sterling forest turkey

[fadetoblack188]

anyone ever hunt turkey there?, im going to try my luck there this weekend near the powerlines i think.

[Two Track]

So far, I have only been hunting north of 17a in Sterling.

Only called in a hen last week

 

Got busted by a bird that flew over me on Saturday.

[fadetoblack188]

hmm, i forsee another weekend of seeing/hearing nothing

[Two Track]

Last spring, 1 bird was hanging out one of the parking areas for Wildcat Mountain - it just sat there behind my 4x4.  Couldn't call it into the woods where I could shoot it.

 

I am sure the coyotes in the area do not help much - saw one of them as I was heading back to the trail head.

 

I will either need to check out another area in Sterling, or go up to Stewart.  Problem with Stewart in the Spring is that you have to hike in from one of the parking areas.  The area I saw turkeys in during the fall is a couple miles up one of the interior roads and then head in on a trail.  Fall season would only need to hike in 1/4 mile from the interior parking spot.

 

Watch for turkey hunters in deer stands - came across a stand on Sunday when surveying an area that had lots of deer tracks during the winter.  Found acorns and some hemlocks for cover there.  When I looked around and up, there was the stand overlooking exactly where I was standing.  The stand is fairly new and was not there during last deer season - so it is either there for turkey or poaching.