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Age old question.
I could go home and do any one of a number of things I need to do around the house.
I could go home and go turkey hunting.
Either way it is a beautiful day.

Seems like a easy call to make (go hunting) but.....

I don't like to "deer hunt" turkeys.
The size of the property and the layout of the land would basically require me to go in and set up on the edge of a small field and just wait.
Of course if one gobbled to a call I could try to get close to his location and call him in just like a morning hunt but basically there is about a 90% chance that if a turkey is on the property I can hunt he will be in that small, back, secluded field.
Very little room to move around. It is right at 100 acres but I am gonna say the woods (in 3 seperate locations on the 100 acres) would total about 10 acres.
Feast or famine type deal.

Granted, if I don't go I won't kill one for sure.
If I do go, well the odds and my confidence are slim.

Ugggg.
 
Go! Deer hunting turkeys is not fun but beats working around the house!!


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RUGER":lxc1yvxq said:
Granted, if I don't go I won't kill one for sure.
If I do go, well the odds and my confidence are slim.
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Slim is better than none!
 
So what did ya do? I'd have gone. I used to hunt a 40 acre tract just down the road. Very flat and the woods were cedars but pretty open so kind of difficult to move around much. I killed quite a few over the years there. It actually taught me to be a more patient turkey hunter.
 
Well the last time I looked out at work the sun was shining and it was beautiful.
I left here, walked out and it was sprinkling.
Then the wind hit me. :shock:

By the time I got home it was a full blown thunderstorm with warnings on the radio and the whole nine yards.
Remembered I had a movie I had to take back and by the time I did that and ran a couple more errands I forgot about I was out of the mood enough that walking through that muddy field just didn't appeal enough to me to make me go.
 
I'm passing on it this year too. I have only 27 acres but it doesn't take a lot of land to kill a turkey. But in my area things are really grim - no birds on the trail cams or visual - so I'm just gonna work on my food plots and keep the corn flowing for the deer. I plan on putting some chufa in too at some point and see if I can get the birds (if there are any) to stop by for a bite to eat more often. I do miss the hunting though. Maybe next year.
 

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