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Strange season for sure (where I hunt). My regular Turkey area in 81A is dry right now, the local birds have moved out. Hunting is sometimes a 6/49; you cannot win if you do not play.
So, last Monday I went to another spot which did not produce much in the past down years. But, spotted three Jakes from a long distance, called them right in, they budged in quietly, and was happy to drop one at 15 yards.
Tomorrow will go out with my bow, and invited a new hunter for his first Turkey hunt.
Keep at er! I noticed from my trip this past week, that certain areas seem to be "ahead" of others in terms of gobbling, and answering / coming to the call, others the birds are henned right up and have no interest in leaving what they have for something else.
I tagged out after three hunts but I owe it entirely to one farm that I hunt having a lot of turkeys, and mostly males. Our other spots, that were productive in years past, are really quiet. Good luck Splaker, keep at it.
I have 2 hens wandering around every day where I am and not a male to been seen or heard
Only been out once (opening weekend) . After a little r&r this past week in Costa Rica hoping to get out and fill my first turkey tag this week. Good luck to all & keep hunting hard.
Im in the blind
Only 1 turkey seen....and it's the turkey holding a gun =)
Toms are hanging up on me at about 50-60 yards, decoy or no decoy. Jakes run right in to the call, and even had a hen yelping circles around my tree, but Toms are being super cautious.
Had a weird hunt last Friday.
Landowner seeing birds so I set up in the spot. Set decoys out, 2 hens and a jake. Only bird I hear is a hen at dawn. Had thought another hunter she was that loud. So she comes into my set up with 3 others. The other 3 go away. Miss Loudmouth, squats 15 feet from my jake and I think, waits for him to breed her. No chance. So she gets up and moves around every 15 or 20 minutes to a new spot within 20 feet of the decoy. Doesn't say a word as she's already in love. Finally gets up and moves on about 830, yelping the whole way. But, I'm not hearing anything in response and never did see a Tom the whole morning or early afternoon. Gave up at 3 and came in. Almost 12 hours in the woods with only 1 thermos of coffee, tired and hungry.
Just saying, no reponses with a loud real hen like that and let her stay in my decoys for live action, but nothing happened, really weird season to say.
TJ
I'm tagged out as well. 7 hunts in 10 days, 3 different properties, produced 3 birds for us. I found the Toms were always with hens, but getting between them and the hens right after they flew down from the roost was the ticket for each bird. All our birds were shot before 7am.
Turkeys are still really henned up in my area. I also can't seem to get these things patterned the least little bit. They roost all over the place, hardly ever roost on the 2 properties I hunt which happen to be adjoining each other. I've also found 2 dead turkeys from the excessive amount of coyotes and the only time I see a coyote is when it's 100+ yards away.
Yesterday was my first day back in the bush after taking a few days to reflect on the past hunts and let the frustration settle. Got out and set up by 5am, had 3 gobblers going bat crap crazy at every little noise, between myself and them they were about 1/2 kilometre away and that 1/2 kilometre consisted of 2 fields and a road along with 3 fences so of course I just assumed they wouldn't come towards me, WRONG!! Not only did they come in my direction they came to within 200 yards but also brought a hen with them and decided I wasn't good enough to hang with. By "they" I mean 1 tom and 2 jakes.
I am going to keep at it but man this is getting ridiculous.