I'm getting frustrated

[turkeyhunter64]

Took the rookie again today. Morning started promising. Had 2 longbeards and 5 jakes roosted above us. They gobbled a little bit and then pitched down and fed toward us. They got about 80 yards away and for some reason changed course and walked away. About an hour later I did some fighting purrs and a Jake came in cutting and purring hard. He got about 50 yrds from us on the other side of a creek and would not cross. He too walked away cutting and purring.

At 3:00 I hit a pair of long beards on the run with a box call they roared off. We slipped down a road and got set up. I hit them again and within 10 mins they were sitting in our lap. I had the scope on one waiting for the rookie to shoot. He never did . At 30 yrds and he said all he could see their heads.... By the time I realized he was not going to shoot it was to late for me.... I'm going to give him one more chance. If I don't go by myself and kill one first...by the way..both birds were huge.

 

[RUGER]

Wow, sounds like dude needs to do some reading on turkey hunting or something.
Good luck.

 

[buckdead]

thats funny to me and frustrating for you i used to make my turkey huntin teacher mad when i was a kid, but in my defense i was blind as a bat and didnt know it.

 

[shopson]

If you are taking a rookie and don't expect mishaps then you need to re-think. No doubt you were good from day 1.
It would be nice to have killed every turkey I encountered in my early learning years, let alone my so called veteran years.

 

[cweand]

I went 5 years before I got my first one. Most times I was giving up and getting ready to move and they would be behind me or to the side of me but I was so bored by then that I didn't notice until they were on the run and fly off. The first one I ever got I was doing everything wrong, I was hot, tired and frustrated and getting eaten alive by mosquito's. I finally figured out they really really like swampy areas. I was smoking back then and lit a cigarette, had my face mask off and took a big old swig of water. Then after I sat down by a tree I took out my coyote call and hit it hard a couple times. Had two birds coming at me crisscrossing and gobbling and running straight at me. I took aim and laid one out the other went to it and I had to chase it off. Those birds would gobble everday during the whole season and that was the last day when I tried that. I have tried that coyote call every year since then and never had it work again.
Now this year after many many years of hunting I was going in opening day and setting up decoys, I bumped my box call by accident and as I was bending down to set up the decoy I caught movement out of the corner of my eye and sure enough there were three birds coming at me. But I was busted and they took off quick fast and in a hurry. Not moving is the hardest thing of all in my book and not making noise is the second. They know it everytime.