Week 3 Day 3

Today, Grant and I went back to the public hunting grounds in Chardon. We got lots of great video which you will be able to see in our short film that we are making next week. I filmed part of the drive there and Grant filmed me getting dressed into my camouflaged attire. Then, we filmed our walk through the woods to find a feasible location where we could set up. We finished with a video of how to set up the blind and then got down to business. Like usual, we waited in the blind, attempting to call in a Tom. This time, we altered how we used the call boxes. Grant had talked to his uncle, who had said that instead of trying to make the calls loud as to reach Toms in a large radius, we should try to make the calls softer and rustle our feet in the leaves when we call. We tried this and our calls did start to sound better. We didn't see any turkeys today, but I will be optimistic and say it wasn't our fault. There were a lot of noises that sounded like chainsaws and other machines. Also, with all the rain, the trees were wet and many large branches fell, creating loud "booms." The turkeys were probably scared away by all the noise and commotion.