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bamaranger · April 6, 2025, 12:37 AM

-Hunt #4, 4April
Family obligations negate an early start, and I pickup bama granddaughter and return home in the AM for a real breakfast and a nap before leaving home about 10:30 AM for a midday hunt. I enter Irish Hollow from the opposite side of the other day on an old trail I have not been down in several years. I put in some reflective markers for a predawn entry and finally settle at the same tree from which I heard the gobbler fight. Wind is still up, but down low here not so bad. I call sparingly over the course of 3 hours on an old Lynch box picked a couple of years ago in an antique bazaar. Nothing answers and I climb out at 4:00 PM to arrive back home at a decent hour. Bunch of big buck rubs here, I picked a a few deer trees when I was hunting this a few years ago, but never came back to deer hunt, but......I really need to deer hunt this in the fall.

-Hunt#5, 5April
Bamaboy calls, he's seen two gobblers strutting on his property in the next county N. I call that same evening, he says have at it. I meet him in his drive as he arrives from working night shift. He wishes me luck and heads in the house to sack out.....guy looks beat....we'll meet for lunch. I hump out across his back 20 acre field and pop a blind up out of sight of the house and Co. road. As day builds, I hear no gobbles, but again, the wind is romping. I've chosen this corner as its out of sight, and its as out of the wind as can be given the circumstances. I run the old Lynch box again, couple of times an hour. At 9:30 I see a lone hen across the property line in an adjacent pasture 200 yds away. She glares my direction when I run some yelps from the Lynch at her, but resumes feeding and eventually drifts out of sight. I stay in place 'till 11:45, leave the blind in place and go up to the house and wake the boy, we go to lunch, just us two, first time in a long time and It's great.
Back from lunch about 2:00PM, 'boy goes back in the house for more sleep, I gear back up and start across the field. I don't go 50 yds and from out of a slight in a fold in the field a hen and huge gobbler pop up, 100 yds away. The hen bolts back into cover, but the gobbler runs the length of the field, some 300 yds, and flushes onto the neighboring properety....jeez, gimmie a break! Well......nuts again. I still have hope. 'Boy said there were two gobblers here, and just maybe, by dusk, the spooked gobbler may slip back in the area, looking for his date. I've killed a couple that way after bumping them, though perhaps not so dramatically. I do nothing but sit in the blind and watch for 2-1/2 hours, and begin some light calling at 4:00PM. I use the slate, the wind has ebbed some and don't need the volume, and it's a different call from what I was running this AM, just in case the spooked gobbler had heard the box before. All that strategy for nothing, as no turkey
answers or appears. Ah well.

April 6, 2025, 12:37 AM	#3
bamaranger Senior Member Join Date: October 9, 2009 Location: North Alabama Posts: 8,788	hunts #4 & #5 -Hunt #4, 4April Family obligations negate an early start, and I pickup bama granddaughter and return home in the AM for a real breakfast and a nap before leaving home about 10:30 AM for a midday hunt. I enter Irish Hollow from the opposite side of the other day on an old trail I have not been down in several years. I put in some reflective markers for a predawn entry and finally settle at the same tree from which I heard the gobbler fight. Wind is still up, but down low here not so bad. I call sparingly over the course of 3 hours on an old Lynch box picked a couple of years ago in an antique bazaar. Nothing answers and I climb out at 4:00 PM to arrive back home at a decent hour. Bunch of big buck rubs here, I picked a a few deer trees when I was hunting this a few years ago, but never came back to deer hunt, but......I really need to deer hunt this in the fall. -Hunt#5, 5April Bamaboy calls, he's seen two gobblers strutting on his property in the next county N. I call that same evening, he says have at it. I meet him in his drive as he arrives from working night shift. He wishes me luck and heads in the house to sack out.....guy looks beat....we'll meet for lunch. I hump out across his back 20 acre field and pop a blind up out of sight of the house and Co. road. As day builds, I hear no gobbles, but again, the wind is romping. I've chosen this corner as its out of sight, and its as out of the wind as can be given the circumstances. I run the old Lynch box again, couple of times an hour. At 9:30 I see a lone hen across the property line in an adjacent pasture 200 yds away. She glares my direction when I run some yelps from the Lynch at her, but resumes feeding and eventually drifts out of sight. I stay in place 'till 11:45, leave the blind in place and go up to the house and wake the boy, we go to lunch, just us two, first time in a long time and It's great. Back from lunch about 2:00PM, 'boy goes back in the house for more sleep, I gear back up and start across the field. I don't go 50 yds and from out of a slight in a fold in the field a hen and huge gobbler pop up, 100 yds away. The hen bolts back into cover, but the gobbler runs the length of the field, some 300 yds, and flushes onto the neighboring properety....jeez, gimmie a break! Well......nuts again. I still have hope. 'Boy said there were two gobblers here, and just maybe, by dusk, the spooked gobbler may slip back in the area, looking for his date. I've killed a couple that way after bumping them, though perhaps not so dramatically. I do nothing but sit in the blind and watch for 2-1/2 hours, and begin some light calling at 4:00PM. I use the slate, the wind has ebbed some and don't need the volume, and it's a different call from what I was running this AM, just in case the spooked gobbler had heard the box before. All that strategy for nothing, as no turkey answers or appears. Ah well.