Really strange season in South Carolina. In the beginning of the season, birds would gobble on the limb, fly down and shut up. This continued for several weeks and I got lucky on 4/5 and was in the right place at the right time to call a longbeard up the ridge from a creek bottom at 2:20pm. He actually answered my call and came in on a string looking for me. After one tag filled. I hunted almost every day and would occasionally hear a gobble on the roost but most days I heard nothing. I saw hens on several occasions, up in the day out feeding but that's it. The last week of the season I heard a total of three birds gobble on the limb and that was all. I also could not find tracks or other signs of birds on roads or in the creek bottoms and ridge tops where I've seen them in past years. I am hunting private land. several different tracks which I've hunted for nearly 15 years. it's like the birds are not there but history and trail cameras tell me they are or at least were there prior to the season beginning. Like I said, strange season in South Carolina.
