2014 Season

March 15 – Opening Day – Heard about 12 different turkeys gobbling, and all but one were off of the hunting property.  Got to the one gobbling bird who was in an open hardwood area gobbling pretty well.  I approached the bird from a thicket and sat down where the thicket and woods meet thinking I could call the bird to the top of the knoll in the open area and get a shot.  I thought he would at least pop his head up to see where the hen was.  He never did.  I moved closer and called.  He wouldn’t come closer.  I moved closer again, and called.  This time I managed to get where I would be able to see him as he crossed back through the strut zone he had established.  He was about 20 yards from stepping into the part of his strut zone where I could see him when 2 hens approached him from the south, walked right past me, and took him away with them.  I never heard him again.  If I catch him in that strut zone again before I can get to him, I have figured out the best direction of approach now.  He will be a dead bird when I catch him there again!

Had a turkey gobble a few times in the late afternoon, but he was roosting in an area that I knew I would not be able to get to if the weather forecast was correct and we were to get a good deal of rain Saturday night/Sunday morning.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Be more aggressive/move to a better position quicker.  Take time to really study an area that a gobbler is using as his strut zone.  Can you beat him there?  Can you approach him if he beats you there and call him to you?  Make sure you know these things before hunting him again.

2. Hens are more appealing to a gobbler than you are.  Can’t beat them in the eye test.

Weather – Beautiful day with high temps around 70.  Little to no wind early.  Clouds moved in later in the day and the winds picked up.

March 16 – RAIN!!!!  A LOT OF RAIN!!!!  Slept in.  When rain stopped, went out for a few hours to try to get a turkey to gobble.  Had a turkey gobble sporadically around 10:30 – 11:15 on the neighbor’s property about 3/4 mile from the property line all the way across a 3/4 mile wide cut over.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Early morning rain sucks during turkey season!

2. Thunder makes turkeys gobble.

Weather – Temperatures in the mid 70’s and heavy rain and thunderstorms lasting until about 9:30 AM.  Cloudy afterwards.  Sun came out mid afternoon, and temperature heated up to near 80.  Rain again in the evening.  Didn’t get an opportunity to roost one.

March 17 – RAIN!!!!  AGAIN!!!!  Got up and dressed because the rain was light.  Went out for a walk between showers, and did not hear a turkey gobble.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Early morning rain sucks during turkey season!

2. Approaching cold fronts with 20 mph winds do not make for good gobbling days.

Weather – Temperatures in the early AM in the low 60’s.  Light rains and strong winds in the AM.  Cold front moved through mid morning, and temperatures fell into the upper 40’s.

March 18 – Cloudy, grey day with wind blowing. Temperature was in mid 50’s. Hunted in the early AM. No gobbling on club property. Birds heard gobbling sporadically early, then nothing on the ground.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Early season cold fronts suck when it comes to gobbling activity.

2. Early season gobbling can be little to nothing, but it will change.

3. Hunt despite the weather because you only need one turkey.

March 19 – Hunted Hollins Wildlife Management Area in Talladega National Forest. Had one turkey gobble about 10 times on roost. Flew down. Gobbled about 4 times as he climbed the largest mountain in East Central Alabama.  Went after him, but couldn’t catch him. Lots of gobbler/turkey sign at the top of that mountain.  Weather was cloudy and windy.  Highs in the 70’s. Lows in the mid 40’s.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Calling a gobbler back to a place he has already been when he is taking you on a death march is nearly impossible. If he has somewhere to go, then you had better just hope that you are in front of him.

2. The Talladega National Forest in East Central Alabama is beautiful, but VERY open in the early spring. It will be hard to call a turkey in there before the trees leaf out.

March 20 – Took a day off.

March 21 – Hunted late afternoon.  Roosted 2 gobblers on neighbor’s property.  Gobbled pretty well on the roost.  Weather was beautiful.  Partly cloudy and temp in mid 70’s.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. As Will Primos says, “Roosted ain’t roasted!”  No chance of hunting birds that are .5 miles from property line unless they are coming that direction anyway.

