Still gobbling

[Old Buck]

I was down at the farm putting in food plots and doing tsi (timber stand improvement) the last couple days. While eating a quick bowl of cereal at dawn on the deck I hear a couple gobbles. I couldn't resist so headed into the woods with a box call and binoculars. Once I answered he thought he'd finally gotten lucky again and started gobbling every 15-30 seconds.

 

[Limb Chicken]

I know what you mean. I keep seeing one poor boy stutting every morning in the same place. I am wondering when he is going to finally hang it up? Ya got to like the determination though.

 

[Pupster]

Sometimes I wish there was a 5th and 6th season. Ha!

 

[muddy]

The water sampling runs have yielded many sights of gobblers still strutting. Yesterday after the torrential down pour I saw 3 toms strutting for 4 hens out in a field on HWY 13 just south of Marion. I have to wonder if the nests got flooded out since I didn't see any little ones and the stream in that area was about 15 foot out of it's banks. I havn't seen water like I did yesterday in my entire life, Manchester and Monticello got nailed...bad.