I've been hunting my 81 acre farm in jo daviess county illinois since youth season now. When its time to pack up after the weekend, we drive our car to the blind. Will this hurt anything a week later? We were sitting in our blind on Saturday and we were calling and we had at Least 4 birds responding. After 20-30 ish minutes, we get out to call it quits when it was close to 1:00. I almost said, let's stay till 1:00 and we'll see what happens but I didn't. And so we got out and no more than 25 yards away was a tom ready to come in to our decoys in the brush. Obviously he saw us get out and ran to the next county. I've never bagged a gobbler in my life, and this time I was 30 seconds away from my first longbeard. Unfortunately, the rest of the weekend we didnt see anything....until, today when we packed up, I decided to move our blind. I went up the ridge where I've never been before, but we hear them gobbling up there about 300ish yards from our other blind all the time. First ever time Ive set foot on that ridge, See 7 turkey's and a deer including 2 gobblers and 5 hens. So naturally I set my blind up there. Will the car from this weekend mess anything up? Is it too late in the season? Im just really anxious to get one of these birds on the ground, and im worried its not going to happen AGAIN. I'm going back for 3rd and 4th season. Are they henned up yet? Any help or feedback is GREATLY appreciated.
I don't like hunting from a blind. Unless you are bowhunting and know where they like to go, I'd sit by a tree. It's incredible how often birds come in quietly. If I have birds responding to calls, and then they stop, I assume they are coming towards me. I never hunt a setup less than an hour. Those birds will come back to those spots. Good luck.
