Ooops, Now I feel bad..


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Sunday morning I went for a drive to look at a couple different farms I have permission to hunt. I was driving on a small dirt road when a hen crossed the road about 75 yards in front of the truck. I slowed down and looked, the hen crossed into some trees, then went to a field about 50 yards farther down the road. I looked where she came from, and sure enough, here came a gobbler. My season isn't open yet but I wanted to get some pictures. He was about 30 yards off the road, so I gave him a couple clucks & purrs (out for the truck window). He came to about 15-20 yds and started strutting & drumming. After a couple minutes & some good pictures, he figured it out & went back in the direction he came from.

When I started to leave, I looked in the field to see if the hen was still out there, and about 100 yards off the road, I could see a couple decoys!! I think I ruined a morning hunt! I'm sure that guy could hear the bird gobbeling and had to be pretty fired up.. I'm sure if I wasn't there the gobbler would have followed the hen right out to the field..

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