Here's my column in the Jamestown (NY) Gazette. It will probably be in a couple of other papers, too.
Turkey Season Wrap-Up: Why was this season such a challenge? That's the way I see the tough season this year. I was actually 100% on the birds I actually got to work. Of the 4 times I heard gobbling I could work only one. He signed off pretty quickly. I called in one other, as the article mentioned in the last line, but he didn't tell me he was coming.
Steve.
GREAT read, and I agree with you 100%. I managed a Longbeard AND a jake, May 3rd and May 5th. Longbeard came in silent while I was talking with another bird further off. If I hadn't seen him before he saw me, I would be telling a different story. The jake, 2 days later came in as 1 of 3. Came in silent. Both birds came in after making a couple sequences of yelps and clucks. I was hunting Oswego county, New York.
