Good time no turkey... Well the morning to the 20th load up and headed out about 1PM. reached the happy hunting ground ( Bow area only) about 3PM. Everyone and their brothers sons were running around there. I figured that is ok , they will be gone soon. Set on camp and srtuck out to where I was to set up my blind and decoys. Tracks from people are all over the place. I'm thinking maybe ther ran the birds out but I'll give the place a try anyway. Was back in camp about 5:30 PM. not a soul to be found. Had the place all to my self. I'm felling good. Built me a nice little fire popped open a beer and start to cooking. I kicked it at the fire until about 8:30 then hit the sack.

5AM I'm setting out the decoys and in the blind. I shock gobble nothing.  Hmm not good maybe they did move out, but then last time I was here the were not in here until about 10AM. I'll wait. About every 30 to 45 minutes I hit the box or slate nothing. Time moves on. 11AM rolls around and nothing not a sound or turkey sighted. Ok time to find them . Off I go. I decide to make a loop around the area of about 6 miles. As I hunt I hit the crow, box or slate call about every 15 to 20 minutes after hiking for about 45 minutes I locate a hen in an area I have never been in before. I'm getting excited a turkey if she is here a tom maybe around. I search the whole area she is the only bird around not surprized as she was nesting already. I move on.. following the same routine hitting one of my calls every 15 to 20 minutes. After hiking around for I find a stream I didn't know about. In an area that burned last year. I thinking this should be a good place to both turkey hunt and deer hunt when that season comes in. I commance to check the stream out. It was not a running stream but it had a pool here and a pool there all were good size and about 2-3ft deep. About 5 seperate pools of water. As I come to the best looking one low and behold what do I see !!!  A blind with some turkey decoys about 40 yards from the water.  so as not to bust his set up I keep on moving with out stopping near that blind. As I was going to try sitting and calling there. About a mile later I'm on the road. Since it is burned acrossed the road I decide to walk the road back tours camp. About a 1/4 mile down the road their is a truck with turkey tracks near it on the road. I'm thinking there he sits in his blind and all he had to do was stay near his truck to arrow a turkey. About 1/2 miles down I head up over the hill by way of a side road  and find another truck parked above where I have my blind  is set up. I go down into my blind after 4 hours of searching for them birds.  Back at camp around 6PM replay of the night before.

Set my alarm for 4AM. but forgot to pull out the ringer. I wake at 5AM on the button. Jump up and head out as quickly as I can headed for my blind. I get about half way there when I hear gobble gobble.. I hit the slate and fire back he replies. I reply, he replies. I wait Hoping he will come in. I hear him gobble again in a few minutes he is moving away. I hit the slate a couple of times hoping to bring him back no luck he keeps heading away. I try to follow them but they are getting ferther away. I note the direction they are going. Then I know I must make a deccision. Do I pursue them or let them go. I elect to let them go. They were headed to the area I found the water. Since I had no way of knowing if that other hunter was over there I figured I shouldn't take the chance of spooking the birds from him just in case he was in there. I headed back it my blind. Hunted until noon then broke down my set up and headed back to break camp. That's my story and I'm sticking to it...