Feeding corn

[4onaside]

Its been a tough enough season for me, without helping the turkeys to spend their time elsewhere and away from my hunting place. However, the bird that I was finally able to kill yesterday had fresh corn in its craw! There are no farms anywhere in my vicinity, and even if there were, there would not be corn that was consumed within the past couple of days. The only "open" areas (fields)in turkey walking distance is a large place just to the south of us. While I obviously can't say that these people are hunting over bait(they are hunters), I wish they would confine their turkey feeding activities to other times of the year other than during the turkey season!

 

[4onaside]

I was wondering how you were doing. I took my boy to Ultimate Sportsman's Adventures Saturday to shoot sporting clays and I figured I passed your farm somewhere along the way. We had birds the first 2 weeks of the season, but all we have seen lately is hens that are nesting in the fields. I will be after them Fri, Sat, and Sun. Hope they are gobbling, or at least in the area.

How is that place? I come in off the new highway to a T intersection(duck road, duck farm road, and franks road) and turn south on franks road.I doubt if you came by my gate, unless you are a glutton for punishment, as the all gravel road has taken a huge hit from the flowing water. I have not heard a gobble all season, have only had a bird for the first time in range last week, a jake that came to my call at 4 in the afternoon, and he made me as I was moving around in my pop-up blind to get in position to shoot him! lol Yesterday at 11:30 3 jakes came in silently behind me and went straight to my dekes, and I shot one. I have not seen a long beard on us all season, although my son watched one up in the day in one of our fields a couple of weeks ago. How was your success the first 2 weeks of the season? Even if I could, I wouldn't try to tag out on jakes, but since I have not had any longbeards respond, the next one year old that comes in is in serious trouble. You know, I unlike many have absolutely no reservations about killing a jake or two. I killed a 4 year old year before last and even the breasted meat looked old, darker, etc. So if you are in the sport for the hunt and also like to eat what you kill, a make legal bird is great. But, I'm old school. NO HENS, EVER! LOL

 

[4onaside]

Well, a lot of my "struggling" is self inflicted! lol Between a church event every other day, grandkids ballgames(which for me takes precedence over any turkey hunts!)and the weather, I really haven't gone that much for a retired guy. And, like someone else mentioned on the forum, it seems like when I did go, the wind was blowing 40mph. But patience is a virtue of mine, and I can sit in a blind for hours, 4,5 or even 6 hours at a time, and still enjoy, and sooner or later a bird happens by. lol, lol. I call blind periodically, and expect one to respond to my calling, and sooner or later, one does. However, we just haven't had the turkeys. I might have mentioned, that we had very good numbers until up in January, and since then, very few. They are probably on my neighbor to the south eating golden acorns. At any rate, I'm glad that you guys have been successful, and you know what...I have been too. If I kill one, thats just the icing on the cake. Good luck this weekend.