2. My friend Chip cannot hear.

March 22 – Turkeys gobbled well in the early AM, but not much gobbling after flydown. Had a productive afternoon hunt where we called in a longbeard and a jake. Turkeys gobbled about 4 times to a box call that Chip was cranking on. Demetrius shot first and killed the jake and I missed the longbeard… twice. We didn’t know one of the birds was a jake until we walked up to him.  Weather was hot.  High’s in the upper 70’s to 80.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. An afternoon hunt can be action packed in a hurry. If you can get a bird to respond and locate him, it can be a quick hunt.

2. My friend Chip cannot hear and can mess up a hunt because of it.  His lack of hearing makes him very conservative.

March 23 – Yep! Rain!  A lot of rain! Slept in and then went out after rain stopped. Didn’t hear a turkey, but did see a hen in a food plot. No fresh tracks in any roads yet.  Weather was cold and wet!  Temps dropped into the 50’s as the cold front moved through.  Clouds broke late afternoon. Demetrius roosted one at flyup. We’ll hunt him in the AM.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Check the fields and fresh cutovers after a rain as the turkeys like to get out of the wet woods and dry off and preen.

2. Passing cold fronts are not good for turkey gobbling.

March 24 – Cloudy and chilly morning.  Turkeys gobbled some on roost.  Not much after flydown, except for a rubbler (a running gobbler).  Didn’t hunt long as birds just were not gobbling much on the ground.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. You cannot catch a rubbler.  They gobble great, sometimes an insane amount, but they are steady on a mission to get somewhere (usually somewhere I’m not).

2. Early spring hunts can be frustrating when birds do not gobble on the ground after flydown.  Patience and persistence!

March 25 – Did not hunt as another cold front passed through.  Temp dropped during the day and wind gusts were near 30 mph.

March 26 – Beautiful cold morning. Temps in the low 20’s in Jemison. Did not hear a turkey gobble.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Even your honey hole can have its down gobbling days during the early season.

2. Jemison is the coldest place on the face of the earth (in Central Alabama).

March 27 – He shoots… He SCORES!! First turkey of the season down at 7 AM. Gobbled good on the roost, and about 6 times on the ground before he met a load of #4’s at 36 steps. Turkey had been shot before.  Looks like the wound is 10 – 14 days old.  Two pellets in one breast and one pellet in the bottom portion of the other breast. Guessing someone shot and missed and shot again as the bird was flying or running off as the pellet in the bottom of the breast entered the breast from behind. That tells me it was not the bird I missed. Weather was beautiful early, and winds picked up late morning. Winds blowing in the 20 mph range by late afternoon.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. You can call a turkey out of a field – at least if he is by himself.

2. Leaf scratching can bring in a wary gobbler who is not interested in leaving where he is.

3. Calling is more than making turkey calls. Scratch in the leaves and wing flap to catch a bird’s attention and add realism to your calls.

March 28 – Again?!?!?!  Rain at daylight. Hard rain! Stopped around 1:45 pm.  Went out for a couple of hours, but didn’t get a turkey to gobble.  Wind picked up after front moved through. Tough hunting conditions due to crappy weather.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Almost 2 inches of rain makes an already wet hunting club property even sloppier.

2. Cold fronts moving through during turkey season make for windy, mostly non productive days.

March 29 – Heard one bird gobble one time all morning long. Winds were blowing 15 – 20 mph at sunrise and gusting to 30 mph in the late morning.  Afternoon hunt took me to a piece of property I had not hunted this season.  Found some fresh sign.  Got a turkey to gobble 3 times, but he was across a very swollen creek on the neighbor’s property. He would not come across creek.  Had a conversation with a hen.  Winds died down and sun came out in the afternoon.  Sunday morning is promising.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Afternoon hunts are very exciting if you can get to the bird or he can get to you.

2. Don’t be afraid to spend an afternoon hunt scouting a piece of property that you haven’t hunted yet.  You may not want to waste a morning hunt on it, but it is worth scouting and hunting in the afternoon.

March 30 – Beautiful morning.  Heard good gobbling on the property I scouted the afternoon before, but all of the gobbling was across the swollen creek on the neighbor’s property.  Quickly left that area and went to an area where I had been hearing a bird gobble on the ground on the property line.  Got out of truck, hooted, and he gobbled just off the property.  I walked that direction, called, and he answered.  As I was putting together a plan on how I could hunt this turkey, the neighbor shot.  A turkey flew, and I could hear another turkey flopping.  I was much closer to that turkey than I thought I was, but he was still off of my hunting property.  Had to get back home for a birthday party, so there was no afternoon hunt.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. If nothing is happening on the piece of property you have signed out for or are hunting, move quickly to another area where you know there is some activity.

