Thursday May 4 th 2017 Minnesota spring turkey season...
4:15 p.m. 2 nd day of a week long hunt.
Birds wanted ZERO to do with calls or decoys..
So I set up to get in front of them.
While hunting day 1 noticed birds working around a thin brush finger of a big woods corner..a farmer Had a mini backhoe working the field edges on day one removing those shaggy trees that grew up and he piled them up on the point of the thin brush corner.
So I went in and opened up the middle of the wood pile and greened it in.
a perfect spot on point with farm fields 3/4 around me.
crawled into my hide at 4:40 pm 10 minutes later I hear a putt behind me..a hen..she walked off
5 pm the show began..
Had 2 monster toms doing the puff n strut spitting and hissing at each other.2 steps and fan snap open 2 steps and fan snap open..etc.Puff Puff Puff.
They came out of the woods 200 yards down the edge..Took them an hour to get to 40 yards almost in my lap.
By that time i was a wreck..HaHa..it was dead calm no wind quiet..
..and the sound of their tails snapping open was pretty cool...
At 40 yards I had the gun up waiting for them to close the last 10 yards..When!
out of the corner of my left i I see dark blobs 1,2,3,4,5 oH rats! they flanked me and their at 20 yards off my left shoulder.
I took a quick glance and their all toms with 9 inch or better brushes.
I swing the flinter left first 2 birds move forward 3,4,5 stop..then 3 moves forward and 4,5 are still bunched up 4 moves forward into
my opening..I take a bead and touch off.....Nothing but a black powder cloud surrounding the general area..start my internal
chant..please be down..please be down etc...finally the smoke dissipates and its turkey dinner time!
Those 5 toms were going to join the fray...couldn't say no...
my buddy(Spike Buck) that's local also on the lease had 28 toms walk by him single file last fall shortly after fly down Late Oct bow deer
season..He knows I'm gullible..and I had a hard time digesting that tale..till the next day I had 15 toms walk by....
These two monster toms gave me a show I'll never forget....
And I feel grateful to have seven toms in front of me while hunting in the spring....More than outstanding...Another red letter day!
Thursday May4 th.
doa 6 pm @ 28 yards
brush pile turned turkey hide..
tail front to back
9 inch beard
My flintlock and day bag..
1 1/16 inch spurs
19 pounds
12 ga. T/C New Englander converted by me to flintlock(my back-up Fowler) and my first that hooked me on Blackpowder in 2009
My 10 ga. Robin's fowler was giving me A.D's so I cased it.
# 4 hevi-shot
95 gr. FF Goex
Null -b prime= Bang flop!
4:15 p.m. 2 nd day of a week long hunt.
Birds wanted ZERO to do with calls or decoys..
So I set up to get in front of them.
While hunting day 1 noticed birds working around a thin brush finger of a big woods corner..a farmer Had a mini backhoe working the field edges on day one removing those shaggy trees that grew up and he piled them up on the point of the thin brush corner.
So I went in and opened up the middle of the wood pile and greened it in.
a perfect spot on point with farm fields 3/4 around me.
crawled into my hide at 4:40 pm 10 minutes later I hear a putt behind me..a hen..she walked off
5 pm the show began..
Had 2 monster toms doing the puff n strut spitting and hissing at each other.2 steps and fan snap open 2 steps and fan snap open..etc.Puff Puff Puff.
They came out of the woods 200 yards down the edge..Took them an hour to get to 40 yards almost in my lap.
By that time i was a wreck..HaHa..it was dead calm no wind quiet..
..and the sound of their tails snapping open was pretty cool...
At 40 yards I had the gun up waiting for them to close the last 10 yards..When!
out of the corner of my left i I see dark blobs 1,2,3,4,5 oH rats! they flanked me and their at 20 yards off my left shoulder.
I took a quick glance and their all toms with 9 inch or better brushes.
I swing the flinter left first 2 birds move forward 3,4,5 stop..then 3 moves forward and 4,5 are still bunched up 4 moves forward into
my opening..I take a bead and touch off.....Nothing but a black powder cloud surrounding the general area..start my internal
chant..please be down..please be down etc...finally the smoke dissipates and its turkey dinner time!
Those 5 toms were going to join the fray...couldn't say no...
my buddy(Spike Buck) that's local also on the lease had 28 toms walk by him single file last fall shortly after fly down Late Oct bow deer
season..He knows I'm gullible..and I had a hard time digesting that tale..till the next day I had 15 toms walk by....
These two monster toms gave me a show I'll never forget....
And I feel grateful to have seven toms in front of me while hunting in the spring....More than outstanding...Another red letter day!
Thursday May4 th.
doa 6 pm @ 28 yards
brush pile turned turkey hide..
tail front to back
9 inch beard
My flintlock and day bag..
1 1/16 inch spurs
19 pounds
12 ga. T/C New Englander converted by me to flintlock(my back-up Fowler) and my first that hooked me on Blackpowder in 2009
My 10 ga. Robin's fowler was giving me A.D's so I cased it.
# 4 hevi-shot
95 gr. FF Goex
Null -b prime= Bang flop!
