Hi and welcome to another article of Ol` Troy’s Cabin Stories. I have been busy this fall hunting turkey and deer in Pennsylvania. We had a good hunting season but I really notice that the game commission is doing a great job of making the word HUNTING a new meaning here. The deer herd is shrinking buy leaps and bounds.

Turkey hunting in the Double Bull Blind

                   The first time I have ever hunted turkey in a blind was last fall. I took time off at Great American Hunting Store Man it was raining out and the first thing I thought was man this is nice. We busted a flock the night before and we all new that the turkeys would come to the field to get to get back together. Well it was getting light but the rain was still coming down by the bucket full’s. I herd several young turkeys calling out I am over here please leave me know were you all are at.

We worked them a little but man Jim Clayton put us in a spot that was in the middle of them no need to call to much when you have turkeys all around you. We were looking for a young gobbler to get on the film for Hunting the Backwoods TV show. Jim was running the camera and I was the shooter. We were setting in the blind and man the calling was so beautiful. We had one hen come up to us 5 steps away and were singing like a canary. We were looking at the field and there were 4 more turkeys about 60 yards away. Well I had a head net on and it had no eye holes.  I had my Browning Gold 10 gauge that I wanted to break in. So the camera was rolling and Jim said OK I got that gobbler but he is behind some brush. I told Jim I am going to have to shoot soon I am almost out of room. Jim said OK. I took a good bead and BOOM!  The turkey went down for the count. The old Federal Shot shell did its work.

The nice this the turkeys never moved around to much I was puzzled at this and for several days I had to think Why did them turkeys not re-bust and fly. I was thinking why did the turkeys that day not fly? Why do turkeys on a rainy day go to the fields? Then it hit me. When we was cleaning our turkeys. The rain was coming down and it had the turkey feathers soaked. They could not fly. The reason for turkeys in the field is simple know. They use there eyes to see and have enough room to run away.