2. Be careful hunting near property lines as you don’t know where or what your neighbors may be doing.

March 31 – Another beautiful and cold morning.  Hunted at Coosa WMA in an area I have never hunted before.  Heard several turkeys gobble, but nothing very close to where I was hunting.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Some days are just not your days, but you have to get after the turkeys every chance you get.

April 1 – Another beautiful morning. Hunted at Coosa WMA again – this time in an area I was familiar with.  Heard 3 different turkeys gobble, but nothing within a half mile of where I was.  Saw some old turkey sign and know there are turkeys in the area.  Probably still pretty henned up.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Henned up, non gobbling turkeys will drive you crazy. It is probably time to get serious about “deer hunting” for turkeys.

April 2 – Took the morning off for work.

April 3 – Hunted with Chip in Eutaw, Alabama.  Did not hear a turkey gobble all day long!  Getting similar reports from others in the area that morning.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Sometimes they gobble and sometimes they do not.  Gotta stay after them.

April 4 – Another turkey hunting morning rained out.  These spring storms hitting Alabama seem to be hitting right at daylight every single day.  Hunted briefly once rain stopped mid morning.  Did not hear a turkey gobble.  Hunted Friday afternoon at my hunting camp.  Saw some fresh turkey sign, and had one turkey gobble one time on the roost… across the creek on the neighbor’s property.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. The grass is always greener and the turkeys always gobble better on the neighbor’s property.  I’m hindered by timber cutting on my hunting property.

April 5 – Beautiful morning to be outside and watch the sunrise.  Had a turkey gobble about 15 times on the roost on my property, but when we sat down and called to him he never made another peep.  Run and Gun tactics turned up no results and no gobbling.  Afternoon hunt waiting near roost site produced nothing.  Most likely the prettiest day of the season so far, weather wise, but produced no dead turkeys.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Henned up turkeys will eventually get un-henned up.  Stick with it!  They are getting close to being without hens and lonely.

April 6 – Another torrential downpour.  Slept in and went home.  Creeks are flowing over their banks and hunting property is getting flooded.  Hope there aren’t too many nests getting destroyed now because it may make for a brutal remainder of the season.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Sleep is good, but rain and thunderstorms sure make for bad turkey hunting mornings.

April 7 – Rain!  Flooding rain… literally.  No hunting.  Work and the wife were  sure happy to see me though.

April 8 – Beautiful, cold morning!  Hunted in the Coosa WMA.   Had my best hunt of the season, which did not result in a truck ride home for a wild American turkey gobbler.  Got up close and in his space.  He gobbled, and spitted and drummed for about 2.5 hours.  Was hesitant to move on him because of hunting public land and the amount that he was gobbling.  I was above him, and I thought he’d want to come strut on top of the hill I was on.  He’d played that game before, and he knew that he needed to be no closer than about 70 yards from a “hen” that he could hear and not see.  I’m very sure that if he were a private land turkey he would have been dead that morning, but he was not and is not.  I would have quietly crawled to the other side of the hill that I set up on as he was walking back and forth at the bottom of the hill and around the toe of the hill.  Since no turkey is worth getting shot over, he’s still there breeding hens.  I had to leave him to get to work for an appointment that I had to move back an hour because of a hot gobbling turkey.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Soft turkey sounds on public land in Alabama will prevent a gobbler from getting spooked.  Listen to the volume, cadence, and type of calling the hens around you are making and duplicate them.

2. Don’t be stupid!  If you and the turkey live another day, then at least you have that to look forward to.

3. Don’t schedule appointments before 11 AM during turkey season!  This should be lesson relearned #1.

4. Wet wipes are a turkey hunter’s third best friend, right after its cousin – toilet paper.  Bug spray is safely 2nd.

 

April 9 – Didn’t hunt, although it was a gorgeous day.  Frosty cold again.  Left for hunting camp that night.

