NH Turkey, my story!

This weekend was a busy weekend, I had to work Sat. morning, then I had to take care of a few errands before scouting for Sundays big turkey hunt. Sat. afternoon I was able to head out around 4 to find a good Tom to hunt and it didn't take long before I noticed a bird that would fit the bill. I ended up watching this Tom for 3 hours. He had 3 hens with him and would not let them get too far away before he reeled them back into what he thought was a safe distance. At around 7:30 Sat. evening the birds headed into the woods on route to their roosting tree. That was enough for me as I was happy with what I saw! I had a plan, I was able to go to the Barn Store of New England where they were more then happy to help me out with what I needed for the hunt. I had purchased a new Carry Lite Tom Decoy, and the next morning I would put it to the test.
Sunday morning I was up at 3;30 am and the plan was in action, I did not want to call at all, I wanted to see if the Decoy's I placed would do the job. I placed the Carry Lite Tom and a Hen at the 30 yard mark, took a seat and waited until 10minutes to 5 before I heard him let out his first gobble, the field I was hunting was lit up already and I knew he saw the decoy's and was not happy, he continued to gobble, he sounded mad, for 25 minutes I heard him gobble, off in the distance I could hear the hens trying to get his attention, but he was fixed on the Tom Strutting his stuff with HIS girlfriend! Around quarter past 5am I saw him gliding into the field and as soon as he touched down, the strutting had begun but only for a split second, then it was a full charge to the guy stealing his lady! The fight was about to begin! Being me, and the fact I dont like fights, I had to neutralize the situation with 1 shot! The rest is history!

So I guess the Decoys worked like a charm, without making a sound. I had lots of fun this morning listening to the turkeys and watching this Tom react to another on his turf.

The next thing I did was went to check my moose camera, I am excited and waiting to see calves on camera! I know some of you will think no way, it's too early but Moose are in the deer family and lots of does have given birth to fawns as early as the end of March this year. So if the moose are following that same early season schedule then we should have some calves already running around. I will be sure to add pics if I should get any early calves. Below are a couple random pics from last weeks trail cam!

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