tbone
02-23-2009, 10:40 AM
Wow, what an experience.
I took my girlfriend to my property with me, I had seen some turkey sign in my food plot and I was going to move an old feeder that I haven't been using up to the plot, so were riding my 4 wheeler with my old noisy trailer on the back, we have found lots of tracks, scat and even a few feathers in the plot, so I am excited to say the least. Around the corner we go and to the top of the hill, and i see a few turkeys racing through the woods. I stop and turn the 4 wheeler off, just to watch for a minute. They stop, only about 60 yards away and they just go back to feeding, then I realize back off to the left, there are more birds, and it sounds like every turkey in oklahoma.we have driven the 4 wheeler right smack in the middle of a huge flock of birds, so we just sit.I cant see the other birds there just over a little hill.
Then a Jake from the bunch on the right decides he wants to be with the other group, he walks back to the fence, where we are and starts trying to find a place to cross, my fence has hog wire from top to bottom, the guy that sold the property to me used to raise goats. The jake is running up and down the fence trying to find a place to cross. He is no farther than 10 or 15 yards. He keeps darting back and forth, and hes getting a little closer each time.
He then I guess decided, we haven't killed him yet we must be ok. He walks right up to us on the other side of the fence, I mean within 6 feet. This has gone on for at least 10 minutes. I just turned the wheeler back on and went on down to where the feeder was, loaded it up and started back. got back to the hill, now another group of jakes are on the other side of the fence beeing led by a tom with at least a ten inch beard, then the whole darn flock pops out, so we turn the wheeler back off. Jakes to the left jakes to the right, toms strutting about 30 yards in front of us, and the biggest flock of hens i have ever seen at one time. oh yea, that one jake was still trying to cross the fence.
Im saying all the hard work it takes to get a decent food plot pays off. Cant wait for April.
I took my girlfriend to my property with me, I had seen some turkey sign in my food plot and I was going to move an old feeder that I haven't been using up to the plot, so were riding my 4 wheeler with my old noisy trailer on the back, we have found lots of tracks, scat and even a few feathers in the plot, so I am excited to say the least. Around the corner we go and to the top of the hill, and i see a few turkeys racing through the woods. I stop and turn the 4 wheeler off, just to watch for a minute. They stop, only about 60 yards away and they just go back to feeding, then I realize back off to the left, there are more birds, and it sounds like every turkey in oklahoma.we have driven the 4 wheeler right smack in the middle of a huge flock of birds, so we just sit.I cant see the other birds there just over a little hill.
Then a Jake from the bunch on the right decides he wants to be with the other group, he walks back to the fence, where we are and starts trying to find a place to cross, my fence has hog wire from top to bottom, the guy that sold the property to me used to raise goats. The jake is running up and down the fence trying to find a place to cross. He is no farther than 10 or 15 yards. He keeps darting back and forth, and hes getting a little closer each time.
He then I guess decided, we haven't killed him yet we must be ok. He walks right up to us on the other side of the fence, I mean within 6 feet. This has gone on for at least 10 minutes. I just turned the wheeler back on and went on down to where the feeder was, loaded it up and started back. got back to the hill, now another group of jakes are on the other side of the fence beeing led by a tom with at least a ten inch beard, then the whole darn flock pops out, so we turn the wheeler back off. Jakes to the left jakes to the right, toms strutting about 30 yards in front of us, and the biggest flock of hens i have ever seen at one time. oh yea, that one jake was still trying to cross the fence.
Im saying all the hard work it takes to get a decent food plot pays off. Cant wait for April.