Mauser!

TerryM and I had a very similar situation today as well,you have to realize that it's the weekend and lot's of guy's are going to be out ,the best hunting I find is that of the mid week when you'll most likely find yourself actually alone in the wood's .
We started out at about 5:00am and were set to go for 5:30 ,the bird's were gobbling like crazy in all direction's ,so it appeared we were about to have a great morning .All of a sudden the bird's went pretty quiet ,except for 1 particular bird ,finally about 2 hour's later he appear's in the field behind us ,heading directly in our direction ,so it looked like a slam dunk until a deer came from the far side of the field and chased the turkey back into the wood's ,after a few minute's the deer had pegged us and left immediately into the bush ,the bird returned a few minute's later ,but this time he went the other direction,he was a dandy mature Tom and I fully expected for TerryM to finish the job . We were setup at the edge of a field and this was the first time my 9 yr old son Jared had ever wanted to go turkey hunting ,so this was important for me to show him what turkey hunting was all about . After the bird disappeared across the other side of the field 2 hunter's appeared from the opposite direction ,looking our way at our decoy ,since we were setup in a ground blind ,I was afraid that these guy's were about to shoot our decoy ,so I yelled at them to let them know we were there .But the hunt was over ,we knew that we weren't going to see any more bird's now .
We spoke with the hunter's whoDID have permission to hunt this property as well as we did, and they informed us that they had seen 2 other hunter's walking through the bush as well as ourselve's ,so I guess this kind of explain's why all the bird's we had heard earlier ,had disappeared .
This is the only property that I hunt that I've ever ran into any other's hunting ,soI guess I'm pretty fortunate that way .But I know how it can ruin one's hunt .
Keep trying ,but I'd maybe give it more consideration to try to hunt during the middle of the week ,I'm sure good thing's will happen for you REAL SOON.
You alway's have to think about safety while hunting bush's that other's hunt as well ,so no matter if there's a bird there or not ,you need to let the other hunter's know your there, your safety is more important than a turkey's ,the turkey may be gone ,but there's alway's another day to hunt .



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