Trips like that is why I never go on any guided trips the several fishing and hunting guided trips I've been on have all turned out similar to your story.

I'm not at all trying to defend these guys. I also agree that if I'm turkey hunting I do not want to sit on a feeder and wait for turkey's to come in. That's not turkey hunting.

I'm west of Abilene and this year the most turkeys I've seen in a single hunt was 4. 3 hens and 1 gobbler. In fact it was the ONLY hunt I saw turkeys.

Last year I would see on average 20-30 turkeys a day including 3-4 nice gobblers a day. The drout really hit us hard. I was told by a biologist our fawn survival rates last year was less than 7%. 4 of us have cameras out and 1 got a single picture of a fawn last year.

I'm feeding corn, milo, wheat, and soybeans at my feeder. I have two hens and a single gobbler that come in nearly everyday, that is it. I refuse to go sit at the feeder and wait for him to come in. I just decided I'm going to give them a pass this year and hope next year is better.

I understand that the drought and the early spring and turkey hunting in general is at best unpredictable. The issue I had with this hunt was the fact that we were told all the way up to the morning of the hunt that the birds were there and on fire. Then when we saw that wasn't the case and we wanted to hunt different than he wanted we were almost intentionally put in obvious bad spots. I had a 12 year old with me that would have been happy with any thing a hog,turkey, or coyote, all of which we were told we would have a chance at. If he would have been straight with us up front that the turkeys were not there or were very scattered and at least let us move 100yrds off his feeders I wouldn't have any problem. I mean nobody can predict 100% sucess like he advertised. We were in Albany Texas and I understand the drought was tough on everything, I wish he would have been upfront with us.