What, besides, the number of birds you killed, made it good? or should I say made it possible to kill the birds you did? Was is that numbers and gobbling were normal? That the turkeys acted normal, as in would gobble on the ground, or gobbled up in the day, and would respond to a call? Were you able to kill birds in the morning, or later in the day? That is, were most of your birds killed early or later? Were they killed in patches, or killed coming in and gobbling?
As you might guess from the topic, my year was terrible. It was mainly marked by little gobbling activity. What birds you did hear might gobble once or twice and that was it. Only one or two turkeys responded to a call the whole season. One thing I noticed a bunch of this year was hens - tons of hens.
I don't proclaim to be the best caller or turkey hunter, but I average around 3 turkeys a year for last 4-5 years after my first two years of starting to hunt, during which I only killed one. i've tried switching calls, not using locator calls, slipping in way before daylight, etc. It could be my calling, but seems unlikely, especially given that i've hunted with some other way better hunters than I am this year with the same experiences.
Thanks.
