"Trainwreck"........and a bully hen..update-oh yeah!!!

[Guru]

What a morning!!  Set up on the edge of a vineyard that the birds usually work there way down to after roosting up on the hillside.Didn't get a chance to roost last night so I was hopefull they would be around.

No gobbling for a while(overcast,and misty).Then a bird gobbles,but not way up on the hillside,but about 100yds away just above the vineyard.Oh baby!!!

 As it's getting lighter,I can see a hen in a tree,and he is gobbling every one in while.Finally she starts calling in the tree,fires him up,and he flys down about 6:10.My first impression is that he looks like he got hit by a train!! The most beat up looking gobbler I've ever seen.Matted fron the overnight rain,but his tail was just a mess!! 4-5 completely broken tailfeathers,and a couple bent and hanging....But I wanted him!!He hits the ground,and just strutts right next to her,waiting for her to fly down. Finally she does,she sails down into the vineyard off to my rightabout100yds away and he starts down the hill.He's heading toward her,to the right,then all of a sudden he turns and heads right for me.I figured my sweet talking was doing the trick,but....all of a sudden,into my shooting window comes an unseen hen.10yds heading for the dekes,and he's coming too.She gets real agressive with the one hen deke,and he's within 5yds of the blind.But I can't see him,he's too close to see out of the horizontal viewing windows........ Gotta take my son outside to play....I'll be back later with the rest and pics..................

[manyletters]

Man...I don't even hunt turkeys and this is getting me going...and now the rest of the story...pleeeez!!

[AZStickman]

We're waitin Curt....  :D  Terry

[Meathook]

I am going to start hunting all these guys that drag these stories out so long.   :rolleyes:

[Shawn Leonard]

COME ON!!!!!!!

SHAWN

[manyletters]

Sound of a foot tapping,,,,,,,,waaaaaiiiiiting!!!

[SuperKodiak38]

Curt D@#$^ it! And I liked you boy, until now that is.    

I aint reading no more threads until there at least 3 days old so I can get the whole thing in one sitting.    

[frankb]

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[James Young]

Ok this is only fair from the hog hunt stories of ours from last weekend...    

Man now I know what the other side is like when I don't know the ending..

Come quit teasing us will ya?   Tell us more...

James Young

[Shawn Leonard]

OK, its been over an hour and I got to be up early. Lets do it bro' or I am gonna have to hurt ya!! Shawn

[joe skipp]

Easy Shawn...that's my bow your carrying....at least put it down before ya go off on the guy! Now you know why I quit writing...TOO MANY THREATS!!

[Killdeer]

Well guys, I get up at 4:30...

 

[JasonV]

Aw this just aint right!!!!
C'mon.......

[Sparky]

Arrrrrrrggh...ain't it fun...    

Ya know he kilt sumpin....LOL

Sparky

[Shaun]

Probably tring to figure out that new camara. You know he killed something or he would have had to go to bed by now for tomorrow.

OK, we'll just have to make up the rest of the story... as I recall, the tom was too close to see through the windows...

From the sound of his footsteps, I (Guru) picked a spot and shot right through the fabric of my doubble bull. The razor sharp Snuffer tickled his wattles and he turned red with anger. Right through the little oval window he hops and starts to spur me and whop me with his wings. I grabbed my new neck knife and threw my body on him like a grenade in a foxhole...

[Luke Vander Vennen]

...I plunged the knife into the body of my attacker, time and time again. This seemed only to enrage the mad creature further. Furious, he tried spur me in the thigh. I twisted away, but a split second too late. The sharp talon opened my thigh like a can-opener...

[nick_the_tinkerer]

WOW A JURASIC TURKEY HUNT!!!!!!!  

Cant wait for the pics.....

[frankb]

... so I put on a band aid... went home... suckered my friends into staying awake all night... and then I fell asleep at my keyboard.  

[Jeff U]

Continuing the story while we wait....

As the offending arrow flew past, the turkey realized that was fletched with a wild turkey feather.  Furthermore, its unique pattern appeared to be feathers from his Uncle Tom, who had been missing from the roost since last fall.

Appalled at the thought of his uncle at Thanksgiving, he flew into a rage.  The hunter becomes the hunted.  

I (Guru) was accidentally shot once and now it appeared I was in for a serious bout of whup a$$ from a bird...

[the Ferret]

Wow went out to dinner and didn't miss a thing   :D