Well, i'm back.......
And as bad as it went, I should have stayed gone........
I started out last sunday with high hopes and it all went down-hill from there.
I took my cousins grandson out on Monday morning to take one of the rogue jakes out of that big gang of birds. He shot one about 1/2 hour after daylight, we jumped up and ran to the downed bird and tried to scare the rest off, well we did alright, and I never heard another gobble off that property the rest of the week.
Another property that usually holds birds real good turned up nothing. I later found out that the neighboring property owner that won't let me hunt, let 3 guys come in the previous week and killed 3 toms off his 5 acres, which really meant they shot the birds off my property...............
I even broke down and went and hunted an old public land spot that always has birds and got shut out there too.
7 straight days of high winds and pounding rain/storms have totally got me down. Worst season i've had in 20 years.
4 or 5 straight years of bad hatches have finally caught up with us I fear. We have 2 weeks left, i'm down but not out.
