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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 9:52:05 GMT -5
Hunted my place this morning. Light rain to start. Very little gobbling on roost...about half a dozen far off. Rain quit about sunrise. Called lightly. Heard a hen putting nearby. She came out at 7:30 and walked right in front of me at 30 yards. She was alone. At about 8 I turned and saw two turkeys standing 50 yards behind me. I think they saw movement...got nervous and started putting. I couldn't identify sex...some red on heads but I couldn't see beards. May have been jakes. Checked radar, more rain coming. Now headed to Metamora lease to hunt field from shooting house.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 11:30:52 GMT -5
I hate this wind!
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 25, 2014 13:15:52 GMT -5
Me too .. I don't think turkeys like it either.. Trying to decide to hunt this afternoon or not... 20 - 30 mph but I have a pine windbreak ... |
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 25, 2014 14:36:57 GMT -5
I'm going!!!!!
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 25, 2014 15:11:17 GMT -5
Dang! Got to my field and there is two hens and a gobbler 30 feet from my blind! Now what to do
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2014 15:46:23 GMT -5
Ain't that always the way?!?
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Post by cwagener on Apr 25, 2014 15:59:30 GMT -5
Bout the same report here. Sat through the rain for about an 1 1/2 hours at Sugar Ridge. Saw 2 hens and heard only the occasional tom in the distance. Late morning activity was ruined by a group cutting lumber there on DNR property.
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 25, 2014 16:15:45 GMT -5
Day late and a dollar short.. Story of my life .. Walking in during an after noon hunt I slow down and look around the south end of our field. Sure enough there was 4 hens and a strutting gobbler in the field and I'm standing in the lane.. What to do?
I tried sitting and calling but all that did was make him strut more for his hens. Mind you I'm in my black long sleeve T shirt for hunting out of a blind. I just hoped to get a shot before they figured out I wasn't a black tree stump.
To make a long story short, he wanted no part of looking for another hen when he had 4. He dropped out of strut, picked a little, left the field, crossed a ditch and went up into the woods opposite of my blind. The hens soon followed. I crawled back out and walked back aways and cut through a stand of pines to access the back side of my blind. That gave them another 15 minutes to get on up in the woods aways... hopefully out of sight.
I'm now in the blind hoping against all odds that they will come back ... or another gobbler will come to the field and decoys.
Close, but no cigar...
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 25, 2014 17:19:38 GMT -5
Just pulled another boo boo.. I had the hen decoy double staked but the wind blew it loose from the bow stake and it was spinning like a top.. I looked all over and then slipped out of the blind to fix it. 2 hens were in the ditch on the other side of the fallen tree and both took off. One running to the big pines and the other went air borne back towards the woods. I can't win for losing..
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Post by Woody Williams on Apr 25, 2014 21:22:30 GMT -5
I ended up seeing 9 turkeys - including the two I scared the pee jabbers out of,.
Had a hen feed in the field for an hour.. No gobblers
I had a dropped horn buck come out and stare at the blind...
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