Sounds like alott of guys are strugglin this year

It has been a tough year, but for me Indiana is always tough just due to lack of birds.

My head is still up. I have some good huntin coming up this weekend. I plan to spend all day in the blind or doing a little run and gun. Anyway to cut it, the Mossy 500 will be in hand all day.

The birds don't seem to be working to calls this year. Three of us were hunting the HNF for five days and only one bird. He came in silently with a hen in tow. I consider myself lucky to have taken him. Little gobbling and it ends very early. I believe the weird spring weather has something to do with it, as well as the fact that fewer 2 year old birds means less gobbling. Stick with it. Where I hunt, the busiest weekend is the last of the season. Hens should be on the nest and toms should respond better to the calls. Good luck.

Hummm so the later in the seaon the more the birds will come to calls....kinda like my thinking in that other thread, Larry ?!?

In Jefferson Co. I havent been able to call a bird in, in 3 years. I have gotten them by sitting over fields. I was calling for someone Sat. Heard 14 on the property I was on but they would never come.

I noticed last week in Ohio Co. / Switzerland Co. / as well as Jefferson Co. that if we fired the birds up on their way to roost in the evenings-

(by doin some tag team calling - for instance hen 1 yelps several times then hen 2 clucks and hen 1 yelps and clucks then hen 2 cutts and hen 1 answers with a cutt, then 1 and 2 cutt together)

it seems to drive the TOMS nutts, they would come runnin into about 50 -70 yds and then stop or go on to the roost and continue gobbling for awhile. (I realize this isn't killin range) BUTT when morning comes then ya do a fly down sequence or some light tree yelping, the Toms seem tom remember that HOTTIE they talked to before they went to bed, almost like they thought about em all night and they would come in HOTT right off the roost.

I also noticed that they were real talkative for about the first 45 min on their own then I believe them to become henned up, however around 10:30 - 11:00 seemed to be that magic hour when the hens went to nest and left the big boys hangin on their own in the fields, and they'd Begin gobblin on their own again. We noticed this until around 1:00 then nothin again. Around 4:00 it seemed like the birds come out of the woodwork to hit the crop fields, after 5 days this proved true EVERY SINGLE DAY.

Well theres just a little of what I observed, do with it what ya want, hopefully it works for someone

Good Luck Ya'll