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I have collected trail cam footage since June in Unit 22. I have not seen 1 turkey in the 5000+ imagines I have collected from my 5 cameras until 2 weeks ago. Over the last 2 weeks I have 2 groups of turkeys showing up on multiple cameras. 1 group has 2 hens and between 6-9 poults. The other group is 6 adult tom turkeys This morning I sat in my treestand from 7AM until 10:30 hoping to see some deer or one of the 3 bear that visit regularly. Wind was swirling around and these chameleon tree blinds need some fine tuning to make the material quieter and quit flapping in the breeze and making non-natural sounds.

At about 7:30 I hear something coming down the hill behind me to my left. It's making a racket walking through the dry leaves. It circles behind my tree and turning around I see its a small group of toms coming around the right hand side of my tree. Nice long beards but quite slim in body mass. They proceed toward the other side of the pond where a friend was up in my brothers tree stand not more than 15 yards away. They turkeys futzd around a while then walked off.

I believe I can get an over the counter archery turkey tag as well for the Aug 22 hunt.

Please excuse the crummy filming.

 

http://youtu.be/BQAbmZZ2hlo

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where da heck were they when I had fall bird tags for last year! lol.

 

I sat on a hill with my buddy during the late archery bull hunt in 22 (the mid November hunt). Trying to stay awake against a tree and be extra eyes, I noticed something small and black moving in. Whelp, sitting on the ground my first thought was... "im gonna get sprayed by a skunk". I could only see little bits of black over the down tree that was blocking my view. out come little turkey heads, sorta like "up periscope" . then they went over the log. I wound up taking pine cones to toss near them to get them to turn and change path. They came in about 20 feet from me though. It was pretty awesome

 

thanks for sharing he video

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Them are some of the biggest ropes I have ever seen in one place. That water hole looks awful familiar. :o Good luck getting one of them boys.

 

TJ

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That totally rocks!! Are those Merriams or Goulds? Great longbeards either way. Thanks for sharing that with the site.

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Their are 2 grou;ps of turkeys in the area that I have either seen in person or on trail cameras. 1 has 2 hens and about 10 poults and the other group is the one from the video, 6 toms. I have a few pictures from the trail camera in the area of a few of the toms all puffed up strutting. It's interesting that I have had the trail cameras up since thge beginning of June and only seen these turkeys in the last 3 weeks.

 

I'll be picking up a OTC turkey archery tag for sure. So I could possibly shoot a wide assortment of animals that weekend- bear, antlered deer, lion, or turkey.

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