My favorite spot for turkey hunting is a place I call The Honey Hole. If you dig through the weblog you'll find plenty of mentions. It was a big ol' dead tree in a fenceline. For over a decade, I sat with my back to it and had some stupendous luck. In 2016, the tree fell over in a storm and kind of half-wrecked the spot. For a few years, I moved to another tree 10 yards further down the fenceline. It worked, but it had problems.
There were a couple of logs that I'd been using over the years as alternate set-ups for when I was calling for somebody else. I tried those and they worked; I filled tags from them, but that site has warts as well. The main deficiency is that they have me sitting in a position where half the action is going on behind my back. The old site pointed roughly east. The log has me sitting facing either south or north. I've had a number of gobblers now come up on my back side. This past spring I had one sneak up behind me and try to make love to my umbrella mike while I was recording a podcast.
It got me thinking: there are two smaller live trees right next to the old stump. I could put something between the two trees and I'd have roughly the same outlook as I had before. I was in the process of taking a half-sheet of plywood and painting it with brown and gray paint when I got word that out-of-state hunters were not welcome due to COVID. I left the project unfinished. My goal is to get deployed in the first couple weeks of March and let it sit until the Opener in mid April.
So here is my question: Do you see any problems with the plan? Do you think the turkeys are going to see 4'X4' camo'd-up plywood as a strange foreign object or will they accept it?
Edit: I managed to find a picture of the Honey Hole taken after the tree fell over, and you can see the two trees next to it. Go here:
I Shot Pepe LePewThe top image is a scrollable panorama. Scroll all the way to the right. Above the watermark-- right above "Genesis" you'll see the two trees. I plan on taking out the farm fence and wiring the board between the trees.