South Carolina Turkey Hunting Season Stays Wet And Windy For The Lowcountry

We are now about half way through our South Carolina Spring turkey hunting season, and it has been marked by lots of rain and wind. As a matter of fact, this past Thursday the lowcountry received over 6 inches that completely flooded out all of the hardwood bottoms! However, while the bad weather has made the season more difficult, it surely hasn’t kept us from killing some great gobblers and hogs. And even when the hunters came away with a close call or missed opportunity, they were all still having a fantastic time, and that is always the most important thing when hunting.

As for our two Maryland turkey hunters, they struck out while visiting the lowcountry, however Lee had a good look at an old bird when he slipped in quietly to my calling and only 8 yards from his hiding spot. Unfortunately he was facing the wrong way for a shot since he was preparing for another bird that was gobbling and coming quick – but that is real turkey hunting, and sometimes your best hunt is the one where you don’t bag the bird. They also didn’t leave empty handed since Lee’s good friend Al hammered a nice hog during their stay.

Bubba then quickly got more turkey kills on the board when he first called in a nice longbeard for one of our longtime guest’s son, Jim from North Carolina, then put Bruce, down from Illinios, on two nice gobblers which he took with one shot. And talk about a great hunt, Bruce, who was down for his fifth trip to Cypress Creek Hunting Lodge, finished his visit by shooting a great hog.

However Henry and I didn’t want to be left out of all of the action so we got hard to work for two brothers, Brian and Mike, down from upstate NY to pursue the redheads here in South Carolina along with two of their good friends who have been hunting with Cypress Creek since it opened, Tom and Walt. Tom started the group’s successful trip off by killing a HUGE boar over at Sandy Run during their first afternoon, and then Henry called in a great bird with a broken fan right across from the lodge for

Brian on day two – and amazingly enough, Mike had almost killed that bird the day before. Mike and I finished their trip up by killing two birds during the storm of the century Thursday morning in which it rained so hard that you could hardly see out of the blinds and the turkeys had to turn in to it to keep it from getting under their feathers.

Now we have some hog hunters in camp as well as Ken from Florida who hunts with us several times a year. Ken is after a big gobbler this week, however he has already taken a great boar

over on Boggy Creek during his first afternoon hunt. And according to Danny when he called me tonight, two of the other hunters put down good pigs last night at Sandy Run. So I already have more great stories and harvest shots to share with you this week. Thanks for reading.

Jeff