hawglips
Old Mossy Horns
Hunted 3 days in GA - and looks like I'm done.
1st day, heard nary a gobble but played around with a hen for a while. My daughter wanted to see one come in, and that's the best I could do. We hunted all day and that's all the action we got.
2nd day, heard my first gobble of the year. He gobbled 4 times on the roost, but was way off the property where I couldn't go. Hunted till mid afternoon when I was able to jerk a shock gobble out of one - off the property where I couldn't go. He never gobbled again, and try as I might, though his hen came across the creek to me, he wouldn't come.
3rd day, I got on one gobbing on the roost - where I could hunt! I got set up good on him in a wide open bottom, and ended up playing with him for two hours trying to keep him from walking away. The closest I got to him was about 60 - 70 yds just over the ridge (he kept it between us at all times), and even had him gobble at my scratching. But he just wasn't going to come to me, and he ended up gobbling at me the last time about 250 yds away. While I was working him, I called in 3 different hens from 3 different directions, but no gobblers in tow. In the meantime, I got another long distant gobble from a second bird. And when I closed the distance to get within bonafide working range, some other hunter had slid in between us and shot him about 100 yds from me....
And that ended my GA hunt for 2014. And this is the first year in several that I came up empty in the Peach State.
1st day, heard nary a gobble but played around with a hen for a while. My daughter wanted to see one come in, and that's the best I could do. We hunted all day and that's all the action we got.
2nd day, heard my first gobble of the year. He gobbled 4 times on the roost, but was way off the property where I couldn't go. Hunted till mid afternoon when I was able to jerk a shock gobble out of one - off the property where I couldn't go. He never gobbled again, and try as I might, though his hen came across the creek to me, he wouldn't come.
3rd day, I got on one gobbing on the roost - where I could hunt! I got set up good on him in a wide open bottom, and ended up playing with him for two hours trying to keep him from walking away. The closest I got to him was about 60 - 70 yds just over the ridge (he kept it between us at all times), and even had him gobble at my scratching. But he just wasn't going to come to me, and he ended up gobbling at me the last time about 250 yds away. While I was working him, I called in 3 different hens from 3 different directions, but no gobblers in tow. In the meantime, I got another long distant gobble from a second bird. And when I closed the distance to get within bonafide working range, some other hunter had slid in between us and shot him about 100 yds from me....
And that ended my GA hunt for 2014. And this is the first year in several that I came up empty in the Peach State.
