Kristin and i took off up to 4th of July pass looking around for some turkeys and mushrooms. Is good to get out and about get back up into the country we had been in a long time. We got high enough into the mountains we had to use four wheel drive to get through some snow on the road.
We made several attempts stopping looking for mushrooms but kept striking out. We decided to continue down the road a ways and we're just hitting that point where we're deciding it's time to turn back around.
We both had long forgotten about turkeys figuring where to high and had a big surprise when we came around the corner and spotted four turkeys in the middle of the saddle. A good size tom was standing strutting with his three hens.
When the initial shock wore off of seeing a nice Tom at the elevation in the mountains I decided it's time to get out and shoot him.
I got out of the truck grab the gun loaded it up and ever so stealthily snuck through the brush toward the turkeys. As I approached I noticed all three turkeys walking directly toward me about 15 yards away through the brush. I took up my position as all three of them looked right at me and turned around walking slowly away.
I raised up my shotgun putting the bead right on the toms neck the only problem was the other hand or directly behind them. Ihad to wait for the hens to keep walking away and down to the right it seems like it seemed like it took them 20 minutes to move away from the Tom.
Finally the tom was all alone as able to take the shot. Mr Tom went down and is now going to be on the wall and in our freezer.
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