Runningfool
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- SW Ontario
Well my season came to an end at 9:30 this morning. What and incredible season...helped 2 apprentice hunters (one was my 14 year old daughter, the other the 14 year old daughter of a friend) harvest their first spring birds and tagged out myself. I honestly don't know if I will ever have a better year.
Today. This guy had proved elusive all season. He just wouldn't leave the bush he was in and since I didn't have permission to hunt the woods, there was no going after him and I had to draw him out. I thought I had his number Saturday afternoon when he popped out at 60yds and gobbled and strutted like a bird possessed but never came any closer. I was set up by 5 am today, heard gobbling 25 minutes later, and he showed himself at 7am, strutting and gobbling 100yds out. He went back in the bush 10 minutes later, still gobbling but out of sight. Things got quiet for the next 2 hours and I wondered if this was another day of him doing his thing in the bush all day.
At about 9am I saw a large hen step into the field very close to where the tom had disappeared. She was heading away from me so I gave a few yelps in hopes that she would come down my way. She didn't but the yelps fired up that gobbler in the bush again. A bit of back and forth chit chat and he stepped out at about 90 yards and started heading my way. He was wary and took his time. At 40 yds I made the shot and at 9:25am my 2017 wild turkey season was over.
These birds are magnificent and I respect them more than any non-hunter could understand. I would like to thank all of those people involved in re-establishing wild turkeys in this province; I am forever in their debt and hope I am repaying some small part of that by introducing new people to this wonderful world of wild turkey hunting.
Hope you enjoy the video:
Today. This guy had proved elusive all season. He just wouldn't leave the bush he was in and since I didn't have permission to hunt the woods, there was no going after him and I had to draw him out. I thought I had his number Saturday afternoon when he popped out at 60yds and gobbled and strutted like a bird possessed but never came any closer. I was set up by 5 am today, heard gobbling 25 minutes later, and he showed himself at 7am, strutting and gobbling 100yds out. He went back in the bush 10 minutes later, still gobbling but out of sight. Things got quiet for the next 2 hours and I wondered if this was another day of him doing his thing in the bush all day.
At about 9am I saw a large hen step into the field very close to where the tom had disappeared. She was heading away from me so I gave a few yelps in hopes that she would come down my way. She didn't but the yelps fired up that gobbler in the bush again. A bit of back and forth chit chat and he stepped out at about 90 yards and started heading my way. He was wary and took his time. At 40 yds I made the shot and at 9:25am my 2017 wild turkey season was over.
These birds are magnificent and I respect them more than any non-hunter could understand. I would like to thank all of those people involved in re-establishing wild turkeys in this province; I am forever in their debt and hope I am repaying some small part of that by introducing new people to this wonderful world of wild turkey hunting.
Hope you enjoy the video:
