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We've got a few openings for Sturgeon fishing for anyone wanting to tangle with a beast!!!!
It looks like we're going to have a great week for melting Rainy Lake ice!! We're looking forward to mornings like this soon!!! At your service!!!
Tales of our hunt!!!![]()
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At 4:45 AM Troy had his truck running and 3 sleepy turkey hunters quickly loaded up and headed to coffin corner!!![]()
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Troy has cleverly named this particular hunting area due to it's historic demise to some absolutely beastly birds over the years!!![]()
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At our final turn of our walk in, Troy stopped and pointed to the tree tops ahead. It was pretty dark, but we could see what seemed to possibly be turkeys roosted within a mere 100 yards of our ground blind!!! None of us really had any experience with this happening before, but it clearly took slipping in undetected off the table!! 🤣 ![]()
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We pinned down our turkey decoys and dimmed our headlamps as we collectively settled into our ground blind. For the next hour 3 fellow hunters sat in what can only be explained as turkey pandemonium!! While we all sat wide-eyed watching turkeys in the trees, we were being serenaded by a piercing chorus of gobbling and screeching all around us. It was just kind of what you dream about as a turkey hunter!!![]()
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We had echoes of gobbling to our back left, back right, front left and front right. Then all at once the tree birds would erupt from above. We were literally in the center of a turkey Orchestra!! At that moment nothing else mattered!! The rest of this crazy world wasn't even a thought. It's times like this where many of us find our true center. ![]()
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Every once in awhile Troy would give a soft mouth call and every time the woods would respond with pure craziness!! It was the kind of craziness where you can't wipe the smile off your face. Where you just have this continuous soft chuckle coming out of you. While we've all hunted these amazing birds before, this was something for the books!!![]()
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As legal shooting hours paralleled our increased visions, the action only intensified. It was clear that now we had at least 2 big Tom's closing in on us from the ground. Currently out of sight, but not sound!! ![]()
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Kelly had this years honor of being first on the trigger, as she sat next to Troy in the front of the blind. I was in the back corner trying watching and listening with so much excitement for her!! I know Troy was feeling the same as I was. We were so excited for her!! It was just fun to be a part of it!! I hope folks that don't hunt or fish experience something like this. Something that truly captures you. Something that reminds you how great this life is we've all been so blessed with!! Hunting and fishing has always been that something for me.![]()
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Then all at once a beautiful tom made his majestic appearance off to our left!! He fanned out and danced around. What a show!!! He was literally coming on a string to our Jake decoy. Kelly was gripping her gun as she tried position herself for a hopeful opportunity. After several stops, fan outs, struts and head color changes, the beast was now all in!!! He was coming full throttle to the spread!!![]()
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He came right after the Jake decoy and began to absolutely unleash on him. It was an epic beat down while Kelly tried stay on him. He was within 30 feet of us, but so tight the decoy, Kelly couldn't get a clean shot. It seemed like 15 minutes, but was probably only 45 seconds. ![]()
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As someone not on the trigger this was equally intense!! It's something almost unexplainable really. The soft whispers of encouragement, the urging to take the shot, Kelly talking to herself!!! The sights, the sounds, the pure adrenaline rush, it was almost unbearable!!!![]()
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Just when Kelly was about to take him another tom came running in looking to fight tom #1. WHAT!!!!!!!!!!! I quickly gripped my shotgun and tried sliding my barrel out the back slot. ![]()
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I told Kelly you shoot whenever you are ready. If I can get a shot on the 2nd bird, I'll shoot after you. Just worry about your bird!! Shoot when ready!!!!![]()
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The next 30 seconds can only be understood by hunters. The intensity of two giant birds within feet of our blind is something none of us will ever forget.![]()
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Finally Kelly's Tom was about to get chased off, so she took the shot!!! She drilled him and he went straight down!! The big tom I was on spooked a touch and bolted out from my shooting position.![]()
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I quickly pulled my gun back in and squeezed between Troy and Kelly. I slipped my shotgun out a little opening in the front and miraculously the monster tom gave me a clean shot!! ![]()
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I squeezed the trigger and that shot cemented the most memorable turkey hunting experience of our lives!! While two amazing birds lay in front of the blind, the memories will live on forever!!![]()
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Huge thanks to Troy and Laurie of Atwater GM for having us down each year and allowing us to experience such an awesome hunt!! Such amazing people, such an amazing dealership, such an amazing hunt!! ❤️
Last morning!! We're hoping for one more big boy out looking for love!! With Kelly, Troy/Atwate#turkeyhuntingnting