Want to hear yoru funniest turkey hunting story....I gotta share mine

[Tom Tamer]

Wanted to hear everyones funniest turkey hunt, i just had mine last weekend and needed to share it.


 Last Weekend I took my Daughter ( and my Dad out to chase Merriam's in Central Wa, my Daughter had only been once before when she was five so I wanted to get her out again. Well Saturday started off slow, we were trying for a Tom that got the best of me and the wife the weekend before. Well about 9AM we heard him what sounded like on the road so we set Dad facing the road and Cal and I sat behind a rootwad, well you can see how this goes. the Tom came right down in front of me and Cal completely where we DIDN'T want him to come. I had a bow and by the time I drew he was long gone.

 Sunday we get two pop up blinds set up 100 yards from the roost tree, Dad in one and Cal and I in the other, it's a perfect set up, the tom gobbles, I tree yelp and he doubles at it. We're set. About a half hour later he pitches down with a hen 70 yards out, he spies our Jake mounted on a hen deke and decides to strut and head up hill a little. I think the jake spooked him. Well we hear him spit/drum, gobble up the hill a little then he starts back toward us, all of a sudden I hear a weird noise coming from my Dad's blind as I look I notice the blind slowly leaning back then CRASH!!! Dad, the blind, chair, gun and all go tumbling over backwards down the slope he sat on   he'd lost his footing and fell over ,running the tom up the hill gobbling the whole way. I couldn't beleive it we had it all just right couldn't ask for a better set up. I sat there looking out the window laughing my butt off and Dad kept looking at me because when It all wnet down I was hollering at him to " QUIT MOVING!!!"  We did end up getting a shot at the bird but I missed, I was bummed to because my daughter who had wanted to call one in for me did a great job on a pot call. She did her job but I didn't do mine. But he's still there and I'll be back at that tree come Saturday readyto make the " Fourth time a charm" It was a great hunt though, My daughter saw hr first Tom at 28 yards strutting, spittting/drumming and gobbling, that kind of got her hooked but when she had a turkey answer her calling she down right got hooked completely now!

 Let's hear some more funny ones!

[fishunt247]

The first gobbler I ever called in by myself was back when I was 16 on the last day of the season. It was very calm that day, rare for mid May. My brother and I heard them on the roost, set up like 200 yards away (why so far, I have no idea, wow). I put the deke out in an opening, thought all was well. I'd cluck and purr, the bird would gobble back. Everything was right. Instead of coming straight in, he looped to our right, but was still coming in. I saw him coming through the trees at like 70 yards, on a line for the decoy. He was within 35 yards, still on a fast walk to the decoy, but I had to wait for him to get to the opening. Suddenly a wind gust from hell whipped up, spun the decoy around twice. It scared the *censored* out of him so bad he instantly took off running the other way and flew to the next county. I didn't even know what to say. I wanted to kick my decoys ass so bad. Needless to say, decoys aren't in my vest anymore.