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DAY
3
MORNING - Lots Of Action
For Fred
Fred and Doug returned
to the Gate area and set up their Double Bull Matrix blind. Distant gobbles
came from the river and then scattered gobbles from other directions told
them the toms were off the roost and looking for hens.
Doug called off and on as
the morning passed. He was working a gobbler and turned the opposite direction
so it would sound like the hen was leaving. Surprise, from that direction
came several gobbles. These gobblers were fired up.
Five gobblers ducked under
the gate and walked briskly to the blind. Fred saw a 10 yard shot coming
up and picked one that was clear of the other birds. The Matrix mesh was
up on this side (for a shooting window) but where Fred had to aim there
was a wrinkle in the fabric. He aimed carefully through the wrinkle and
touched his release trigger.
High right. Real high.
Fred concluded that it was
some visually goof up on his part due to the wrinkly mesh. The gobblers
were still standing around. Fred took a second shot.
High again.
A third shot opportunity
a little further yielded the same result. Once the birds were gone Fred
broke the blind down and went to my house. Something was wrong.
Fred shot 5 arrows at my
Cube target. A tight group, 12 inches high and 3 inches left. Yikes! He
checked his rest and sight, readjusted them and got it shooting like he
always shoots.
Afternoon - The Point
- Day 3
Fred Lutger hunted
the Gate again and saw 2 hens. Doug Crabtree roosted some birds
along the river, half a mile north west from the roost area we have been
hunting.
THE POINT - Something New
Putting the decoys near the
blind doesn't seem to be working right now. They look at them but won't
get close to them so I'm switching tactics today and putting them
50 yards away, and instead of being in the open I put them in some brush.
(It's worth a try. If something isn't working you have to do something
else.) Here are the decoys.
Today I've got the T-2 Double
Bull blind. It has shooting windows and horizontal mesh, viewing windows.
After getting squared away
I called on the aluminum Woodhaven slate. I thought I heard a faint gobble!
I yelped a short volley and
shut up. Yea, I heard a gobble.
I cranked it out on the aluminum
slate for a minute and stopped. The next gobble was within 200 yards. I
closed the blind's windows in back of me as they hammered down on gobbles.
There they were, along the fence in front of me.
I clicked my camera on and
caught them as they came into full view. There are 4 in this picture but
there were more behind them.
They turned in my direction
and walked closer. I got another picture.
My brain said, "get your
bow," but I couldn't resist this picture at 10 yards.
I swapped the Sony for the
BowTech and hooked my release on the string loop. The red heads walked
to the left of my blind. I had a window open to cover that contingency
and drew. My pin was slightly ahead of the closest one. I tried to adjust
and get it in his body but his next step put him behind some cedar limbs.
This picture cost me. But
it's a good one. Here it is in wallpaper
size for your computer.
I heard lots more gobbles
but none came to me. Ahhhh yes, it was a swell afternoon in the turkey
woods.
For Dinner Doug made another
specialty,
Cabbage and jalapeno deer sausage. It was unreal good. It's embarrassing
to think how much I ate. Ummmm good again!
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