Monday morning was my next day to hunt with Freddy. The weather forecast was just as I expected for my hunt...RAIN. It rained on us opening day and the forecast called for rain today. We were hoping to catch a break in the weather and it looked like we might get a chance...the storm was moving slower and might give us decent weather for an extra hour or so. We walked across the pasture fields and went up to a patch of woods and "just listened" for a little while. One gobbler sounded off on our right and then about 4-5 sounded off in our patch of woods. At this same time the thunderstorms were starting to roll in and there was some far away lightening and thunder. The turkeys went crazy! We heard between 8-9 turkeys gobbling at the thunder. We decided to set up in the patch of woods just off an old roadbed. Freddy sat behind me about 5 yards with the camera in tow, I wouldn't let him carry his shotgun on this trip
. We listened to the woods wake up and the gobblers try to keep time with the thunder. We were shocked to hear one of the birds already on the ground. He walked up the hollow in front of us, gobbling his head off at the soft calls from the Green Reaper. Then 3 of his buddies came up and joined up with him at the top of the hollow...they had decided that he was going to do the strutting and the other 3 could just gobble. When they popped up from the hollow they were out of range and were headed to the field. Freddy and I had both done a 180 at the base of our trees trying to keep up with these guys. Just then it started to rain... and surprisingly, all 4 birds decided they liked the woods better at this point and came back to our calling. They all came within about 35-40 yards and I walloped the last bird at 40 yards. 
18 pounds
10½" beard
7/8" spurs
This was an awesome hunt and at least the thunder/lightning stayed in the distance this morning! I love being in the woods with my husband and ladies you should give it a try...it's great!
Amy
