BUSTED BY THE BACKDOOR GOBBLER.

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BUSTED BY THE BACKDOOR GOBBLER.

 

Has anyone else had this happen to them?

 

Its early morning and quite cool out, 25 degrees to be exact, I am sitting at 8500 ft. in a ground blind I built with downed pine bows last evening.

 

I have been sittin for almost two hours, a little purttin here, a little yelpin there, but no report back from the timbers.

 

That’s when it happens!!!

 

30 yards up the hill behind me, a big Tom lets go with a great big GOBBLE, GOBBLE, and GOBBLE!!!!

 

Holy Crap!!! He has snuck-up behind me and is lookin right strait at me!!!!

 

I have my back to him, but I am twisting my neck around like some kinda crazy Owl trying to watch him.

 

Now his BIGGER brother walks up, jumps onto a tree stump, and lets it rip….GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE, GOBBLE….

 

Man I am trapped; these guys were now 50ft behind me, coming right straight at me, if I were to bat an eye lash, they would know!!!

 

So here I am trying to figure out; how am I going to pull a quick draw McGraw on these boys, but they keep coming closer and closer

 

I still have not moved, and my neck is starting to cramp-up, but I do have my fingers on my Rem.12ga. And I await the chance to make my SWAT TEAM move.

 

Just then the Bigger brother squawks a slight little PURT …. And they are off.

 

I grab the trusty 3” magnum and find a target, The big guy has his back to me at 20 yards, his smaller twin turns broadside at 35 yards, the twin is in my sights and takes the trigger…

 

I drop the hammer on him just as he is taking to the air, Feathers fly, Muzzle blast and flash the crisp morning air, and he is already at MACH 2 heading for a dark canyon off to the east.

 

I spend over an hour looking for a crash landed 30 pound pile of black wings and feathers, hoping to see two stiff legs pointing to the Heavens.

 

Nope, nothing…..

 

I have been rejected by the Big Gobbler in the sky, No tom for me.

 

Now, I do remember reading about these Back Door snipers, but to experience it is almost too much for my Fruitless pursuits…

 

Have you any tales of these BACKDOOR BIRDS???

 

[ehunt]

i had that happen twice to me this year. the first time we had two gobbling in front of us when a different one came in behind us and gobbled no more than fifteen yards from us, scared the crap out of us. the next morning another one came in silent from behind us and we were not able to get a shot. i think it happens alot more than we know about.

[tjhunt2]

I've been busted by them back door gobblers myself but here is a picture of one unlucky gobbler. I had been archery hunting the first week and decided to carry the gun this day as I checked for some turkey roost. As I scaled along this steep terrain looking for a roost tree I came face to face with this turkey that scared the day lights out of both of us. He took about three steps before flying across a little canyon and I dropped him in mid air out about 50yds. He landed in the very bottom and I thought as I carried him out of there, "what the heck would I do with an elk down here". My training starts tomorrow to get this fat a$$ in some sort of shape before elk season. I was lucky enough last year to have the help of Gamehauler, on a couple of occasions, while my shoulder healed.

We took 9 turkeys so far out of our two camps and my wife goes gobbleless for another year.

My partner and I set up this morning with a couple decoys and called in a young gobbler that strutted and fanned all around us for over a half hour. We were able to call him in three times but still weren't able to grow a beard on him but he sure gave us a show. Shortly after that we had a last year cow come in and licked our decoy gobbler and then decided to pull him out of the ground by his head. There stood that elk with the turkey sticking out of his mouth and my video camera laying back at camp. As we both tried to get our digital cameras out of our packs, while laughing under our breath, we got busted and he dropped our decoy and walked off.