Man o Man, the month is slipping past quickly, it’s already May 11…..Today is Saturday and the Weasel, Conner and I are heading for the hills to do a little turkey hunting.

We have our plan and hope it pays off.  One of these days it will, perhaps today.

The game plan is to put Weasel and Conner on the top of the hill overlooking “busted” meadow, while I will occupy the low spot near Dry Dog Rise.  The birds should hit one or the other this morning.

We expect company in the area since it is a Saturday and most folks will be off work and out, but our key is the early start.  It’s 3:31 a.m. right now and I’m to pick them two up in 16 minutes…I hope they are up and ready.  The truck is packed, the weather is going to be quite warm and I’m pumped for a good day!

I’ll have my binocs today, unlike the other day.  It’s surprising just what little things one misses when out and about…you can see it, but just can’t quite figure out what it is without the close up look.  We would not have seen the gobbler last time we went out without the binocs.  What used to be short new growth from the Spring has now become tall green grass and even though the birds are tall, the grass hides them pretty good now.

Here we go!  More to come!

Bears Butt

May 11, 2013

P.M. Report:

Those miserable turkeys!  They were roosting South of us today!  They are NEVER over there!  OOOOOOO!

Our plan worked out perfectly.  We were in position before it was even light enough to see your shoes.  The birds woke up slowly and it was just a beautiful morning!  At one point I thought I had a hen turkey working into my one decoy setup, but later on after seeing there had been 6 other people sign in to the walk in access area after we had signed in, I figure it must have been one of them.  It did get my heart beating really good though.

Hunting on the weekend isn’t my bag, but with it being the only days Conner can hunt, we just have to sacrifice and try and figure out where the others aren’t willing to go and then go there.

Still a fun day and it’s always better to be out in the woods than sleeping or pulling weeds…I still have weeds!

Bears Butt

Afternoon of May 11!