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With McCrea Outdoors at Rocky Creek Ranch
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Hunt Day 3 Morning
and Afternoon -- About
McCrea Outdoors
Kenny McCrea
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On this hunt I am the guest
of Kenny McCrea of McCrea Outdoors out of San Angelo, Texas. We are hunting
on the 25,000 acre Rocky Creek Ranch.
Rocky Creek Ranch is one
of McCrea Outdoors 55,000 acres of prime whitetail deer, turkey and quail
hunting in West Central and North Texas. The ranches are game managed for
quality game for hunting.
For Hunt Information
Contact Kenny or Eric McCrea
McCrea Outdoors,
P.O. Box 1802, San Angelo, Texas 76902
Phone 325-650-9960 or 325-234-7404
Email: mccrea@mccreaoutdoors.com
Web: mccreaoutdoors.com |
Day
2 - Afternoon - A Bad Haircut Day
Roy Keefer left a note for
us on the kitchen table, it said he "gave a tom a "Haircut" and he was
going back out. Kenny and I met Eric McCrea at Nachos for lunch (I like
this place). Eric had talked to Roy. He explained that Roy had shot high
and his arrow went through the top feathers of a longbeard, on video no
less. Roy said this particular shot was a "Haircut".
 If
you're acquainted with Roy than you know he is a master of the one liner
or one word quip. He can say something very funny, that would take us normal
people several minutes to say. The "Turkey Haircut" is an example of his
off the wall sense of humor.
But it was going to be even
more meaningful later in the day.
Late afternoon the turkey
flood gate opened up and dozens of hens walked through the area. And
gobblers too.
Two 2-year old gobblers walked
past the decoy without acknowledging it. (No gobblers had come to out decoy(s)
and some had buggared on it so we decided not to use it any more.) We'd
seen older toms than these and held out.
I called and another gobbler
came in, but he didn't act like he was responding to the calls, I think
he was just out walked around. I took a couple of pictures of him and he
saw the camera and putted. The tom moved away, leaving me shotless.
I closed up all the
shooting windows and left the 4 horizontal mesh windows open. That way
we could see what was happening and open a shooting window when we needed
it.
Soon a tom with a thin beard
walked smack down the trail toward us.
First, Kenny got his video
tripod into position. Then I opened a shooting window, as normal the bird
didn't notice it. Kenny took its picture and started the video. Quarters
were tight, I was on my knees and gripped the handle of my bow and guided
the bottom limb past the tripod leg.
Putt !!!
The tom ran away. But it
wasn't over yet...
We didn't have to
wait long. A brush beard tom walked past the blind. I opened a window and
took a picture. Kenny made a slit in his window and free handed the video
camera into it. I drew and eased into the shooting window. The tom saw
something he wasn't comfortable with and started walking. I gave him a
terrible by mouth kee kee, but it was ok enough to make him stop. He stood
up tall and turned half broadside ... I shot.
It was high and the tom flew
to the woods and checked out. It was "Turkey Haircut" number two of the
day.
No birds roosted in our
tree today. We decided to hunt another area tomorrow morning, we'd put
a lot of pressure on this one.
After we ate dinner we all
watched Roy Keefer's video of his "haircut." Both our gobblers were non
the worse for them.
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