I hunted again Saturday morning May 2 and heard one bird gobbling. Set up on him by 6 a.m. and gave a few soft yelps. He gobbled back. Then I shut up, and never heard from him again. I tried calling 30 minutes later, but he was MIA. And that was all he wrote. Where I’m hunting the bird numbers must be really down. They haven’t seen hardly any birds feeding in their fields compared to the past few years, and in 2 days of hunting, I’ve heard one gobbler.
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I hunted on the first Saturday of gobbler season, but didn’t hear a single gobble. The wind was horrible. Busted one bird off the roost while walking in, but I couldn’t tell if it had a beard or not. It was probably a 4-year old tom with 2″ spurs and a 12″ beard. I did watch 3 hens feed in a clearing from about 100 yards away and kept hoping that a gobbler would walk in, but it never happened.
I was going to hunt on Sunday, but the forecast said that the wind was going to be even worse, so I slept in. I plan on heading back out this weekend. Stay tuned …