My hunting buddy and I went out on New Years Day for our last/first turkey hunt of the year. We had a real bad mast year this year. I have found a couple of trees with a couple of acorns but most of the trees were bare. As were the wild grapes and dog woods. Where we hunt it's National Forest on a north side of a good size mountain with foot hills. The National Forest has put in dozens of feeder fields and there are at least a dozen running creeks with about half a dozen ponds. We finally found "some" turkey sign at our last stop. We hit areas that always hold turkeys but saw none with no sign. I always hunt this area as does he and we have seen three turkeys during all the fall seasons. (he saw two gobblers during deer season and I saw one hen during squirrel season) Now this area is always populated with birds. Only thing I can figure is that they have moved a little bit north since the whole area we hunt is covered on the north side by fields on private property. Hope they come back before April.

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