ironwood
Active Member
….almost.
We just missed a double double Saturdays morning. The first half was Barb and Nate on a ridge just a 1/3 of a mile west of where Zach and I had setup. I'll have Nate jump on here later and tell their story.
For Curly and me it was looking like the rest of our archery season with birds just staying away from the decoys and blind. By 7:50 we decided on nap rotations, 3:45AM was kicking our butts. He curled up at the front of the DB and promptly dosed off. About an hour later I was feeling the need to relieve myself and I stood in the blind and started taking my insulated bibs off, then as I took one last look around there they where, a pair of jakes. They where just visible to my far left and at this point with our season nearly over I knew I would try and take one of these birds. Well, they skirted us a little wide and at 45 yards I decided it was now or never. My shot was just low and the pair immediately started clucking. They looked at our setup, as if pissed, at what ever these birds just tried to do to them. They worked their way into 25 yards pretty quick and I was hooked up and ready with arrow number two. Just then Zach wakes with a start and I placed my hand on him to be still. I told him as soon as I kill this Jake he should role over and grab his bow for the second one. It went just like that, except Zach’s shot was just like my first, just low. We where both goofy at this point and even with the miss Zach was all jazzed up, as that was his very first shot at a turkey with his bow. We worked hard at it the rest of the day and had a blast with some close calls but our season ended without another bird.
