Just got back to
Fredonia from fall break and it was one to remember. Me and teammate Hunter Long have been
planning a hunting trip to my house since last year and when we saw that we
were lucky enough to have time this fall break to get away from school we were
both excited to get out in the woods. It
just happened to be the fall turkey season in the part of the state I live in,
so we headed to my house Wednesday night and planned our strategy for the next
4 days of tacking some turkeys down. We
started every morning off waking up at 6 am, in order to get out to where we
would be sitting and get set before the turkeys got off their roost shortly
after sunrise and started moving around for the day. We did not get to shoot a Tom (which is a
male turkey), however we did see around 25 hens between our 4 days of
hunting. This seemed to be a little
frustrating since we saw so many birds, but not what we were looking for. We expected it to be very difficult to shoot
a Tom, because the fall season is unlike the spring turkey season in that the
Toms will not respond and come in to you a call. So basically we had to locate where the
turkeys were feeding and roosting and try to be sitting in the right spot where
we could cross paths with some of them.
We also had some fun hunting for Coyotes in the middle of the night,
which was a new experience for Hunter that he has never done and we did get to
see 2 coyotes, but did not shoot one.
Although we did not get the turkey dinner we wanted to bring back to the
boys in Fred, it was a great weekend to get away from the hustle and bustle of
school and be able to relax and get out in the woods and enjoy what we love to
do.
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