ccm75
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Tagged out with another Jake this am.
Two big Toms strutting, 2 Jakes and two hens snuck up at my 6:00.
I had to flip over on my belly and low crawl along a stone wall and then peek at them through a hole in the wall. They were coming right to me but hung up when the hens sat down....
I made a couple putts. One hen bum rushed me and the other flanked me and gave up my position to the boys. The big guys scooted away the Jakes stayed for a look around. I popped up over stone wall and shot him....Really wanted the big one, but a bird in the hand..... !
Congratulations to all who bagged one this spring!
Did anyone else think it was a weird season? Where were the birds?
I had one gobbler at 5:00am in Petersham on the 3rd day of the season and that was it.
No gobbles in night-before roosts in many places.
It felt like that to me as well- they went deep in the woods. And, funny thing is, I've thought about that...Well, we're hunters, why not just go deeper in the woods? But the logistics stink. A) you'd have to go in super deep to god knows where the night before to roost and prove a spot and B) you'd have find your way in the dark in the morning back to that spot- so get there at 3:30 or 2:30 instead of 4:30#@!It was indeed a somewhat unusual season. I would call, they would gobble back once, then complete radio silence. And as you, I was also having a hard time finding gobblers the night before. I think they unusual winter may have had something to do with it. They seem to be more comfortable hiding deep in the woods.
The best turkey hunter/caller I ever met and hunted with ( now deceased) once told me that sometimes you have to go sit in the woods and pull them out by their tail feathers. If I can’t get them into field I will sit in a flat spot on ridge above fields and work without decoys.It was indeed a somewhat unusual season. I would call, they would gobble back once, then complete radio silence. And as you, I was also having a hard time finding gobblers the night before. I think they unusual winter may have had something to do with it. They seem to be more comfortable hiding deep in the woods.