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Illinois Bowhunt For Easterns
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Guides Bob McNeff
and Fred Lutger
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for its trophy whitetail buck operation they also have spring wild turkey
hunts guided by Fred & Bob McNeff.
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Second Day
Robert - Lots of gobbles
around me this morning. My Pro Ears were picking up ones way in the distance
too. A lone hen flew down into the field from up the hill and walked into
the woods. The gobbles got distant. Nothing else happened and I moved to
the closest corner of the field so I could see more of the surrounding
area.
At 11:12 I answered
a deep toned gobble. We went back and forth as the booming gobbles got
closer. He walked out of the woods and looked at my decoys and and strutted
up. Then he looked into the field and back at my decoys, and back and forth.
I checked the field. Yikes!
Hens were hens on the far side.
  
I called at the gobbler
and that held him in place for a while.
But eventually he went to
the hens. Three jakes were with the 3 hens and the boss gobbler took over
the show.
The turkeys moved parallel
to the far edge and the rope beard gobbler strutted his stuff.
A jake strutted up to the
rope beard and the "boss" chased him around. The hens fed all the time.
After over an hour of strutting and doing his boss gobbler thing the rope
beard walked away from the group. I yelped and cut at him. He came closer
and I got a better picture. This is a ground dragger, fat Tom turkey. And
he was through wasting his time with this group.
He turned and strolled up
the hill close to the road I walked down. But the show was not over, in
fact a very cool new show was about to begin.
The 3 jakes started chasing
each other and one jumped into the air and dug his spurs into a jake. I
started taking pictures and made a Photo Gallery of them for ya. Enjoy...
I took the first picture
of these birds at 11:19 and the last at 12:45. Fred wanted me to hunt another
area tomorrow and I carried out the blind and gear at 1:00.
Fred Lutger - Fred
heard the most gobbling ever. A dozen toms gobbled in the trees. Fred called
(with the Aluminum Woodhaven slate) and it got constant answers. Three
gigantic longbeards crossed the creek and stayed behind the blind. Fred
closed all the blinds window except one to the decoy, He had his bow in
hand, waiting for them to walk around to the decoy. Two more toms gobbled
in the creek bottom and the 3 toms went to them.
Fred opened a shooting space
in his T5 blind to see the field and saw a jake and hen crossing the field.
Gobbles continued until 1:00.
Doug Crabtree - Doug
was sick and didn't hunt
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