Bird Watcher Posted April 30, 2012 Posted April 30, 2012 One of my friends made his annual trip up to hunt last week. The first day we had a great hunt. We started at daylight on a group of birds, but after about 2 hrs with no sight or sound of them, we thought the birds had moved off to the North. We started moving towards another bird that started gobbling and on our way we glimpsed from afar the birds we had started on originally. They hadn't moved from the last place we heard them gobble and were strutting in an opening for a couple hens. We waited until they started moving and then ran all the way back around the section, close to where we started, put out the strutting decoy and set up to wait. 20 minutes and a couple game plan speeches later, we ended up with this double. It was awesome. They came running to the strutting decoy and started kicking it at 10 yards in front of us. We had talked about each of us shooting the bird on our respective sides, but the birds kept switching as they would run in, flog the decoy, then jump back. We were both a little confused about what bird to shoot. It all worked out though. High fives and smiles all around.
BilletHead Posted April 30, 2012 Posted April 30, 2012 What a hunt Chris! Pat and I hope to do a double someday. We have had lots of pairs and triples come in but not when the both of us had tags open together. BilletHead "We have met the enemy and it is us", Pogo If you compete with your fellow anglers, you become their competitor, If you help them you become their friend" Lefty Kreh " Never display your knowledge, you only share it" Lefty Kreh "Eat more bass and there will be more room for walleye to grow!" BilletHead " One thing in life is for sure. If you are careful you can straddle the barbed wire fence but make one mistake and you will be hurting" BilletHead P.S. "May your fences be short or hope you have long legs" BilletHead
Bird Watcher Posted April 30, 2012 Author Posted April 30, 2012 What a hunt Chris! Pat and I hope to do a double someday. We have had lots of pairs and triples come in but not when the both of us had tags open together. BilletHead Thanks Marty. I know. lots of variables to come together and they were both nice Toms. Just a great hunt and a great hunting memory.
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