We went to McCurtain county for a little turkey hunting. We have a 8000 acre lease east of Broken Bow lake.
There has not been a lot of turkey on our lease in the last 3 years I suspect that pelletized fertilizer used by the timber folks is to blame.
Anyway to weather was to warm the wind blew and the birds weren't cooperating at all. So we hunted early and then scouted out some new stand sites and check some of the new clear cuts. In the evenings we drove around counting deer and tried calling coyotes. There was plenty of deer but coyotes were tough to get in to shotgun range. We seen a lot of hogs and hog sign, since they leased all this land out and cut off access to those not on one of the leases hogs have really started to be a major problem. So hogs are a kill as many as you can any time you get the chance option.
One cool evening while driving through the lease we jumped a herd of hogs coming out of a clear cut. My buddy was driving and he started hazing these hogs with the pickup while I unloaded the 870 on them with #4s through a tight turkey choke. I dropped 1 in the road and a 3 of them crawled off into the brush and died. We stopped and took a cell phone pic of the one in the ditch.
The next morning I busted another one with a 22lr the first round hit the hog in the back of the head and it went to shaking it's head and it ran in a circle coming right back around in front of me. I put the next shot just behind it's ear and laid down we finished it with a 44 mag. 30 minutes later we had some cross the road in front of the truck I caught the last one going up a steep bank with the 870.
Then one afternoon we caught this guy crossing the road over 6 ft with 10 rattles and button.
Crappy cell phone pic
Pat
