Can't figure this out?

[Cutt]

Our home State of PA started this Saturday, but Ohio came in a week before our opener. So I started off in Ohio and hunted 4 times, could never get a bird to work there other than a jake I passed on.

Fast forward to PA which started 1 week later than Ohio. I hunted a total of 4 days, which I worked birds each hunt, 2 hunts screwed up by hunters and I tagged two nice Toms here.

So today I go back to the spot in Ohio were I had no luck other than a jake, and now not a peep. So I leave there at 11:00 and get in the woods in another Public piece in Ohio around 12:00. Within 20 mins I have a bird working, just never got a shot as he stayed below the knoll only showing the top of his head.

But to my question, the one spot in Ohio, I can not get a bird to answer for nothing, but go to PA and another spot in Ohio, and I have no problem? I just don't understand why, as I know there are some birds there. All three of these areas are within a 20 min. drive of one another and all public on the PA-Ohio line. But the area I have no luck in is probably the least pressured of the 3 areas. Just can't figure it out, unless the neighboring houses have been messing with these birds well before the Season? I know birds can vary area to area, but just don't understand that I can get them to answer and work elsewhere except the one area, and I have normally done well there the first few days in past years? I have no idea what's going on there, very strange as compared to other areas nearby, and as I said the least hunter pressure of the 3 areas too?

[appalachianassassin]

that's why its good to have two or three spots you can hit. you might go tomorrow to the spot in question and the ridges could be thundering with gobbles. just turkeys being turkeys.

[Cutt]

that's why its good to have two or three spots you can hit. you might go tomorrow to the spot in question and the ridges could be thundering with gobbles. just turkeys being turkeys.

I know what you are saying, but in the past +10 years I've hunted this area, I've never seen birds so unresponsive as they have been there going on 2 weeks. Now if I experienced the same in the other nearby areas, I would say the same. They just seem very different here for some reason?

[Farmboy27]

I've seen it way too many times to count. And we're talking 2 or 3 miles apart. Some times it's because the birds moved. Sometimes it's hunting pressure. And sometimes it's just turkeys being turkeys. It can drive ya nuts!  Lol.

[fallhnt]

^^^this

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[Ozarks Hillbilly]

Like Farmboy said just turkey's being turkey's I never have figured out what makes them gobble from one day to the next. You know they are there one morning they gobbling their heads off the next not a peep. If anyone has the answer to this great mistery they may want to keep it to themselves.

[dublelung]

That's the good and bad thing about turkey hunting, you never know when they'll be on fire or when they're going to clam up. One thing is for sure, must be present to win!

[perrytrails]

I'm in se Ohio and experience the same thing your talking about.

It's hard to say, one day to the next it's 100% different.

Folks that's what I've come to except as turkey hunting, for me anyway.

One day it's on fire awesome hunting,
The next...silence