How my morning went

I'm stuck at work too, while my 3 hunting buddies are out chasing gobblers. I need more vacation time. ;D

Rhinodogg

I understand what you mean about vacation time I am down to 8 weeks so I came on into work. I think I'll take Friday and Monday off with Sat & Sun in between.

By 8:00 this morning the rain had stopped west of Indy.

Bill

danf

I am up to 8 weeks and get another week in July. I will then burn two this summer, one in gun season and cash one in to buy a muzzle-loader.

Did you say you do landscaping?

Bill

my morning went like this...got dressed and went out side. fired up the box call in my driveway to see if the bird that was on fire behind my house was there this morning...and all of a sudden it started raining BUCKETS and I went back in and changed and came to work !

10 mins. before the alarm was to go off I was awakened by thunder, heavy rain and high winds.
Called my hunting partner who was more than willing to go back to bed. By the time the rain stopped at 2:00pm we had 2 1/2" in the guage. Try again tomarrow.

I worked last night till 11 got up this morn at 4:30 heard some gobbles on the roost then nothing saw a couple hens no toms got lucky w/ the rain, it stoped about the time I got my gear on. I'm back at work now and very sleepy, I've got an easey night ahead of me but I'll be to tired to go in the morn. I work 1'st shift on Fri so the weekend looks good. As far as weather goes I think Sun maybe better than Sat. JMO

I woke up to a fine drizzle that promptly changed to plain old rain.
I got up an fixed coffee and got dressed went. I met Woodmaster at our hunting spot and the rain was now a hard drizzle. Not enough to keep us from hunting. Woodmaster had to go to work at 10 so he would be quitting erlay.

We went to our blinds that are set up on two different fields.

We had hardly got in the blinds and the rain quit. A bit windy, but no rain.

Woodmaster had a jake and two hens close to him by the time he had to leave for work..

I saw a longbeard follow a couple of hens and leave the woods about 220 yards away and he went strutting into a grown up weed field.

About 20 minutes later another longbeard came out of the same woods in to the field and was strutting in a green lane that the farmer had bush hogged on the edge of the field.. I called to him, but he paid no attention to me.

The next thing you know there were four strutters down there.
I kept calling hoping to get some competition going. They closed the distance and when they got to about 100 yards I could see that 3 out of 4 were jakes. Mind you none of these birds ever got out of full strut for over 100 yards. The only way I could tell the long beard from the jakes was by their fans.

The jakes was intimidating the longbeard. They would get shoulder to shoulder and walk towards him. He would drop out of strut and walk away from them.

To make a long story short - The jakes got to with 45 yards, but they were in the lead of the longbeard who was back about 65 yards.

A hen moved past them into the woods and every one of them turned and followed her. ARRGGGHHH!

I stayed all day putting in 13 hours in the blind and saw 29 turkeys. 4 jakes, two longbeards and the rest were hens.

The long beard paid me a visit in the afternoon but would never close the last 100 yards. He had a comfort strutting zone and wasn't leaving it.

I'll be set up in that zone in the morning .

BTW- Ticks are bad. I picked 6 off of me.

Well here goes mine, starting off the same as always, no bird, lol. I camped in the van last night, but slept pretty good, It was raining in Brown County, so I laid there till 5:15, and drove to Nashville, got coffee and waited til McD's opened at 6. Got to my spot at 6:20am and there is a truck there. I talk to the guys and find out where they are going so we don't push each other, plenty of woods in the HNF. It is 6:30is when I get to where I want to start. I hit the owl call and gobbler responds. I set my dekes and do some real calling and he responds, moving away. I wait a little bit and he keeps heading away. I move and try and get a better picture of where the bird is, I hear a bird (same one???) out on a ridge, I start working toward that area where 4 ridges run together. I find a nice place sit down and call, gobbler fires off, then low and behold a funny sounding hen calls too (not the area the guys told me they were going.....maybe different hunters.) I do some soft putting and ourring while the other hen sent up smoke signals calling so much. I waited about an hour and move. I think I ran into the hens later, they were moving where I was going and I walked the opposite way. I have never ran into anyone in this area in the woods, but they were thick today. I heard 1 shot about 7am. Went to a second area and 0 gobbles, stayed there till 2pm. Got back to my truck and I had left the lights on, so I walked about 1/2 mile to a farm house and the owned jumped me. I had a fun day just being out.