The Fake Stump
I finally got the fake stump installed at the Honey Hole this afternoon with the help of Moose and the Mooselette. This is the culmination of several years’ worth of planning and fretting. It all goes back to 2016. I had been turkey hunting with my back against the same dead tree for a decade, when the inevitable happened and the old tree fell over.
Here is how it looked back in the day:
I tried several other trees in the vicinity, but it just was not the same. I finally decided to erect a piece of plywood across two adjacent trees. I had everything ready for last season, but COVID intervened, and I never got to hunt last year. It is just something to put my back against and to block the gobblers from seeing me from the backside.
Mooselette asked me why I put “HUNNER” with a big arrow pointing at me. I told her it was to give the turkeys fair warning. She wanted to know why I misspelled it. I told her turkeys can’t spell.
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Just to update y’all, I was out last Sunday and sat in front of the Fake Stump to collect audio for a podcast. A gobbler hopped down and came at a run towards the Honey Hole. I got up and moved so I could better get his gobbling on the recorder. The gobbler ran through the Honey Hole and walked right by the plywood without giving it any notice. I was a safe distance away and watched the whole thing. If I hadn’t moved, he’d have been in my lap. That is about as good a gobbler-approved endorsement as I’m going to get.