 

April 10 – At hunting camp, turkeys are gobbling well on the roost, but if you aren’t setup on one soon after fly down then you may as well go home.  There is STILL no gobbling after fly down time.  I’m assuming the turkeys are still henned up, but I have no way to know for sure since I’m not really hearing any hens.  Played with a rat snake in the afternoon.  He was acting like a bad ass.  I’ll try to remember to post the video on YouTube and link it back here.  Pretty entertaining stuff.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. This sport can be so freaking frustrating sometimes, but you have to stay positive and stay after them.

 

April 11 – Birds again gobbling on the roost very well, and little to no gobbling on the ground.  Found a bird (ONE BIRD) gobbling after fly down.  He gobbled at a crow call after the turkeys I hunted at daybreak shut up.  We were like Lady and the Tramp eating that spaghetti noodle.  We split the distance, met in the middle, and I gave him a little kiss of #4 shot on the lips!  Selfie time!!  This was a very quick hunt from the time I heard him gobble at my crow call until I pulled the trigger.  I’d say 20 minutes total.  He drummed and gobbled coming in.  I’ll never cease to be amazed at how well a turkey can place a sound in the woods.  They know the exact leaf you are sitting on when you make that call.  They hopefully won’t see you sitting there, but they know a hen should be/was there.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. I have to believe myself sometimes.  Stay positive, stay positive, stay positive.  Finally, it paid off.

2. Turkeys have an incredible ability to place any sounds you make to the exact leaf you were standing/sitting on when you make that sound.

3. There must be some correlation between turkey gobbling activity and bowel activity. It is a proven fact that on the days when I use toilet paper in the turkey woods, I have a 72.33% greater chance of using a shotgun shell.  Crazy!

 

April 12 – Hunted with Eric, The Newbie, and Ethan, his Mini Me.  By far this was the best gobbling day of the season!  Turkeys gobbling on the ground finally!!  But that doesn’t mean there was a dead turkey because of it.  The closest we got to a gobbling turkey was about 100 yards.  We never sat down on a bird, but we sure walked far enough and worked hard enough trying.  Had an afternoon woodsmanship and turkey hunting setup lesson with Ethan.  He’s 12, and he is moving quickly into the Tenth Legion.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. It is not all about the kill.  The experience is why we go.  It’s awesome watching someone learn something about the outdoors,  God’s creations, and see things that they’ve never seen in the woods before – like sea shells.

2. I almost hope that no one ever figures out exactly what it is that causes a turkey to gobble better one day than another.  I have a feeling that if they do then I may only hunt on the days when the gobbling is good.  I’ll miss a lot of good days and good walks in the woods.

 

April 13 – Talk about the polar opposite of the day before!  Watched an amazing sunrise as the clouds moved in from the south right at daylight, and then the mist followed the clouds.  Turkeys gobbled very little, and only once or twice on the ground.  Just when I thought the birds were about to break from their miserable gobbling pattern after the activity Friday and Saturday, they go right back to the same old game.  Hopefully the weather has something to do with it.  Saw a hen in a field and made a stalk on her through the cutover.  She was gone when we got there.  Eric swears he heard a gobble just off of the field that we were stalking to.  He said that the bird was leaving the field, and that he was 3 years old.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Not everyone hunts the way you do, and not everyone can be guided.  Enjoy the experience!

2. Eric, The Newbie, can tell you how old a turkey is by hearing him gobble.  I wish he’d teach me.

 

April 14 – Rain!  Didn’t hunt. Got some work in.

 

April 15 – Tax day sucks!  But it was also travel day for me, so I didn’t hunt.  Left for the Atlanta airport to catch a plane to Greenville, NC to hunt with my buddies, Brad, Mitch, and Rem.  Had some pretty darn good Mexican food in Greenville so the turkey hunting will probably be good the next few days.  Cold front moved in after I arrived.  When we went in the restaurant it was in the mid 70’s, when we left the restaurant it was in the mid 50’s and raining.  Forecast is for some crappy weather tomorrow.

 

April 16 – HOLY COW!!  34 degrees with 20 mph Northeast winds with gusts to 30 mph makes for some cold ass turkey hunting.  Reminds me of my hunt in Nebraska when it snowed sideways one day – except that the turkeys did not gobble in NC.  I thought I was going to freeze to death.  Sat in a blind with Mitch over a field where he has had a lot of success.  We did not hear a turkey in the morning, and we jumped a hen as we were walking out to the truck.  Thank God for glass and heat in vehicles!

