April 19 (Thursday)
Finally gonna get decent weather again and I can hunt til about 8:00 only. My pal Haybale is gonna come with me to see if we can do anything with him double team. The first plan is to go in way before daylight and sit in two different spots in that hollow to see if one of us can kill him when his feet hit the ground. Long story short....he aint there. We get back together and talk about the turkey we have been hearing across the cove on the other mountain. We walk down to the pasture to get a good bead on him and he is way high up on the mountain, we both have very little time and figure we wouldnt have 15 minutes to fool with him once we made the long trek so we just listen to him for a minute and brainstorm. We had also heard a turkey just a couple times way down low so we jump in my truck and ride up through the cove and there is ol Crazy out in a big crop field by himself. He was over a rise in the field and we dont see him until we are level with him and we have no choice but to drive on past him and he is still strutting as we do. We drive down and hide the truck and use a privet hedgerow to try and get within 150 yards or so of him. We sneak and sneak and eventually figure out he has vanished again. Off to work. It is starting to get real personal now! Bout to call in professional backup for the next morning!
Last edited by JUGHEAD; 05/01/18 09:45 AM.
