I am getting so discouraged. I am getting birds to respond and get close and then nothing. Never close enough to shoot. I cant tell you how many days since season started that i have been in the woods try to kill a turkey. Damn it is starting to get frustrating.

Well today it is raining like hell, so i figure well i will try to sit on a edge of a road and see waht happens. The whole forest was silent. So i am sitting there partially coverd in a blind and other part of me getting rained on. So i sit there and sit there calling about every 30 min. 3 hours go by one shows up way down the raod....and you got it, I couldn't call the bird in to save my life. Then to top it off about 3o minuets later i was starting to get restless and move one of my now lifeless legs and it sounds like a B-29 is flying over my head.... The damn bird was so close i could feel the turbulance off of its wings. Scared me so bad i almost crapped myself and about dropped my shotgun. Well after my near heart attack i packed it in.

I dont know if you all go through this your first year hunting turkeys but damn it is geting discouraging. I dont know if many of you had someone show you the ropes but i dont have that opprotunity. I am haveing to be self taught and i am not sure what i am doing wrong.

I read all of your posts and you all make it sound so easy.
Also, after about 9 am the birds shut all the way up. I have tried hunting them all in the after noon and nothin ever responds back.

Dont know how much more of this abuse i can take from these crafty birds. Hell my girlfriend is starting to wonder if i am even hunting...I keep comin home with a story and not a damn bird.

Thanks for letting me vent....

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