This little Gobbler is the one we want!  Today is our 5th day trying to find one like this little guy and will we do it today?  Only time will tell.

It’s 3 a.m. and I pick up Weasel in an hour for our trip to the usual morning haunt.  Not once have the birds done what they have done for the past four years, will they do it today?  I’m telling you, turkey hunting is not easy.  The first time I went turkey hunting was in Missouri with my friend Bo, and he had one come in “on a string” (that’s what they call it when one comes running in straight at you).  The season started at 7:05 and by 7:30 we were taking pictures of me with my 26 pound bird.  Have I found that to be the case here in Utah……?…….Not yet.

Well, maybe today.  They say that you have to have faith in where you are hunting and the method you are using to hunt them.  I have faith in both of those things.  Yesterday it rained like the dickens and I highly doubt any hunters ventured out, so the birds got a break from the hunting pressure.  Maybe it was just enough to relax them a bit for todays hunt.

I talked with a lady the other day at the store who owns a mountain cabin near where we have been hunting and she said the turkeys are such a nuisance, she has had as many as 50 birds roost in the overhead of her patio awning and poop all over her furniture and she wishes they would all get killed.  I laughed.  She went on to say that when they first bought the cabin it was such a treat to see the turkeys come into their yard and strut around and how they fed them to make sure they came back.  Now with 50 or more birds coming around she wishes they hadn’t even seen the first one.  I laughed again.  Isn’t mother nature a funny one?  Maybe Weasel and I should go set up on her back lawn…..Coffee, Donuts and a big old yard bird!

There is a fish they call the “fish of a thousand casts”, I’m thinking turkeys are just like that…”The bird of a thousand trips”…..

It’s pretty funny when you think of it, here we are stomping over an area 10 miles, trip after trip and people are complaining about them in their back yards…something doesn’t seem right here.

More to come later, but for now I have to get ready for todays hunt!

Bears Butt

May 8, 2014