Only missing 3. UTD!

Pm's have been sent out to our last 3.

Just finished a couple weekends of deer scouting and saw quite a few birds at one of my IL tag public properties. Full blown gobbling/strutting display by 5 mature toms with 15 hens. Glassed them right from my parking area. There are lots of crop fields there and my strategy is to hike perimeters of the remote fields the day before my hunt, and set up over the most active dust bowls. This has worked well in the past. Likely keep running/gunning to a minimum for a 4th season tag. The toms are far too wary by then. Decoys usually spook them off but never dust bowls! I miss watching them interact with the dekes but that's the reality at the properties I hunt........with the exception on my 1st two IL hunts.

Yea it seems they are getting started here early as well. Been pretty dang warm the last few weeks.


I'll be in Kansas trying with the stick and string the weekend of April 8th. Then it will be all runnin and gunnin after that. I'm just gonna have the weekends to hunt thanks to going back to school.

Checking in! I'll be hunting southern middle Tennessee, and northwest Alabama this year, and can't wait to get started! Good luck everyone!

Awesome Bibleman! Good to be hunting on the same team with you again!

Now we are just missing 2 and combined the 2 missing have a total of 4 posts. Might be a long shot to see them check in

Haven't seen a bird in 2 months, got a bad feeling about this season. usually they are out strutting by now. We'll see. On a lighter note whoever wants to step up for team Captain is fine with me. My computer skills are limited...My son gives me a hand when I need to post a picture.

I've been seeing birds on my trail cameras hitting the fields. Hopeful for this season. Hopefully work doesn't get too crazy and I'm able to get out!
-Jake

Luckily I just retired again so time off is not an issue, nothing to blame failure on but me for now. However I'm thinking up a whole new set of excuses to cover that!
Mick