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Day #1 At Dave Keiser's Double
K Outfitters 4/14/03
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Dave Keiser drove Keith Bream and Brooks Johnson of Double Bull Archery and me to a field overlooking a canyon and we set up two blinds. (IBrooks was shooting, Keith videoed and tagged along to take pictures) Here's Brooks' blind. Before daybreak we heard several gobblers. They flew down and soon we saw a gobbler and a hen on a distant hillside. A couple of Toms came up to them and the gobbler chased them away. Keith called at the two Toms and they stopped. And then headed our way. One bird moved out front and I got a good pic. And a closer pic of the Tom. A group of hens came out of the canyon, clucking |
away. The Toms stopped just
short of bow range and went after the hens. Here's Keith
Beam in the blind talkin' turkey. You can see a long way up here in
South Dakota and we enjoyed seeing 9 other groups of turkeys on the hillsides
around us. Then we got in Dave's truck and we drove and glassed for gobblers.
We set up twice without any results. The 3rd time was better. We walked
down into a deep canyon and set up in a small opening. Here are Dave
Keiser and Brooks Johnson placing their decoys. Here
is the layout. Then we all scattered for 100 yards and hen called to
make it sound like a bunch of turkeys.
It worked. |
A longbeard strolled
up behind
the blind Keith and I were in and gobbled several times. (Too close to
risk a picture.) The bird drummed and spit and then left. It didn't seen
Brook's decoys because our blind was in the way. Two other Toms came but
the same scenario played again.
After that we returned to camp for lunch. Doug Crabtree was there, he had gone to the capital to get our hunting licenses. We went to a farm and set up near the biggest collection of turkey tracks you can imagine. At roosting time we glassed dozens of gobblers flying up in some cotton wood trees. We will be back there tomorrow. |
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| 05-Gobblers2c.jpg | 06-Gobblers2d.jpg | 07-KeithBream.jpg | 08-Dave-Brooks.jpg |
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