A Success story!

So yesterday was the season opener for Bow hunting in my zone! I wanted to be out all day but due to a conflict with the people that pay me....I had to attend a midday meeting so I did not get into the field until around 2pm. I sat there until dark and saw nothing. (insert sad face) But I think I may have the beginnings of a new song about hunting, more on that when I get it done!

But as they say even a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally.

I totally forgot to write about TURKEY SEASON.  I got a new camo rain suit from Cabela's for $14.99 with mega sale, clearance and Cabela bucks it was a great find and well worth it. My first turkey hunt it rained on me but I stayed dry, at least from the outside. That seems to be the problem with rainsuits they keep the rain out but act like a sauna on the inside! Anyway I went down to the WMA and came up empty actually even lost my mouth call somehow! But it was a decent day I picked up credits for 300 clay birds at the shooting range, now that's a cool story too! I also saw some turkeys while driving so it wasn't a total bust. The next Saturday the family went up to Rock Hill for a youth area wide devotional/retreat so I had the morning to hunt and then hightail it up there for the evening.
I went back to the WMA where we were accosted by green pants back in beaver season, there is a nice little field not to far in that I had seen some turkeys at while hunting with my Bama Buddy! So I thought I would set up there and see how my luck would do. When I pulled up to the gate there were 3 guys with rifles (?!) getting out of a truck. I asked what they were going for and turns out they were hog hunting...(not rifle bearing season but I did not say anything to them). They said they were headed to the end of the trail near the river, I was only going about 400yds in so it was all good. They headed out and I got ready. It was raining again...but I brought my pop-up blind this time! Set it up on the top end of the field, set out my decoys and hit the slate!

Here's the view from inside my blind.

those are my decoys

Gobblers came from the right side

 Then the rain came, it came down, down, down in rushing rising rivlets...man was I glad for the pop-up blind. Me and all my gear stayed dry! I did not think it was ever going to stop raining so I pulled out my smartphone to check the radar and no sooner than I do that I see motion at the far end of the field. I could not tell if it was turkey hens coyotes or what. Then I saw the grey heads. It is a little bit of a hill so I could only see the tops. I was thinking cool if they are hens gobblers won't be far behind. then they made their way up and towards me. It weren't hens! A group of gobblers! Then they saw my decoys and they got excited grey heads started turning red all 4 of them getting all worked up! It was cool. They started heading towards the dekes so I laid my 16 gauge Remington model 1148 up on the rail, put the bead on the head of the biggest of the bunch. who was also out in front and BOOM! he drops, DRT (dead right there) the other three start gobbling. Then two of them pounce on my bird and start digging out his tail feathers. So I am watching all this amazed at their actions and the third bird starts moving away. Then it hits my...I can shoot 2 a day....I was worried that if I aimed at the two thugs beating on the down bird I would hit them both so I aim at the third, he is already moving farther away, maybe too far for the old 16ga BOOM-gobble gobble, BOOM-gobble gobble, BOOM-gobble gobble. It was humorous that the gobble after every shot. I think the third shot may have bounced of his back because he took off flying into the woods. I ran after him into the woods but couldn't find him anywhere so I think it was too far for the pellets to do any damage. But hey I got my first ever bird!

Not a limb hanger or any record but a gobbler nonetheless.