Started off the day with Buckhunter's bird. We took off up the hill at approx 5:20 am stopping every few yards to give a few hoots on the owl locator. After hearing gobbling several hundreds yards up the hill we worked our way to just behind the rise from where we thought the turkeys were roosted. With the decoys set, our first few yelps were met with several birds gobbling. I continued to call as Buckhunter whispered to me that he could see birds coming. I didn't know it at the time but these birds were running to us! The first Jakes reached me and the decoys standing about 15 yards off my gun barrel. I knew Buckhunter had let the two pass in hopes of something bigger. It was then I saw what he was waiting for. A nice trio of Toms was strutting just out of range of his gun. I kept my sites on the Jakes as I waited for Buckhunter to touch off a round. I didn't know it at the time but he couldn't take the shot! Seems there was a very large herd of sheep that was providing a backdrop for the gobbler that kept Buckhunter from shooting. As we both waited, I heard the alarm putt from the Jakes and they both trotted toward the Toms. I really thought it was the end but it was right then that the sheep cleared and Buckhunter whacked the nice bird he's holding in the pic. What a rush! 6:15 and the the first bird was dead!
We headed for the next spot, arriving about 40 minutes later.We had been hunting this spot but the it had been void of birds all season. The ball game changed when we got out of the truck to gobbling. With a look through the binoclars and a quick call to the landowner, we began the assault. As we watched the birds meander up the hill we tried to stay to the tree line and make a set without them seeing us. We began to call but the birds hung to the top of the hill strutting and showing no interest at all. It was then we decided to head back and attempt to flank the birds. After moving through the edge of the timber, we came upon a hogwire fence running along a skid road at the edge of the field. We began to use the locator call to see if we could raise a bird.A response came when we had almost reached the crest of the hill. Quickly setting up, Buckhunter began to call to the birds. We fully expected them to come waltzing down the skid road. It seemed as if this was going to be the case. When the birds began to hang up, we both began to scratch and rake the ground trying to sound like a hen feeding. Seconds later, the birds were now moving again but appeared not in the skid road as predicted but in the field across the fence approx 25 yards away! When the first bird that gobbled cleared a small bush along the fence I saw the small beard. My shot sent the other two birds flying away as the bird I had shot flopped on the ground! Not the most textbook turkey hunt, considering I had shot through the fence, but effective never the less. Man I love turkey hunting!
buckhunter
Good lookin\' turkeys
Yours was far more work! 
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