May 27th, Day 24

Man this season just keeps getting tougher and tougher for me. Here is the post hunt interview I took.

https://youtu.be/MCCi5yo9Xbc



If you cant watch it. I set up on the bird I was on yesterday hoping he would do the same thing. He was roosted off the the side of the ridge and not on the logging road. I had a guy come walking down the logging road. I was set up about 2' off the road in some bushes and stopped him.

"Hey bud they are roosted right there"

"I know where they are roosted," he snidly remarks and continues to walk towards the birds.

"Really man??" I ask.

He says a few choice words and turns around.

He gobbled a few times so I did a couple tree yelps. He responded so I just shut up totally. It sounded like he flew down and was working away from me. After yesterdays hunt I knew I needed a game plan.

I moved over to the ridge and sat down at the base of a tree an listened. After 2 minutes I wanted to keep tabs on him so I tree yelped to see if I could get a response.

I did....30-40 yards away on the limb still

CRAP, I knew that he was going to sit on that limb until he say the hen he just heard. I waited, and waited, and waited. Pulled out the phone and it was 6:30. 10 minutes before I have to leave to make it to work on time.

I tried to fire him up with some excited yelping and cutting. He gobbled but would not fly down. At 6:37 I decided to gobble on my mouth call. I had my gun in that direction and not 30 seconds he flew down. I had him in the scope mid air but Im not that hard up to shoot one like that. He hit the ground and I had his head in the scope for a few seconds but couldn't ID a beard and such. When his feet touched the ground a hen started calling and took him right away.

AND THE BEAT GOS ON.....