Pennsylvania Opening Day

 Kaily, the dogs, and I made it out to our camp for opening day of Pennsylvania’s fall turkey season. We had a little bit of late start and finally started hunting about mid-morning. The first stop yielded some fresh sign and a small break. We sat for about an hour and a half and nothing happened. 

We began working our way to the main road and I passed a gate that looked promising. We stopped and it didn’t take long for the dogs to break another flock about 400 yards from the vehicle. At this point, it was around 2:30 pm. 

Around 4:00 pm, we heard birds trying to regroup. We had a juvenile at about 35 yards, but it didn’t present a shot. Things went silent and we rebroke the flock.

About an hour later, we had another juvenile come from the top of the ridge (where we were originally set up). It was a little under 40 yards when it picked out something it didn’t like and pitched down the ridge. Shortly after that, another bird begins keeing and walked up the ridge and Kaily made an excellent shot. At this point, it’s less than an hour until sunset. 

I decided to stay a little longer to see if we could  call in one more bird. Not much later, another bird came up from the bottom. It continued to walk back and forth below a small dip and it took awhile for me to get a clean shot opportunity. I was an to get shot at the same exact opening Kaily killed hers! I shot it about 5:55, roughly 15 minutes before sunset.

Both birds were young juveniles, 5 lb. 4 oz. and 4 lb. 10 oz. Kaily’s bird had really neat colored wings! 

We’ll be done turkey hunting for a bit. I’m hoping to make it back to Wisconsin at some point.