Turkey Hunting with a Sterlingworth Wildfowl Deluxe

[Foxnut]

We’ve had on and off gloomy weather here in MI and not the Spring Turkey Hunting weather. Our season came in April 23rd but I didn’t get to start hunting until April 28th. This evening I got out of work at 5:30 and headed to the farm I hunt. Sat my decoys up just inside the woods in an area the Turkeys usually pass through of an evening. Started using my Lynch Fool Proof box call and got several gobbles quite away off in the field behind me. I managed to get behind a tree to take a look and there were five Tom’s strutting behind a single hen as she fed her way across a winter wheat field. At 6:20 I got him off the N. side tractor path of the farm. He and the other four Toms followed that hen all the way from a swamp on S side of farm to the edge of an autumn olive thicket on the North side. I went all the way around on foot on the East side of the farm in a pine thicket and crawled the last 40 - yards and just laid on the ground doing soft yelps with a mouth call. Every time I yelped there would be four or five gobbles. He was the first one in line. 32 yard shot. 9" beard and 1" spurs. Probably a two year old bird. About a quarter mile all the way around to get to him. Busted 7 Jake’s as I was trying to get to the Toms. Luckily they cooperated and ran in the opposite direction! I used my Sterlingworth Wildfowl Deluxe made in 1936. Still in its original configuration.

[Foxnut]

If took about 30 - 40 minutes and a lot of hoofing it to make it happen. Fun evening!

[Foxnut]

[Jimmy Goodtime]

Congrats on a nice bird!

[Jeff S]

Congratulations on a great hunt. Beautiful bird, and taken with a Fox. Perfect!

[44whiskey]

great story,great pics, good for you.did this stalk get your heart rate up or are you old hand at this.thanks for sharing.fred

[TOOL MAN]

Congrats!! Beautiful bird with a dandy of a Fox, hard to improve upon that equation!

PS---That would make for quite the "tail" in our upcoming newsletter. Yelp, yelp, yelp...Hint----hint----hint

[Foxnut]

great story,great pics, good for you.did this stalk get your heart rate up or are you old hand at this.thanks for sharing.fred

Fred, yes, to say that my heart was pumping is an understatement! Between the run around the East side of the farm and the adrenaline of the hunt I could hear/feel it going wild while I waited for the birds to show up. This chubby old guy was for sure tired last night!!

[DarylC]

Nice going Brett. That SW wildfowl is just the ticket for the Bo-Whoop.

[67galaxie]

Thank you so much for taking the time to share that here