After I doubled up out west I pulled into a buddies house closer to the Missouri River. We got turned down on two properties we normally hunt due to landowners having family obligations. We went into third property the next morning with one morning to hunt before I had to be back to the webster area. HuntING blind we waited a bit longer to set up the next morning till we heard a few gobbles. 20 minutes to shooting we heard three gobbles and picked our hideout in a against an old cottonwood in some 4 foot high grass. We had on pasture to the east and alfalfa to the west with the birds straight to the soutH we were gueasing 300 yards. The entire flock of 12 took about 45 minutes of messing around a before one lone hen decided to branch off and come our way which turned out to be very neat.
When she got to the spread she sat down and began to dust herself for approx 15 minutes every few minutes she would cluck her fool head off. This was a great; a live decoy that was doing all the calling. Pretty soon the whole group was making there way to us. Steve and I both made out three stutters in the group douING all the talking. As they got closer we determined we had three super Jakes on our hands. I have seldom seen a jake come to full strut and gobble like these did. Full neck extension loud gobbles in response to the call. After what was about a 10 minute cat and mouse session with the birds actually behind us we got them to cross the fence. Having only 1 morning to hunt we decided that these Jakes were gonna have to do. A 1,2,3 from both of us and 2 Jakes were flopping for the grill. It was a fun hunt and lot of laughs with two guys playing cat and mouse with 12 turkeys trying to backdoor us. 4 turkeys in two days heading back east I was excited for my upcoming week off to chase birds back east. More stories to come, good luck to all those headed out.
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