WILD TURKEY BOWHUNT IN TENNESSEE
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May 3 - Day 1 - Morning

Finding A Strut Zone

MORNING: May 3 - Fred parked his truck and walked through a big field in the dark, looking for somewhere that would have a good view of the area. He picked a high spot in the middle of the field so he would be able to watch the entire field and  some of the surrounding woods. The eastern horizon had a faint glow at 5:00 and the first gobble sounded, it was a long ways off. Minutes later a closer gobble sounded in the woods to the North. Five minutes later a loud gobble came from a ridge above the field.

Fred thought the gobbler near the field might pitch down into the field when he saw the 3 hen decoys Fred had out. Instead the gobbler stayed on top of the ridge and gobbled for two hours. At one point the gobbles moved further away and Fred called at him with the both the Woodhaven aluminum slate and the Doug Crabtree mouth call. The gobbler responded but wouldn't come down to the field. 

At 8:30 the bird was still gobbling and a hen crossed the field walking in the direction of the gobbler. Shortly after things quieted down and at 9:30 Fred walked to the ridge to check out the area where the gobbler had been. He found a logging road through the woods on the very top part of the ridge. There were fresh gobbler droppings in the road. All indications are that this is one of the gobbler's strut zones.

Then Fred walked back to camp.

Last night I worked on the web site until 1:00am. When 4:00 came Fred was ready to go turkey hunting. But I slept in. TO THE AFTERNOON HUNT...
 
 

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