Slow start to the season...

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I've been out 4-5 times so far. I have hunted 3 different spots. I am seeing hens but have yet to see a tom or even hear a gobble. I'm not discouraged yet...just ready for some action. Not sure this post has much of a point...just venting to some degree I guess.
 
It happens and just be patient. My season started off on fire with 3 dead ones and a miss all last week. This week has been horrible, I've not called to a single bird nor even come close to setting up on one. A little roost gobbling, but overall the woods have been completely dead where I hunt.

Even as henned up as the birds are around here, I still can usually make something happen. Not right now, it is total lockdown.
 
I feel like at some point I will go on a run...will just be glad when it starts...haha. I've only been turkey hunting a couple of years...it came a little too easy early on thanks to some good friends...this year I'm having to earn it.
 
went to a new place this morning...mainly 2 open pastures with thickets around them. I saw 8 hens but no tom. Think I'm gonna go back around 2:00pm and hunt for a couple hours when the kids and wife are down for their naps.
 
I have been a total of 3 times. Working for a livin sucks. Looking forward to the morning should start getting better and more vocal I heard 2 last Saturday one worked for a little ways heard hens and he was done.
 
I believe this may be the latest I've seen so many birds still "flocked up" more in a winter pattern. This is on top of the Toms being "henned up".

Normally by now, the longbeards would be more scattered around the countryside. But they're still mainly in groups of 3, 4, 5 and more rather than by themselves or a group of two. May have something to do with spring running late. The appearance of redbud blooming was about a month later this year than last year.
 
My farm is same way. Total lockdown! Its been that way for 2 weeks now. I went in yesterday at 11, at 3:30 4 hens came into field. They dusted on edge of field then just laid in the shade in the field til 6;30 kinda looking around. If 4 hens can't get no action,.. I sure can't!! I have not heard a gobble there since opening weekend. And I had the whole 1st week off.
My other place to hunt is on fire!! They are henned up bad, but at least they gobble. They will gobble with hens, gobble at crows, woodpeckers, car doors, heck I think I farted once and they gobbled!LOL! I got within 60 yards of a good one this morning, but I know my guns limit and that's to much.
Really strange the difference between the 2 places.
 
deerchaser007 said:
My farm is same way. Total lockdown! Its been that way for 2 weeks now. I went in yesterday at 11, at 3:30 4 hens came into field. They dusted on edge of field then just laid in the shade in the field til 6;30 kinda looking around. If 4 hens can't get no action,.. I sure can't!! I have not heard a gobble there since opening weekend. And I had the whole 1st week off.
My other place to hunt is on fire!! They are henned up bad, but at least they gobble. They will gobble with hens, gobble at crows, woodpeckers, car doors, heck I think I farted once and they gobbled!LOL! I got within 60 yards of a good one this morning, but I know my guns limit and that's to much.
Really strange the difference between the 2 places.
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Same thing where I'm hunting, haven't heard a gobble since opening weekend. Hens roaming around everywhere and tracks all over but just can't seem to get in the right place at the right time.
 

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