Week 3 Day 5/6

On Friday Zack and I went to another piece of public land that I had heard there were a bunch of turkeys on. We went in with high hopes but saw nothing. At night I met my uncle out in Perry, where we sat up the blind and hunted for about an hour and a half until sundown. As we were leaving we decided to change the location of the blind so that it was more concealed. We woke up on Saturday morning at 5:02 am because as my uncle would say, “5 am is too early”. Zack and I set up in the blind and my uncle went into the woods to our right. Our plan to alternate turkey calls as we hoped attract a male turkey to our decoy that was 15 yards in front of the blind. We got into the blind at 6 am and about ten minutes later I spotted a turkey on the other side of the field! It was on a path to continue to walk across us, so I called it and the turkey turned and came in close. There was good and bad news though, the bad being it never came within our range to shoot it. The good was that the turkey as a hen, so even if it had come into range, we could not have shot it. Zack was very stealthy and was able to capture several photos of the small hen which was very exciting.