10 point
03-31-2003, 05:04 PM
After deciding not getting up at 3am to scout, I woke up around 8am and found myself not having to do nothing today besides buy my books for this quarter. After I bought my books I decided to head down for a little scouting trip for a couple of hours. The first spot I went to was my father's farm. I know the farm well, but still like to find where they are using at. So I walked over the one end of the property and found some pretty good scratchings where they have always used. Then I went to the upper part of the place by the pines. They are using this big time right now. I couldn't walk through the pines without stepping on droppings. I mean it was everywhere. I had my crow call with me and I let out a few yells on that while there, but nothing gobbled. After that I packed it up and headed up the road about 2 miles to another farm we hunt on. The lady's husband just died, so I bought her a fruit basket with a card and wrote in it how sorry I was to hear about her husband and thanks for letting us hunt. I dropped that off to her and went around the other end of the place where there is a gasline that runs on the edge of her property. I pulled up and looked and there was 6 mature gobblers with probably 4-5 hens. I mean these gobblers were huge with very long beards. After watching them for a few minutes I went up the road to another farm we hunt on that same road. This farm is a cow field that the turks use often. I can see the field from the road so I stopped and glassed it and I saw something in the corner of the field. I looked closer and there was one gobbler out there picking in the field. He was a nice bird as well. I stayed and watched where he exited the field by the hay bales. After that, I drove back by two other fields we can hunt that USUALLY holds birds, but I didn't see nothing out in them. So the birds and sign I saw made up for the bad weather. On the way down it was pouring down the snow!! I'm getting back out later this week.