I don't know what's worse, the anticipation of opening day or logging on each day to hear and see your stories. Season is over in MO and some of you guys are still hunting, absolutely killing me!!!!!!! Good luck!!

Some of us I am sure felt sort of like that watching everyone putting down birds and we had to wait our turn as well. Even worse is seeing all the birds here and couldn't shoot any and now trying to find their hiding places.. LOL Thanks for the good luck wish!

Good Luck snapper if you do decide to hunt in another state for birds! Matter of fact good luck to all of us that are still out there hunting!

I am heading out in the morning even though we are supposed to get rain showers for the next 3 days.. I am thinking even the weather man is not going to stop me now.. LOL That is unless it is a steady down poor and windy I may have to think it over.. But, I am still planning on heading out there for a while each morning..

Good luck in the morning Phil! Sometimes a change in the weather can be just what ya need.
Sweet Snapper! What state are thinkin of heading to?

Sorry guys no luck this morning.. I did see a hen as well as 2 more toms but could not get a shot at either one of them.. I also saw one that I could not say for sure if a tom or hen.. The weather was nasty this morning. Tomorrow I hope is a little better with the weather man calling for showers instead of rain... I will be back at it again in the morning.. I wish we could hunt for the full day as the rain has stopped for now..

Did Phil go hunting today or bad weather?

I am pulling for you Phil!!!
I got a feeling he is gonna get a bird soon. And then we will never hear the end of it.lol


Who else is still hunting?

John

Yeah, I went all right and got pretty darn wet as well.. LOL I gave it a good try and on the way back I saw a tom a quite a ways back form the lines I have been hunting. Right by a "Y" in the road it ran across the road.. Another one to think about.. My guess is it is one of the ones I saw on the line last weekend following the hens who are most likely setting on the nests with this rain we have been getting..

No worry about not hearing the end of it though as most our birds are doing something if they cross the 20lb. mark up this way. But there has to be a few that do..

Good luck Phil! Think the birds are about done here by the way i've heard they been acting. Fishing is pickin up tho, couple walleye in the freezer already and big lake fishin by next weekend!!

Last year I thought the birds were done and right in the middle of June I saw a tom with three hens go running.. They started last year a lot earlier as well. I guess you just never know.

Update of this morning is the same old song and dance.. Close but no cigar. I saw 8 hens while I was traveling up threw that area today. Also a bird this morning in thick fog so I could not tell whether it was a hen or a tom. On the way back I swung out to another area on those lines. I had the jeep this time and decided to walk about 40 yards to see in any signs were there. I looked down over the ridge I was standing on and wouldn't you know it. A Tom and a hen right below me with my shotgun setting in the jeep.. OUCH!!, That one hurt I snuck back to the Jeep and grab the shotgun loaded it up and grab my box caller. I tried to sneak back and bumped my box caller. When I got there the hen was still wandering around I stayed put and looked for the tom. I see him running around 60 yards away and all at once he flies off?? I have no idea why he flew but, the hen goes walking back into the woods on the opposite side then where the tom flew. I am not sure if he will be back in the morning or not but, I decided to move my blind into there and send a couple of quick calls as I leave. Hopefully he will be back in the morning and give that chance to bust a cap on him..

Updated again, This time I moved my blind in there and it will most definitely be staying there until either I tag out or the end of turkeys season which ever happens first.. While setting up my blind I noticed an awful lot of fresh droppings along with a few from a bear. While I have no idea why that tom flew from there I do feel quite confident he will be back. If not another tom will be moving in. Also on the way up I saw at least 7 or 8 or baby birds in like a circle in the middle of the road. I am not sure if they were turkeys or grouse. I am thinking that they were young grouse as they were still very small. It was pretty cool to see that.
Good Luck everyone that is still out there hunting for them.

I went to give it a try this morning again. I was messed up by getting called in last night to help keep the machine running. That caused me to be running late this morning. I finally got myself heading out by 6 ( hunting starts here @ 20 minutes to 5 ) and I see an old man walking. I stopped and asked if everything was ok. This guy I learned threw our conversations is 77 years old.

He then informed me that he and his wife spent the night in a side road stuck in the mud. He had just gotten out of the hospital 2 days earlier and his wife is a diabetic and needs her insulin. She also had fallen when they both got out to walk and hurt her back and hip.

He asked if I had a cell phone to call a warden with. I had asked him about calling 911 but, he thought that would not be needed. This guy had walked 45 minutes just to get to the road I travel on. While I had my cell phone I did not know the wardens phone number. So I called a friend who happened to have it. I got a hold of the warden and he came up and talked with us and asked if I could stay there with this guy who I already had in my truck so he could keep warm. He stated he wanted to check on the guys wife. He also stated another warden was on the way. He had to come in from route 9 which took him about an hours drive. He finally got there and stated that threw the radio conversations his wife was going to be ok. So he picked up the old fellow and took him in with him. He thanked me for helping the old fellow out and shook my hand as well as wished me good luck with the turkeys.

I finally am on my way in to my blind! I get there and set up my decoys. I call a few times and just wait. By now there is a lite rain coming down so I just sat in my blind and waited. I called a few times and nothing answered. As I was getting ready to leave a hen shows up. But the tom is no where to be seen. So I know the hen is staying there and I hope the tom shows back up. Sorry guys but this is not going as planned. Hopefully things will be changing this coming week!

Good Luck to every one still out there hunting!

Proud of ya Phil for putting the turkeys on the back burner in order to help someone out!! Don't worry about the turkeys, they'll show. I wasn't sure if I was going to get out this weekend due to graduations and Mothers Day but the son wanted to go hunting. So we went and as we go there I seen a hen walking into the trees. And with the wind really strong I wanted to go there but he wanted to go to a different spot. So we did and after we got set up in the blind, 20 minutes rolled around and he was ready to go home. I understand his boredom but I was disappointed at the same time. Oh well I guess. I still have til the end of May so I'll still try to get out when I can.