I thing you've got a solid plan going forward. Last piece of advice I can give is less is more. Calling, decoys, blinds, everything. And be patient turkeys are creatures of habit, but they have a habit of being weird, so they may come to a cow feed station the same time every day but they may...
If you gave me one breast to cook for the rest of my life, it's going in the pickle juice over night, then eggs, the. Heavily Cajun seasoned flour, then I'm going to fry it the way God intended
Honestly with 5 decoys, especially with a strutter you won't have to do much but sit still and wait for one to see you. I agree with gellar, but I'd be even more extreme and wait til they flew down, sneak close and then call to them.
Edit: If you snuck in with red lights, you didn't sneak in.
Opened up with a bang. Today was the first day I've turkey hunted with my dad since I was fifteen years old. I called one in for him early and got him on the ground, then moved a few miles and called up my favorite kind of bird. (The neighbors birds) But one of the neater parts of the day was a...
I went out to shoot some hogs on a place we're growing peanuts this year. I wore my new vest because it's new and I can't help myself, right at dark I thought 'why not see if one answers?' so I picked up my mega loud glass call and hit it twice about thirty seconds apart.
No answer.
I scanned...
Tines down buried under straw and leaves, a neighbors fire got out and burned the woods up on a place we farm. i found the other side out in the open last year.
Made the hop down to some public in Florida this morning, I only heard one bird at daylight but I was able to cut his track in a sand road and made a pretty good setup. All I managed was to call a few hens up.
45° and not a cloud in the sky
I never thought about capping rangefinder strength but I like that idea A LOT.
Some states here in the south are changing laws around turkey decoys from no fanning on public land to as strong as no decoys at all. I personally am all for making it more difficult.
Less is more. Decoys, blinds, calls, all of it. Less is more. Whenever you plan on doing something wait ten minutes, when you're done waiting, do it again.