2010 Turkey Season

What an awesome start to the Wisconsin Turkey hunting season.

Day 1

Perfect weather. Started out cool and very light winds. The sounds of the woods was just awesome.

Only one hen was seen by myself and professional guide and caller TI. However, we saw a host of other animals in the wild of Northern Wisconsin. To name a few, we saw: Deer, Bear, Fox, Grouse, Ducks, Porcupines, Morning Doves and heard a whole lot more.

We didn't see or even hear a Tom the first morning. By noon, we headed back to town and headed to work. Tomorrow's another day.

Day 2

Another great day to be up at 4:30 am and heading to the woods, not caring about my scent. Just being able to jump into some camo and head to the woods was quite pleasing. We traveled around to some favorite sites, and previous soundings of gobblers.

Our first stop produced a gobble and we were off. We parked and walked a few hundred yards into the toms domain. We set-up and started calling. Soon we realized we had two different birds talking. They didn't get any closer, so we moved again. 3 times we moved in on the birds. Some sexy hen must have been leading them away from her competition.

We got to a clearing and couldn't risk chasing, so we began to call. The Toms were only 100 yards away, but we couldn't get them to materialize. They were content to talk to us for 2 hours that morning. But, they wouldn't come to our call.

Day 3

For a day that was supposed to be windy and rainy, it was warm and overcast. Not much wind either.

We went back to get after the same toms again. This time we circled and cut them off, if they were going to do the same as yesterday. We made one small mistake, we assumed we had to get close right away. We jumped off the roadway and traveled through the woods after getting close. However, the birds were on the move very fast, right to us. So, fast a hen busted us as we set up.

We were able to call and get the gobbler settled down, but he wasn't coming after the danger yelps.

Well, ever day has gotten better. If I can muster another early morning, we'll try again tomorrow.

Safe hunting!