Day 25 – 05/17
For the 1st time this season, I slept until the alarm went off. I’m usually up by 04:30 at the latest. Just 4 weeks ago, I was thinking: “AW MAN!!!! 3 DAYS & A WAKEUP!!!!” Today I’m thinking: “aw man….3 days before I get to sleep in….”
It was 55, with starry, clear skies, & calm at 05:28 this morning. I did a little calling at 07:00 since there had been no roost gobbles, & got no response. I called sparingly every 30 minutes or so all morning with nothing calling back.
At 09:30, I walked to the edge & spotted a bird about 200 yards from me hauling buttocks to the woods. I think it was a hen based on the way it ran, low to the ground & really pickin’ em up & puttin’ em down.
At 10:42, I spotted another coyote trotting along the edge heading west. It got to where I had set-up yesterday & stood this morning, made an abrupt u-turn & went back the way it had come. I believe it smelled my scent & decided it wanted nothing to do with me.
By 12:00, I was bored almost to tears & decided to head home. It’s 1 thing to sit with the possibility/anticipation of some action & a whole nuther when you don't expect anything to happen. I have sat until 05:00 P.M. before but that’s when I knew there were birds around. As the Irish side of my family would say: “O’well.”
The plan for tomorrow is to go to my 2ndry woods &, at some point, take down the blind as it will be the last sit at that spot. Then Sat. & Sun. sit in my primary spot & take down the blind sometime Sun. as it is the last day of the Ohio Season.
2018 Ohio Spring Turkey Season Day 25
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2018 Ohio Spring Turkey Season Day 25
George
YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR BODY STILL. YOUR HEART JUST HASN'T CAUGHT ON.
.17 = NITRO OF THE RIMFIRE WORLD USAF 1969-1973
YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR BODY STILL. YOUR HEART JUST HASN'T CAUGHT ON.
.17 = NITRO OF THE RIMFIRE WORLD USAF 1969-1973
Re: 2018 Ohio Spring Turkey Season Day 25
I’m petitioning Webster’s to have your picture placed next to the definition on the word Persistence
Hope springs eternal in the heart of a turkey hunter
Hope springs eternal in the heart of a turkey hunter
MAK
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Re: 2018 Ohio Spring Turkey Season Day 25
Well, I think that, if you weren't a masochist before you start hunting turkeys, you dang sure are after.
Then, if you introduce someone else into the "sport", you become a sadist!!
George
YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR BODY STILL. YOUR HEART JUST HASN'T CAUGHT ON.
.17 = NITRO OF THE RIMFIRE WORLD USAF 1969-1973
YOU KNOW YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR BODY STILL. YOUR HEART JUST HASN'T CAUGHT ON.
.17 = NITRO OF THE RIMFIRE WORLD USAF 1969-1973