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Tom down yesterday in 92a [VIDEO]
Dropped a bird in 92a yesterday morning just after 7am. Just before legal shooting time the woods came alive and there were gobbles all around me. I set up near a corner of the field that has an opening to a well-used game trail that runs along a ridge, connecting a few fields.
First birds to make an appearance are a tom, jake, and two hens. They come out of the trail in the same field as me, but start heading along the opposite treeline. The tom is leading the way and he’s moving fast, no interest in my decoys or calls. The two hens were following the tom, and the jake was locked on to one of the hens, desperately displaying his fan the whole time. After 10min or so tom turns around and marches everyone back into the bush where they came from.
The jake that was locked onto the hen stayed with her and they hung out in the valley to my back. The gobblers were very vocal and kept answering my yelps but one of the hens did not like that one bit and for the next 20min or so she was moving through the bush to my right, behind me, back to my right.. the whole time cackling her head off. The gobbles moved with her and they were all moving fast. The gobblers stopped answering my yelps until I started cackling like the crazy hen and I finally started getting responses.
A little while passes and a hen heads into my decoys. Pecking around and moving cautiously. A tom came up silently from the valley directly behind me. I had no idea he was there until I looked out the left window of my blind and saw him at 8 or so yards. He displayed his fan for a while but his insecurities got the worst of him and he charged for my jake decoy. I let him display his dominance for a while before lights out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3LUbj1QXRo
22.7 lbs
11.25” beard
1.25” spurs
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