Piketown PhD Turkey Tom

By Justin Stakes

By John E. Phillips

United States -(AmmoLand.com)- I lived in Piketown, Pennsylvania, and on this hunt, I was hunting with my dad. Although I grew up hunting with my dad, we had two very-different types of hunting.

When my dad picked a turkey and decided to call with him, he might stay with that turkey until lunchtime.

Even if the turkey quit gobbling, Dad wouldn’t leave that bird but I was a run-and-gun type of turkey hunter. If I couldn’t get the turkey to come to me quickly, and the bird quit gobbling, I’d leave that bird and go hunt for a turkey that was more eager to respond to calling.

Dad had taken a day off from work so that he and I could hunt together, which of course would rate as my favorite hunt of the year.

After we’d hunted all morning long and were walking out of the woods, I told my dad, “Let me make one more stop here, and throw my calls out in this one area.”

We’d had a real bad morning and just hadn’t …Read the Rest

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