My first day to hunt, which was the second day of the Arkansas season in April, was questionable. It started raining lightly as I was driving to the woods and by the time that I got there roughly 30 minutes before daylight, lightning was cracking everywhere. The thunderstorm kept me in my little trailer until nearly 9:00. It was still sprinkling a little when I finally walked on up the ridge and I mentally thought that the day was a " washout" but decided that I would give it a shot anyway. Well, I set up on the ridge top and started clucking lightly and heard a distant gobble. A little while later, I hit my Lohman' s pump yelper and the two big toms came on in quickly with it still drizzling lightly off and on. I got one of them! Three days later it was right at 32 degrees early that morning and we actually had a few light snow flurries. About 11:00 (still in the lower 30' s), I called in a trio of gobblers close but couldn' t quite get the right shot due to the brush and terrain. In late April, I went hunting the morning after a night of rain and thunderstorms and the wind was pretty bad. It settled down a little (probaly 10 m.p.h.) later that morning and I again called in a pair and harvested one of them. Thus, I had multiple good experiences in less than perfect weather this year. Turkey are like other animals in that unsettled, rapidly changing weather (as long as not too severe) is stimulating and motivating. They particularly like to " shock gobble" at thunder! Thus, don' t let moderately bad weather keep you out of the woods! " You don' t catch fish with your line out of the water" . Roll the dice.