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I didn't even get up to go yesterday with all the talk of storms when I went to bed. Turns out it hardly rained and i squandered an opportunity. Well morning #6 was weird. I've been fortunate that I've heard and worked birds on my previous trips. Well not today. I got a dose of what many of you have been talking about throughout the season. No birds gobbled on their own. I shocked one gobble just after daylight and within 15 seconds the wind blew hard from a dead quite to 15-20 mph at a snap of a finger. That was it not another peep. Rain came temps dropped and I froze. Didn't take a extra jacket.
I hope the front is the culprit for the silence. I should have 6 more chances to try again and expect it will get more challenging. A lot changes in a weeks time. Hopefully Saturday morning the weather will be nicer.
Any of yall experience this today?


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Today was a garbage day to be in the woods where I was. Supposed to clear off turned into a 48 degree wind driven drizzle squall that lasted all dang day. The fog/drizzle was so thick I could see maybe 20 feet.

I was in this place last Saturday and heard an untold number of birds, killing one almost immediately after fly down. This morning not a single peep until on a whim I called at 7:30, a bird ripped me after three notes into a yelp sequence. I followed up a minute later and he hammered again, but close. A few minutes go by and I'm straining to see through the fog when I hear a putt to my right, there he stood basically in my lap. I literally couldn't see him until it was too late. Hunt over, woods were so wet he slipped in like a phantom, and the precip made him essentially invisible against the dark wet leaves on the forest floor.

The two gobbles from him were the only two I heard in 9 hours in the woods. The last few days/week birds have gobbled off and on all day.

Weather shut them down no doubt in the part of the world that I hunt. It's like winter right now
 
Wow 48 with rain and wind would been even worse. It was 53 where I was and by 11:00 I couldn't take it anymore. The fog was terrible it rose up from the hollers and visibility like you said was non existent. I couldn't keep the lens on my optics wiped off enough to look thru.


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Wow 48 with rain and wind would been even worse. It was 53 where I was and by 11:00 I couldn't take it anymore. The fog was terrible it rose up from the hollers and visibility like you said was non existent. I couldn't keep the lens on my optics wiped off enough to look thru.


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I froze today, every tree you bumped showered water down and like an idiot my rain gear was in the truck 4 miles away and 1200 ft drop in elevation. Big thanks is in store to the weather idiots.

Yesterday was a joke as well, wind blew 30 mph all day. I did manage to fill my second KY tag though on a lonely bird around 2:30.
 
I know what mean on the rain gear lol. I've met a gentleman on Facebook that has many years of turkey hunting behind him that posted the other day about being prepared in the woods for rain. He carries a military survival poncho which would cover me, gun and my calls and roll up to nothing. I decided I wanted one. I run to the surplus store after work Friday and they had shutdown that morning to start their 2 week move to another location in town. Just my luck.

Congrats on the kill yesterday.
My dad was able to scrape one up this am as well before it got to cold.

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Saturday, woke up at 4:00 and laid in bed for 15 minutes trying to convince myself that the rain was going to head north of Knoxville and I should just go back to sleep. Ended up getting up and going. Left rainjacket in car and was wet and cold. I heard my first and only really faint gobble at 10:00 way down in a hollow. I was too cold and miserable to chase after it. Pussed out and hiked back to the car.

Sunday, woke up at 4 and was out the door in 15 minutes. It was the same weatherwise as Setterman. I hiked back to where I'd heard the gobble from the day before. As the sun came up, there were several gobblers around me just hammering it. I heard pretty consistent gobbling until 10 today despite the weather. I just failed on my end of the deal. This was the first day of "good hunting" I've had this year. I'm really looking forwards to the next couple weeks.

4-wheelers were out in full force today. It sounded like a bunch of cockroaches scurrying around the mountainside.
 
Sounds like you were on them this morning BB . I hope it works out there for you. Good luck.


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Sounds like you were on them this morning BB . I hope it works out there for you. Good luck.


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Thanks. I still haven't figured out what I did wrong to not get a bird to commit, but it sure was nice listening to them sing after they flew down.

Hopefully your luck turns around.
 
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Sounds like you were on them this morning BB . I hope it works out there for you. Good luck.


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Thanks. I still haven't figured out what I did wrong to not get a bird to commit, but it sure was nice listening to them sing after they flew down.

Hopefully your luck turns around.
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Glad you had some action this morning, for me it's been a very tough season around here. The birds will not talk most days, and many times the ones that do act totally bizarre. I've been somewhat fortunate though, that the birds I've gotten to respond as they should have died.

As much as I voice my dislike for stuff, 4 wheelers are by far my most hated thing, I despise them and the people that ride them while trying locate turkeys deserve a special place in hell. It's so selfish and rude their tactics that it makes my blood boil thinking about them.
 
Buzzard Breath":2iitno6p said:
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Sounds like you were on them this morning BB . I hope it works out there for you. Good luck.


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Thanks. I still haven't figured out what I did wrong to not get a bird to commit, but it sure was nice listening to them sing after they flew down.

Hopefully your luck turns around.
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Thank you. I was a little concerned this am that the local good ole boys that lived there their whole that used to hunt there and think they still can may have been plucking a few from the flock during the week when no one is around. I wouldn't be surprised at all.


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I haven't really been able to go for over a solid week except Fri. morning. Weather was great and steady for the second day in a row with the morning low around 42. Didn't hear a single gobble from the roost. I figured they'd crank up later in the morning....nope! Stayed till 11 when I had to leave to be somewhere else and still hadn't heard the first bird. Really odd for the area I was hunting. Definitely a strange year. Hopefully I should be able to get after them again this week.
 
Setterman":2fleahv9 said:
Today was a garbage day to be in the woods where I was. Supposed to clear off turned into a 48 degree wind driven drizzle squall that lasted all dang day. The fog/drizzle was so thick I could see maybe 20 feet.

I was in this place last Saturday and heard an untold number of birds, killing one almost immediately after fly down. This morning not a single peep until on a whim I called at 7:30, a bird ripped me after three notes into a yelp sequence. I followed up a minute later and he hammered again, but close. A few minutes go by and I'm straining to see through the fog when I hear a putt to my right, there he stood basically in my lap. I literally couldn't see him until it was too late. Hunt over, woods were so wet he slipped in like a phantom, and the precip made him essentially invisible against the dark wet leaves on the forest floor.

The two gobbles from him were the only two I heard in 9 hours in the woods. The last few days/week birds have gobbled off and on all day.

Weather shut them down no doubt in the part of the world that I hunt. It's like winter right now
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Yesterday was terrible. The two birds we were hunting didn't gobble a single time on the roost or on the ground. We hunted early, but decided it was best to go get breakfast and wait for the fog to clear. Well, it never really did until after lunch. I didn't hear a single gobble after fly down.
 
There were strutters yesterday morning and afternoon but we couldn't make it happen on the boss bird. Today the weathers nicer but I went to another spot tryin to strike one


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I hunted all day 4 am start and killed at 4:09 pm hear 4 gobbles all day. There were 7 gobblers roosted in there, they gobbled hard Friday but Saturday was a different story, yesterday hear 1 ,I think, at daylight hunted til 3 pm seen jakes 1 gobbler.
 

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