Team 4 The Rejects
03-13-2017, 05:11 AM
#13
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: LaPorte, IN
Posts: 1,111
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.
Last edited by Zim; 03-14-2017 at 03:18 AM.
03-13-2017, 06:17 AM
#14
Super Moderator
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Choctaw, Oklahoma
Posts: 1,348
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.
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.
03-16-2017, 05:53 PM
#18
Fork Horn
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: south carolina
Posts: 265
Doubtful
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.
