Well guys I got pretty lucky this year. My farm is 70 miles away and I haven't had a chance to scout for turkeys this year. I just went off of previous experience and hoped they were in the area. Every year it seems like I have more and more stuff to take turkey hunting? A lot more than deer hunting. Anyway, I tote out the decoys, blind, seat, bow, turkey calls and walk a half mile to my hopeful location. Roughly 5:45 in the morning and an owl hoot's off and makes 2 to 3 turkeys shock gobble in the timber below me. I couldn't have felt more lucky. I get the blind up and set the decoys out in my death triangle with the B-Mobile in the middle surrounded by 2 hens on each side. I always face the B-Mobile towards the blind and the hens both looking slightly towards each other. My thinking is if a Tom is coming in and the hens are facing him he seems to always hold up out of range but if they aren't looking at him it seems to frustrate him and he'll eventually seal the deal. This is what my gobbler did exactly. The sun starts peaking up and toms are gobbling like crazy. I'm hearing double and triple gobbling. I then realize the gobble is getting closer and I see my first tom gobbling like mad walking up the open pasture towards my setup. He hangs up about 60 yards away gobbling like crazy, strutting and purring. A jake joins him from my left and gives the tom a little confidence to come closer to my setup. He gets within 20 yards and still is a little leery of my B-Mobile so I draw back and slice the rage through him. He lumbers around attempts to fly off into the woods. I wait a bit and try to retrieve him only to find him still alive still trying to get away in some thick buck brush. He flys into a creek and I put another one through him. He destroyed his fan but I was happy nonetheless. I packed up and headed for home at 6:45. Not a bad opening morning. He weighed 20 lbs with 1 inch hooks and a 9 inch beard all exactly on the dot. Definitely not my biggest but I still have 1 more tag to fulfill that.
Greg, I plan on taking my fiancee out Saturday morning for her first ever hunt of anything but there looks to be rain here in NW Mo. I've never had much luck with turkeys in the rain. Good luck Greg.