Afternoon hunt with Brad – saw a few birds in fields but couldn’t do anything with them.  They were henned up and uninterested.  The next 2 days look promising though.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Yankees don’t know nothing about Chicken N’ Dumplins.  They call it Chicken Pastry.  WTH!?!?!?

2. Yankees don’t know nothing about Nanner Puddin’ either.  They serve it warm.  WTH!?!?!?

3. People in NC don’t like being called Yankees.

4. Turkey hunting from a blind is not too boring when you have someone with you to chat with.

 

April 17 – Very cold again in the morning, but man alive does Brad ever have the turkeys on his hunting club.  Heard about 15 different turkeys gobble with some decent gobbling on the ground.  The woods were still very open there so we could not easily approach many of the birds we heard in the AM.  In the PM, I put a stalk on a bird in a field, but he disappeared before I could get into shooting range.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Many states who have more restrictive bag limits have LOTS more birds and better hunting than Alabama does.

2. The number of gobbling turkeys in NC is not far behind what you might hear in Missouri.

3. There’s a nasty a** girl working at a local eating establishment in the city of Scotland Neck, NC… People on Facebook are funny!

 

April 18 – Another cold morning, but it warmed up quite nicely.  Actually worked up a sweat while hunting for the first time in 3 days.  Heard about 12 different turkeys gobble at daylight, but most were on the neighbor’s property.  We thought we had one leaving the neighbors coming to us, but when he got within about 150 yards of us, the shut up.  Put a stalk on the shooting range turkey again, but he once again left the field before I could get to him.  The birds on this club are tough to hunt because there is so much water on the property.  The birds must seem to have a few canoes or kayaks around because they seem to get around in the water just fine.   Jumped a hen off of her nest of 8 eggs while walking and calling.  I hope that she doesn’t desert the nest.

Struck out in NC this time, but hopefully Brad will have me back to chase their birds again.  He hunts a beautiful piece of property, and there are tons of birds on it.  Got to the airport in Greenville around 3:30 for a 5:30 flight to Charlotte, then to Atlanta, then in the truck for a 3 hour drive to the hunting camp in SW Alabama.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. A successful turkey hunt does not necessarily result in the demise of a turkey.  Just like life, we should enjoy the small things while we hunt to be more happy.

 

April 19 – Arrived at the hunting camp at 1 AM after sleeping on the plane rides from PGV to CLT to ATL.  Weather was beautiful, and again the turkeys gobbled well on the roost and shut up after about 30 minutes on the ground.  I still can’t figure out what these turkeys are doing.  There is basically no gobbling up into the morning.  Got to a gobbling bird that was roosted about 100 yards from the property line, and he gobbled to my calling for about 45 minutes.  He was too smart to come to a hen that was calling him, and he was kind enough to gobble at me one last time while he walked off on the neighbor’s property.  At least I didn’t have to sit there thinking he was coming to me or he was standing in the same spot because he’d gone quiet.

High temperatures were in the mid 70’s.  Wind picked up during the day, but the breeze was nice to keep me cooler.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Courtesy gobbles can be very good or very bad for a turkey hunter.  The “I’m leaving now” courtesy gobble is a very generous gesture by a wild turkey Tom, but the “I’m over here in this 100 acre patch of woods” courtesy gobble is extremely frustrating.

 

April 20 – More of the same.  Decent roost gobbling with little ground gobbling.  Chased a bird up the property line in order to try to get in front of him, but I never could as he eventually got where he wanted to be on the neighbor’s property, and my hunt was over.  Probably a good thing as the Easter Bunny was waiting on me at the house.  Glad I got to see her for a few minutes before we went separate ways to family Easter dinners.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Really nothing except the same lessons that I’m getting every single time I go into the woods this season.  I will not give up on them though.

 

April 21 – Hunted the Coosa WMA.  Absolutely beautiful morning.  Heard one turkey gobble one time.  Got a good walk in up and down the hills and did some exploring outside my usual stomping grounds.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. No matter how many turkeys you have on your property (and Coosa WMA has a BUNCH of birds), if they don’t gobble, then they are sure hard to locate and kill.

