Well I have left the site for almost a month to go back to PA and visit my family and do some turkey hunting . This may have been the turn around of my decision to vacate Washington ! haha ... After being home and noticing nothing has change but actually has gotten better for PA sportsmen . There is now billions of public state game lands which is all accessible for residents and non-residents alike . It was such a stressful and meaningful place for me to be . I was into birds everyday I hunted but things never seemed to go my way . My biggest down fall was patience and my hearing .. my hearing is so bad I could only hear these birds answering when they were on top of me and a couple times I decided to get closer when I could not hear them and in the process of moving they busted me ..These PA birds on public land are the toughest of birds to kill .
It can be done but you best be prepared to sit for hours and do not even blink your eyes .My brother and I hunted together everyday and the only one day we decided to split up because the birds were moving around so much on us at different times that we decided we best do what we can to get a tag filled ! So this story goes like this .....
My wife and I were sitting in the jeep parked above the river ..As we sat there she says to me ...DID YOU HEAR THAT
I said hear what !!! lmao ...she said a turkey gobbled !! I said Ya right ... I step out of the jeep and yes he was gobbling ..Only problem he was across the river and I knew this would be hard to bring him across but I had to try ... We set up on him for about 2.5 hours and he gobbled his head off but would not come across the river .. Now here is a lesson if you want to understand a few things about turkey hunting ..Never ever give up on an area you know there are turkeys ..if he gobbles and doesn't come in , you best return later because he may have moved while you left and may be where you were previously that day !!!!
So after a few hours of listening to him irritate me with his gobbling I decided to leave .. the next morning my brother and I returned to the same area and decide we best split up .. I head back down to the river bottom and he decides to stay up high on the ridge above the river ..we all know its easier to call birds up hill ...hahahaha About 8:00am I hear a fant gobble above me ..Still not sure if it was a gobble but then all hell broke loose ... Gobble Gobble ...double gobble ...pooooooow !!! I get a text ...BIRD DOWN ... I shook my head and heaed up hill to find him standing there with a limb hanger ...It was a nice bird ! We celebrated and took some photos and headed out to the truck ...