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Day 5 (Mar 25) - Mike Leonard's Deep
Swamp Hunt
Afternoon Hunt
 Mike
Leonard, returned to the cypress swamp with David Mills. They set up a
Double Bull blind and a decoy at the edge of the swamp, not far from an
orange grove. This was the first time MIke had used the blind.
David
began calling, he used a new Woodhaven aluminum slate call. He called every
30 minutes.
Right
at 5:00 Mike saw a gobbler duck under the fence to his right, 15 yards
away ... and strut. It moved toward the blind, stopped, and walked away.
Mike
elbowed David and but didn't get his attention. The gobbler turned back
towards the decoy and stopped 4 yards from the blind and spit and drummed,
facing the jake decoy and turned his back and took a few steps away. Mike
aimed and shot the longbeard (shotgun).
This
is Mike's first Osceola. We took his picture and then he packed for the
drive home and the opening day of the Georgia wild turkey season. (Mike,
here is a picture of you
and your gobbler that you can print and also put on your computer
as wallpaper.
Morning Hunt
 Mike
Leonard, owner of Outdoor Traditions in Dawsonville, Georgia is hunting
with us. He and David Mills went to a Cypress swamp. A Tom gobble several
times in the dark. After daylight broke David did 2 fly down cackles and
used a turkey wing to simulate the fly down sound.
The
Tom got fired up and gobbled repeatedly. David called intermittently, keeping
him fired up. They heard 3 birds fly down and the gobbling came closer,
to within 100 yards.
They
waited as the Tom continued to gobble.
After
an hour the gobbles stopped. They waited another hour and decided to go
into the swamp. They waded through water. David saw yellow flowers and
went to them. It was dry land. Once there they heard a gobble. They moved
toward it, stopping every few yards. Gobbles continued.
The
area became very thick and they had to crawl. Soon the gobbles got louder,
they were getting closer. They came to uprooted oak trees and had to stop.
The bird was within 20 yards.
Mike
slowly stood up. The gobbles were very close right in front of him. MIke
could not see through the limbs of the tree but had his eye on two places
where he could shoot. He stopped gobbling.
Minutes
ticked by and the Tom gobbled 75 yards away. They attempted to circle and
catch up but the gobbles were over.
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