First Turkey hunt today! I can finally get out of the newb den.
Arrived at Spenceville around 7am this morning, about 600 miles from the OC, but made for an awesome first hunt. Got to the check station and got all the paperwork and permits done and they opened the road for me. Parked and got out to gobbles everywhere in the trees. I started hiking up to a point where gobbles were coming from and by the time I got up there all signs of them totally disappeared. I set up a blind and put out my decoys and went for walk around the hill my blind was set up on following a creek to a pond. Glassed the area stopping every so often and looking around for nada. After a few hours made my way back to my blind and started calling. Its seems the calls only attracted other hunters, I didnt see anyone when I was out walking around and now I can see three hunters in different directions from my blind. Once they realized it was me calling they slowly dspersed. With no gobbles and my spot busted wide open I hiked to another spot and set up decoys. This time I was trying in a little wetland area next to a creek and a pond. Found a good spot to set up with the same results. With no response I was moving and only saw hunters making their way that direction chasing my calls again. Set up in another two spots a few miles away and had to take the skunk for the day. Was good to get out there though and give it a shot. Learned alot and need to make some tweaks to my gear like leave some at home and replace with other. Tracked it on OnX and 7 miles of hiking. The app worked good tracking me even when the cell service dropped, it just drains battery like crazy. Since Its not the home field I dont mind sharing my tracks. See if you can find the turkey there.
Next up Howard Slough in May, i think I need to head to San Diego In between to practice.
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