April 22 – Woke up with a bad headache from the day before.  Took some ibuprofen and went back to bed.  Had the turkeys gobbled better the day before I would have gone again.  Instead I spent some QT with my lovely bride and got a headstart on my work day.  It was a gorgeous day, however.

 

April 23 – Didn’t hunt because I was leaving town that evening for the hunting camp, and I needed to get some work done prior to leaving.

 

April 24 – Arrived at the hunting camp around 11 PM Wednesday evening.  Pay dirt!  Actually got to a gobbling turkey just after flydown.  Sat down to call within 75 yards of him.  He was responsive until another turkey gobbled about 30 yards behind him and shut him up.  He never gobbled again.  Got back to camp around 9:30, and decided to check my game camera to see if there were some gobbler pics on it before working.  Took my laptop, shotgun, and diaphragm holder in the woods with me.  Sat on the ground, opened my laptop, pulled the SD card from the camera, and loaded it on my computer.  No pictures of gobblers.  Just a few pictures of two hens, a few hogs, a few coons, and a couple of deer.  An airplane flew over, and a turkey gobbled about 15o yards from me.  I pulled the card from my computer, loaded it back into the camera, turned the camera on, and packed up my laptop.  I called, and I got no response.  I called again, and the turkey cut me off.  I chose a spot to sit down where I was well hidden because the area where the game camera is very open.  I called again, and I waited.  About 10 minutes later, I saw the turkey coming from about 75 yards away.  He approached to within about 50 yards and was moving from my right to my left when he stopped behind a tree.  The turkey was going to come out from behind the tree and continue directly to my gun barrel and the perfect shooting lane at about 40 yards, so I anxiously waited for him to come from behind the tree.  He never did.  He stood there for about 5 minutes, and I was beginning to think that he had walked off keeping the tree between me and him.  I felt sure he had not seen me, but you never can tell.  As I was wondering if he’d left the area or not, he gobbled.  He was in the exact same spot where he stepped behind the tree – no closer, no further.  So, I waited because I didn’t want to call.  Over the next 5 minutes, he stood behind the tree and gobbled 3 more times.  Finally, he stepped out rom behind the tree, but he was moving back where he came from.  He stopped about 60 yards from me and gobbled again.  I was afraid he was about to leave the area, so I clucked to him 2 times.  He turned and started walking towards me again.  I shot him at 37 steps.  A great hunt!  This was exactly what I needed to get me out of the slump and get rid of the frustration I have been experiencing so far this season.  If I hadn’t missed two turkeys at the beginning of the season, I would be done with Alabama turkeys for the season.

In the late afternoon, I had two turkeys gobbing repetitively on the roost, and another one gobble one time.  I devised a plan to get to them the next morning.  I felt confident that I’d have a good hunt.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Airplanes are a great shock gobble call.  I need to learn to imitate a plane.

2. Knowing when to be patient and when to be aggressive is the key to being a successful turkey hunter.  Patience is the reason I killed the turkey today.  Well, a lot of luck and patience!

 

April 25 – Friday at Gatorhide.  Screwed up a good gobbling roosted turkey.

 

April 26 – Nice cool morning, with temps in the low 50’s.  Highs forecast in the mid 80’s.  Heard a couple of turkeys gobbling off of the property, and then went to another area of the property and listened to two turkeys gobble on the neighbor’s property there.  One of those two got shot.  In the afternoon, Todd heard two birds fly up.  I’m hopeful for the morning hunt tomorrow.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. I get excited for anyone who kills a turkey these days.  I used to get jealous, but that doesn’t happen very often any more.

 

April 27 – Still at the hunting camp in SW AL.  Heard one turkey gobble one time on the roost.  Walked for a little bit, and sat down to call.  Heard a turkey gobble 4 times on the neighbor’s property around 8 AM, but he wasn’t interested in gobbling at calls.  Will stay at the camp and hunt Monday AM.  With the weather forecast, it looks like Monday may be my last morning to hunt in Alabama this season.

Lessons Learned/Relearned –

1. Broken record, so I won’t repeat that I have to stay with them.

 


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