After finally getting resident status and not having much luck finding a legal deer, I set out to get a bird for Thanksgiving during WSU's break. I was hunting a friend's place that was loaded with birds in October, but as luck would have it, in a couple days of hunting, I never saw/heard any.
I got a lead on where some turkeys hang out and boy were they ever! I counted over 140 birds behind a farmer's house, and after a little investigating I found his name and he gave me permission!
The morning I hunted that farm there was a flock of around 50 birds in the field. I busted the flock up and birds went everywhere. I found a good tree to sit by and soon the hens were assembly yelping and the young birds were kee keeing like crazy! I joined the conversation alternating between yelping and kee kees and soon 8 birds came around the corner, but skirted my at 80 yards. Suddenly a hen came flying in and landed about 15 yards from me. She was standing there calling and I was about to bust her when I glanced left and saw for birds at less than 10 yards! Two jakes stopped at the little ditch to get a drink and I was able to get the gun up and bust one at 7 steps! When the gun went off, turkeys went everywhere!
He weighed in just over 12 pounds and was delicious!
