Topping a knoll, my buddy Jody Smith and I watched in disbelief as three flocks of turkeys sprinted to the decoys. In the time between setting up two decoys and a pop-up blind, parking the ATV and walking back to the blind to start hunting, it was already too late.
More than 45 turkeys attacked with a vengeance, and after nearly 10 minutes of pandemonium, with our decoys now scattered about the field, it was over. The birds dispersed, hens and jennies in one flock, jakes in another and mature toms in their bachelor group.
“Did that just happen?” Smith asked.
It was mid-January and the first year Oregon extended the fall turkey season through the end of the month. We reset the decoys, got in the blind and gave it 20 minutes before we began calling. Instantly, two flocks gobbled and a flock of jakes came on the run. But it
