I am just going to take a minute and circle back on a
successful Spring Turkey season; yes, I am aware it is late June, haha!
Over a long weekend Ryan and I were able to fill our spring
tags in back-to-back days. The turkey numbers were way up in the river bottoms.
It may have been a by-product of a spring snow storm that pushed the birds down
from the hills. Trudging through waist deep snow for a turkey season was a rare
occasion for me, but it beat picking off wood ticks afterwards. Either way, we
were crawling in birds. In fact the morning I shot my bird we counted over 40
Turkeys, and 30 of them were Jakes or Toms!
It was one of those odd situations though, there were
actually too many birds. Although it is a good problem to have, getting responses
to calls or setting up near roosting areas was next to impossible. But, we adapted
our strategy and it paid off in spades.
We located a couple pinch points that the flocks had clearly
been using and set up shop. We hunted the birds like they were deer and waited
for their daily routines to put them into our shotgun range. Although the birds
we tagged were not 20 pound swingers, it doesn’t tarnish the hunt or memories
one bit. It was a fantastic hunt with a satisfying outcome.
