It is so cold here in Northern Illinois. Here is the scenario. The local flock I am on has mature birds, and I see an average of 16. There are four jakes, three mature birds, one really mature dominant bird, hens and jennies. Early today they did venture into bean field, walked the edge of woods as of course, snow and wind. I had two jake decoys, two hen decoys, spread out heading toward the farm road which is this flocks normal travel. They went back into the woods, I called minimal, I think the weather and wind effected them today. Late morning, old strutter following two hens around in full strut......open field, he was focused on strutting, and following.....saw no more flock, they stayed on the edges 400 yards away fighting the snow. I have four days left to hunt. SNow showers Wednesday and Thursday. DO I bring the strutter, and only one hen to set him off?? Its hard hunting these birds when its too cold for hens to lay eggs. I am on far end of the field, blind brushed in, they are moving left to right. I always put decoys to my far right so they pass in front of blind. AL
