Today was the Maryland spring turkey opener and was one of the hottest openers I have hunted 80* and bright sunny sky. It turned out to be a very rewarding one though. I played a chest mach with this bird for four hours with a couple close calls before he finally made the mistake and came in.
I set up about 150 yards from a tom and some hens I had roosted the night before on the edge of an large reforestation area as I figured they would come out into it to feed in the grass. At fly down the birds didn’t come out into the opening they stayed in the woods an I would see glimpses of them every once and a while as the fog was very thick and hard to see any further then 60-70 yards. I sat there for about and hour and a half waiting for the fog to burn off as it did the bird seemed to get fired up and was gobbling much more now and would cut me off every time I called. I held tight letting a few calls out every 15 mins hoping he would make his way in.
Had a couple close calls as I was trying to cut him off once jumping deer, another time spooking one of the hens before I was able to call him in at 10 am and shoot him at 10 yards.
He had 10′ beard and one spur that was 1 1/4 and the other 1 1/8. Going to get a barn board plaque to mount the fan and beard to.
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