Day 2

Today was the first day of the real deal. We started out the day like yesterday, by watching a movie about spring turkey hunting. This movie however, was much more well done than the previous one and taught us many new things. This film taught us how to scout for turkeys, learn about all the box calls, and how to stay camouflaged. To scout, it is never safe to call and roam. That is, you can't call a turkey and then walk around trying to find others. To scout, you should find a good place to sit down and call from there. There are a few different types of box calls. There are different mechanisms that imitate the sound, and we will most likely be getting one that you only have to push a rod to create the noise. This film also reiterated the fact that turkeys have very keen eyesight, so it is necessary to have masks and such. Also, it is necessary to be perfectly still until you pull the trigger because they will spook and bolt easily. We should be between 10 and 20 yards when we shoot a turkey, so we will need to be perfectly camouflaged and still to get one.

Finally, we got to start out shooting. We set up the target and starting practicing with the crossbow. We set up the target and then had sticks mark 10 and 20 yards. We started at 10 yards and took turns taking rounds of four bolts. At this point, we were dialing in the scope so that we would hit where we were aiming. After the 10 yard was dialed in, we went to the 20 yard mark. We worked at 20 yards, but our accuracy went down a little bit and we were shooting a few inches too low. We tried to adjust the scope, but it still wasn't shooting perfectly on target. So, tomorrow we will continue practicing from 20 yards and fix the scope so that we shoot accurately.