Turkey season is opening up!! Yessah! Tomorrow is youth day here and Monday is the start of our season! It has been a long wait for this to get here. It almost seams like it gets to be a longer waiting period each year with all the southern states already hunting for them! Hopefully I will get a chance at one on Monday..

Thanks guys I am hopeful that I can get a bow shot at one in the morning. One will wander threw the back field every once and a while..

This morning is opening day and I will be at it trying to get a long beard to show itself. I am planning on hunting in the back field for a while this morning. Hopefully one of those big birds will still be around..

Good luck Jake..

I had four deer come out by me while I was setting in my blind. One of which came in close and started stomping and blowing at me. Then they all trotted off. A short time later that big Tom came by me. He strutted and gobbled up a storm but wouldn’t come in for a bow shot. Then two hens came along and he chased them out of the field. So I changed my decoy set up and hoping to see him again. He was seen yesterday going threw the field around 5 ish . So hopefully he will be back and give me a bow shot. I did see a hen go running back down the field. So he shouldn’t be to far away. No matter it’s been a great morning to be out here..

You can still get them in a rain. They are less vocal from what I have found. But I have gotten a few on rainy days. Good luck to you.

I am seeing them and they are not coming in on my decoys at all right now. Yesterday while sitting in my blind I watched one walk up the road. He gobbled like crazy and strutted all over it. I don’t own where he was and vegans do. But he wouldn’t come in for a bow shot. Two hens came along and he chased them up across the field. Last evening I gave up and went in to eat. The darn bird walked right by our kitchen window. Today I had to work so I set for him this evening. Yessah he walked right down the road and ignored my decoys again. I have had hens walk right beside my blind but not the toms. I had a relative send me a picture of two toms out back this morning go figure. I will keep at him and maybe just use the hen decoys. I don’t know why he avoids them.

Well I fired at a big bird with my bow this evening. I cut him off and he was around 15 yards from me. He dodged the arrow somehow. I thought for sure that I would of had him. But no deal.. Now I am wondering if he will come back again? I am hoping so or another one will come take his place..

Once the flock breaks up the activity becomes less. That’s exactly what happens here every year. Two weeks ago there was seven big toms out back. Now there is one or two showing up. Maybe after this evening there will be none going threw? I don’t really know what to say about my missing that one this evening. But the birds will still come out in the rain..

One of the two year olds was shot on the next street over and I have seen any of them out back anymore. But I was still hearing gobbles early in the morning. That has stopped now. I am thinking because they are all hened up now. I went and sent out for two of the DSD hen decoys to see if that will help when they get moving again. I figured that a couple of more hens would not hurt anything.. Good luck guys..

Well I have been after them and still no luck. So I went to a different area and saw five nice long beards together. I tried calling them and they take off the other way go figure. I think that maybe those ones have already been hunted hard? I am not sure what’s going on with them. No matter where I try there is no gobbling going on right now. I still have until June first to get it done though.. Good luck everyone that is still out there hunting..

I tried my luck again this morning and three birds came in silently. One was a long beard and one was a jake. The other one I couldn’t get a good look at as they spotted me first. All three ran together and when they started separating I fired at what I thought was the bigger Tom. I ended up shooting the jake instead.. While it wasn’t the bird that I wanted to get I am still happy with it. It has a different colored beard on him though.

Thank you and good luck!

Thank you Jake and I am hoping to get a bigger bird before our season ends..

Okay RR that must be what they mean by beard rot? That fungus will rotten that part of the beard and rotten it until it falls off. Thanks because I have never seen it myself.

Thanks again as I have never seen it before and just thought it was some kind of freaky color change in it. The tagging station never had one come in looking like that either. So that is a very informative subject. I have heard on here a lot about beard rot but never really seen it or in its early stages. So thanks everyone. I am always trying to learn stuff from here..