Finally got my first gobbler. I killed a jake two years ago hunting with my dad. That was my first turkey. Last year got skunked although I was only able to hunt about 3 times. This year I had a jake come to decoy first hunt, called a gobbler to within 20 yards on the second hunt but missed him trying to shoot through some brush, third hunt went in the afternoon and did not see or hear anything.
This hunt I was going to go back to where I missed the Tom two weeks ago, but within minutes of leaving the truck I heard a turkey gobbling down the road I was walking on in the pine plantation. I put the decoy in the middle of the road and found a decent spot to sit down in on the side of the road. The turkey did not sound like he was moving for about 30 minutes. Then he sounded like he moved further to my right but was getting closer. I was pretty sure he was coming down another road that ran parallel to mine about thirty yards through the pine plantation. I got pretty aggressive on the call (I'm still a newby trying to learn how to call) and he was responding. I heard some flapping and wasn't sure where it was coming from then the turkey came flying in from where I thought he was. I was not expecting that! I couldn't see him land and it got quiet so I hit the box call one more time and waited. About a minute later he came into view strutting toward the hen decoy. I was in awe watching him strut and was trying to figure out how to get my gun up as he was only about 10 yards away.
He turned away from me in full strut and I was able to get my gun up. As he turned back around to the left side of the decoy he was directly facing me and I took the shot. It rolled him backwards about three feet and left a feather debris field about 6 foot in diameter. The best part is I caught it all on my Gopro which I had on my head. I turned it on literally about two minutes before he flew in. The bad is it was set on wide angle and it looks much farther away than it really was. It's still neat to have it saved on video.
