Live Hunts - 2004 Missouri Live Turkey Hunt

Missouri Live Turkey Hunt
Day 1 - May 4, 2004

Hunt Introduction
This hunt takes place in northwest Missouri, on private land that is part of the Mid-America Hunting Association, of which I am a member. The MAHA has over 230,000 acres of quality private land in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa leased for hunting by it's members. I've been a member these last 4 years and enjoy being in the association a great deal. I've had successful turkey hunts on MAHA properties in Missouri and Kansas the last 2 years, and I'm hoping to make it 3.

Tuesday A.M.

This morning I went to a property that I bowhunted for deer last fall and thought it looked like good turkey country. It's gently rolling and is a mixture of wooded creekbottoms and croplands, like much of the area up here. It was a nice morning and I was hoping to hear a few gobbles at least. I climbed up on a ridge to listen and didn't hear any gobbles about "the time", so I started hiking around to different spots to try and shock a tom into gobbling with my owl hoot and crow call. About 6:30 a.m. I heard a faint gobble, back in the direction I had started out the morning. I got back over there as soon as possible and heard him gobble a few times more. He was bedded in a creekbottom, and I was torn about how close to get. My first instinct was to stop where I was, about 150 yards away. I should have listened to my gut instinct. Instead, I got about 50 yards closer and found that I was slightly mistaken about his actual location. A few minutes later he flew down about 100 yards away and I realized that he probably had been able to see me moving closer. A few hens flew down with him and of course they went in the opposite direction.

I didn't hear one more gobble all morning, and I covered a lot of country calling. This was not an encouraging sign for the rest of my hunt. I hoped very much that tomorrow would be different.

turkeys are definitely in the area

I snapped this picture of the sunset as I was driving around the countryside this evening

- Go to Day 2 -

Trip Notes
This hunt takes place in northwest Missouri, on private land that is part of the Mid-America Hunting Association, of which I am a member. The MAHA has over 230,000 acres of quality private land in Kansas, Missouri and Iowa leased for hunting by it's members.

If you're interested in checking out the Mid America Hunting Association, go to:

- http://www.ks-mo-hunt.org -

Equipment
I'm shooting a Remington 870 Express Magnum with Remington 3-inch, 2 oz. #6 shotshells, which pattern very well in my gun. I'm using an H.S. Undertaker choke. I'm wearing Predator Spring Green camo on this hunt, as it really blends in with the Spring colors.

Joshua Flournoy owns and manages the Livehunts.com web site. Joshua resides in east Texas with his wife and four children.

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