My story won't be near as good, almost uneventful actually.
The rain Sean was talking about shut me out for opening morning, so I had to adjust my plans by a day.
I didn't get out of town as early as I'd hoped to, so I didn't get to locate the roost like I prefer. It was already almost dark, so I decided to try for a hog by moonlight. After sitting for about 45 minutes, the first came in. Before I get the shot I wanted a bigger one ran him off.
Oh, this is supposed to be about turkey hunting. Sorry.
Got up this morning and headed of the direction I could here the turkey. Got set up and called to them while they were still on the roost. Three different groups answered!
They toyed with me for close to an hour and moved on, all the while staying on the other side of the property fence.
I was torn between uncooperative turkey and hogs. This was a first for me.
I opted to finish up a little work on a hog then went back out. By this time the birds were on our small piece of property, but were "henned up". I knew their basic travel pattern so I decided to wait them out.
Two gobblers came along with two hens, but I was too far away for a shot with the scatter iron. They wouldn't cooperate. I tried for another hour or more and finally decided to call it quits.
On the way back to my ATV, I spotted something in the brush. I wasn't sure if it was a small pig or a turkey. I worked my way towards it. As I got to about 50 yds, it started my direction. I just patiently waited. When it cleared the brush he was only about 15 yds max! I let him have it.
I felt like I cheated, but I have three more tags to do it right!
I didn't think to weigh him. He had 1 1/4" spurs and a
9 1/2" beard.
The pig weighed 140, it was the third one I saw last night. No luck on the other two. The second of which looked twice as big as this one.