Wouldn't it be nice if May want slower, was about 90 days instead of 31, and it took about 80 of those days for vegetation to green-up?
Today is Pennsylvania's last day. I saw a cuppla hens out in the field around 8:00 this morning, at about 300 yards. Neither showed interest in my calls. And no gobbler showed interest in either the hens or my calls. Also, I've had a trail camera set up for almost a week, with nothing on it but a woodchuck and a hen with four poults. Earlier in the season gobblers were roosted here, but now it seems like the gobblers are holed up in the thick stuff where, if they gobble, the sound gets pulled back in like it has the gravitational pull of a black hole. Seems like gobblers want nothing to do with hens now.
This spot will be terrific next year, as it has been for the last six years I've been hunting it. It was good this year, too. I got a gobbler on May 10, even though I've heard gobbling from the roost only twice. Weird year, yes.
All in all a good season. I hunted 21 or 22 days, and it was never hard to get up in the morning. I shot a mid-morning gobbler, which was gratifying. (I get more of them off the roost.)
I sold one of my
Northern Scratchbox calls to a guy on Sunday, and on Monday he called in a big late-season gobbler with it. (Unfortunately, too bad he missed the bird, but that's not my problem.)
Are there any states with turkey season still open after May 31?
Tomorrow, to the doctor for him to tell me what my brain scan said last week. (Seeing double in my right eye.)
Steve.
