got to have fun

[strutnrut]

Up here we have a winter season (breadless only) to help manage the hens.

Yesterday they opened one of my favorite area and I called in sick (cough cough)it was 29 degrees with a light wind.
 
I walked back to this ridge that holds a lot of turkey and got setup by this nice big oak tree. A clucks and yelped on a trumpet with no response so I stroked a yelp or two out of a hen box and cut on the box and about 75 yards down the ridge Mr Tom fired back I yelped and clucked and here they come running the race was on to see which could get there first. Now I wasn't hunting gobblers but don't mean a man can't have a little fun. I let them walk off behind a tree top and sofly clucked on a yelper and he let me know HEY here I am. I kept them hanging around for about 20 min or so and let them leave. I easied out of there and decided to see if maybe some hens might come up out of the bottoms to see what all of the fuss was about. I circled around them a couple hundred yards and set up again. I took out a little copper pot I got from Morgan and yelped and clucked and he did it again. Next thing I knew he was 15 yards at half strut and looking hard. I let them walk off and decided I had enough of the cold and left for the truck. Never heard a hen. March needs to hurry up.

[GSLAM95]

Sounds like a great morning in the woods!

[callmakerman]

Sounds like a fun day to me. Just be glad your not hunting in over a foot of snow with the temps in the upper 20's like we have here in central NY. YUCK

[M Sharpe]

Sounds like a fun morning. Sure hope you get over that bug. You probably won't though. They say that once you are infected, you don't get over it.

[K]

never made it up there this year,, ,,next year the lil one will be a lil older so i should get to put more miles on the jeep...


..Richard you might want to warn the turkeys now so they have plenty of time to prepare.....