic of our setup. The weather alternated between drizzle
and rain all morning.
The first turkeys we saw
our for a windy, wet walk appeared like magic below our blind.
A gobble down the ridge
in front of us put me on the Woodhaven aluminum slate. He gobbled again
and after a short silence we saw the gobbler in the tall grass. It was
my turn to shoot and I waited for him to get in range. When he was 18 to
20 yards from me and even closer to the decoys he stopped. His total attention
was on the decoys. It looked all good.
Every single longbeard or
jake so far had walked or ran right to either the Calley Morris taxidermy
jake and hen. Honestly, I figured he would too and waited for the upcoming
8 or 9 yard shot. But he turned and went back the way he came -- leaving
me with two reminders of my own advice to several bowhunters I've hunted
with, "When you've got a shot you can make, take it." And, "It's never
in the bag, it can always fall apart."
Some calls in response to
some gobblers brought a group of jakes an hens view from the valley to
our right. It was raining steadily now. They all soon returned to the trees
below.
Later, more gobbles, and
more aluminum slate lured a small group of jakes from the valley in front
of us.
They came right to our taxidermy
decoy duo and checked them out.
These jakes were bent on
teaching my jake decoy to stay away from them. First they surrounded the
decoy.
I switched my Sony to Video
mode and got video as one of them jumped on the decoy jake's realistically
painted head and made mating gestures. The others pecked and flogged the
jake until it fell over, solidly trounced.
Our next jake visitors left
a group of hens and rushed to our hen decoy.
They examined the decoy
carefully and half an hour after they left we broke down the blind and
went back to the house.
TO THE AFTERNOON HUNT...
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