Talk about a disappointing and very frustrating turkey opener. I took my son hunting this morning (Today is Kentucky's youth weekend.) and ran into a problem. The landowner told me the other day that some "hunter" had been parking on the adjacent property for over two weeks - virtually every morning, and CALLING toward our hunting lease. I'm talking repeated yelping with the shake of an occasional "gobbler call". The guy who owns the land where we hunt questioned the guy and was told "You have most of the birds on your land so I'm trying to get them to come over on my side!"
I have only been on the farm in the afternoons so hadn't witnessed this guy's calling frenzies until this morning. As soon as the birds pitched down about 200 yards on our side of the fence this A%* begins slamming away on a box call with and occasional shake of his "gobbler". Now, I move to where I can see this this guy and he is BY HIMSELF; he isn't calling for a younger hunter - get the picture? There we sat for the rest of our morning "hunt", my son and I in the Double Bull with his bow at the ready, listening to the breakfast show next door. ENOUGH, we folded the blind and headed back to the truck. On the way out I wrote down the guy's license number and looked over his rig pretty close. Here's the kicker; the truck had one of those special League of Kentucky Sportsman tags, a huge wild turkey hunting graphic that covered the entire rear window of truck, AND two white feed buckets, including one that still had shell corn in it. Gimmee a break! Apparently trying to call the birds over the property line wasn't sufficient.
I was forced to look at the my son's expression of disappointment all the way home. This kind of behavior is so contrary to everything that I've taught him. What really flips my switch is that this "adult" is actaully stealing from a kid. He's out there pulling these stunts before and during the youth weekend. The regular season is still two weeks away! Oh, did I mention his NWTF sticker on the bumper??
Time to call a CO.