If you hunt public land, and encounter some of these characters that decided to give it a go this year, you’ll realize they watched way more than THP to get them goin. Me and TurkeyJoe had a fella walk an hour in the dark down a peninsula between a big bend in a river in Missouri at 5:30 am. Now this was a mile walk from our truck, where he had to park. He walked down a dead end road, to which we had obviously parked at and went down (there was no other obvious direction to go from the truck).
Guy gets about 10 yards away and I shine my light so I don’t startle him too bad. He’s got everything any turkey video ever shown.....blind, decoys, shooting sticks...now he’s the second person we done turned around that morning. The other guy is halfway back between the trucks down a trail (he showed up at 4:30). This guy has a map open, sweated down, and tells us he’s fixing to go past us to a food plot that’s about 300 yards from where we stand. Which we already know that’s where the turkey is close to from hunting the morning before, or at least that’s what we hope.
Uh...no dude. You parked next to 2 trucks and walked down in here to someone who got there 2 hours before you got there. You need to go the other way back to the truck. Didn’t you see the other guy too?
Reply back was he didn’t flash his light at me.
Folks.....
If someone has a truck parked there when you get there, they are there first. Let them hunt. If there are 2 trucks parked there. There ain’t no more room. If you can’t get up to get there first, go somewhere else or take up golf as a hobby. You can book tee times and ride a dadgum cart to where you are going.
