Turkey Lurkey Do and Turkey Lurkey Die
Ok, I’m going to ruin this story. . . so that I can warn anyone who may not want to see a dead turkey, you might want to skip the last image in this post. It’s the fourth picture- just the quintessential over the shoulder picture)
Since, you can tell where this story is going, Turkey Season began on April 1st and ended, for us, on April 3rd. Even though it was super short, it has been one of the best! We’ve turkey hunted now for at least five years without much of a clue what we’re doing and no “success”. But, are totally hooked!
Cody hooked up with a Turkey Expert named David. A week before the season started, they went out to the deer lease and scouted. Cody came back more excited than ever for Turkey Season to begin and shared with me all sorts of things he learned. He made arrangements to meet David at the deer lease Thursday and Friday to call turkeys, show us the ropes, etc.
Wednesday evening as we headed to the deer lease, David called to see if we were going to go out the deer lease to “Put a Turkey to Bed”. . . Once he explained what he meant, we did. I snapped this picture of Cody and I hanging out on the tailgate listening for roosting turkeys with my iphone.
My iphone was the only thing I took with me hunting the next couple of days though I didn’t take any shots of us hunting because I didn’t want to move and mess anyone up. We walked a lot, we learned a lot. We started at six in the morning and didn’t stop until early afternoon.
Thursday, we had the amazing experience of watching a hen walk less than 12 feet in front of us down the road while we weren’t in any sort of cover. The hen just walked right on by as David talked to her. She walke dby David, myself, and Cody, then into the woods about 10 feet away from Cody. Too Super Cool!
We met another new Turkey hunter as we caught up with Scottie just after the hen experience. (I grabbed my good camera which was in the truck to capture this image while sitting in the truck).
Despite being super tired and hot, the two experiences together along with all that we were learning, made us so thankful we get to do things like Turkey Hunting. Thursday night, we went back out to “Put a Bird to Bed” though it was really to windy. It was a beautiful night and as the sun went down the stars came out in all their beauty.
Friday was windy and we didn’t hear a turkey all day! But, that didn’t mean the learning stopped. Just an amazing couple of days. You know, folks learn to deer hunt from other folks and I think the same is true of Turkey Hunting which, at least around here, is much more difficult. (Cody and I both recognize the value of leanring more about our hobbies)
Saturday, we went out with Chris and set out to use the knowledge we’d gained. After locating some turkeys with our new owl call, we set up. Chris began calling and sure enough, here came a turkey- the turkey would become Cody’s first.
So, now, officially Cody’s turkey season is over- he can only get one in our one month season. I think we’ll probably go back out there later just to keep learning and gaining experience though. Today on the way home I had to laugh when Cody said that all the talk of his turkey season being over made him start putting May on things instead of April.
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