Tax season is over but so is turkey season here at 5/15. 4/29 was the last day of school for my kids. They go to private school and different schedule. I was so excited for Friday - get up at 3:30 and go to hunting property for turkeys, come home and watch BHoD and then take the bass boat fishing in the afternoon. Get to the top of my stand and it's pitch black and can't find my release. Backup release is at the office because I was fooling around with something. Hear the turkeys fly down and start gobbling on the neighboring property about 4-500 yds out where they roost. A little light peaks thru and I see my release on the ground. Climb down, get release unscathed and shortly afterwards the turkeys show up on our property and at about 125 yds out the bottom drops out and thunder & lightening and birds scatter. Get home, house to myself and see BHoD is in every two week mode. Waiting for my son to get home from school to go fishing. Dad can't go. Wife comes home without son and he's spent the night with a friend. Take the boat out by myself. From the low part of the boat where the steering wheel is I go to step up on front deck and fell. Nasty strawberry from bass boat carpet on the shin. Did not get one single nibble. Lesson learned - lower my expectations. LOL!
Hey guess that's why we call it fishing and hunting not catching and killing. A day getting skunked is still better than a day at work.
I agree with all the above, it beat sitting in the office and just coming off tax season that was all I did from mid Jan to about Apr 20. I always ground blind hunt turkeys, it was my first stand hunt for a turkey. The reason I did it was one day prior we set up ground blinds to sit from pre-dawn until about 10AM and watch the turkeys just congregate under a deer stand in the very corner of our property 214 yds away. Yeah I ranged them. LOL! We have a corner formed by an old fence row and what appears to be an old gate that no longer opens. These turkeys are roosting on the neighboring property and crossing in this little opening this little non functioning gate occupies and just sitting and grazing for a while. There's just no where to sit a blind within bow range. Thought I'd give it a try. On the other side of the gate on the other property, it looks like an old tractor path between the trees. I was able to watch them trot toward me to about 125 yds before the storm came, which was not in the forecast. If the property my buddy and I were able to procure wasn't so far away from home, I could maybe set something up and leave overnight. I don't feel comfortable leaving anything with a value of $10 or more overnight. Vandals have ruined cams, 4 feeders and even spray painted obscenities on the club house we built. We just discovered where they came together on Thurs and tried it on Friday and season is over in 12 days. This summer we'll probably try to set up something on the ground and hope the pattern holds for Fall and next Spring.
Sounds like an unfortunate day but still better than working. And Dustin owns a guide service. Getting skunked is a bad day at work when your livelihood depends on getting on animals.
Don't say that! I just put a new engine in my truck in Dec and fixed my wife's brakes Monday after a caliper seized!
