I saw my friend Ken Mullen, a local artist who creates phenomenal wildlife sketches, at a great turkey hunting spot around 5:00 this morning.
We wished each other luck and went our separate ways.
Our stories are much different.
I set up about 60 yards from roosting birds. I heard them calling at first light, and they flew down from their roosts at about 6:15. They walked off into the woods, and I never heard nor saw them again.
Here’s Ken’s story:
“I set up right underneath them this morning and didn’t realize it. They were all around me this morning. The 1 I got was in a tree about 10′ away and about 15′ up, he started clucking and looking at the decoys and flew down right in the middle of them and it was only about a 10yd shot at most. There was probably 15-20 birds there. Saw a boat load of deer too many to worry about counting.”
I heard Ken’s shot at 6 AM! Great stuff. He bagged a 22-lb gobbler with a 9-inch beard and 1-inch spurs. His photos are above.
My good friend Shaffer (another Delaware hunter) bagged a nice New Jersey gobbler this morning. I am still waiting on details and photos.