SGADawg
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Went by myself this morning to my farm where I have never heard a gobble but have seen a gobbler early in the season (I wasn't hunting). Had a hen fly off the roost about 50 yards behind me at about 7 am and go the other way.
At 7:40 a gobbler sounded off about 75 yards away on a woods road just across the property line. I gave a couple of soft clucks and he came right back with another gobble. I clucked and purred a few times so he could pinpoint me. From then until 9 am he strutted in the road back and forth forth gobbling 2 to 5 times a minute. I would purr or yelp about once every 15 minutes. He gobbled at least 200 times in an hour and a half!! He began to taper off after that. At 9:15 he hushed. I thought "he's either coming in or leaving". 5 minutes later he had gone the long way around a small flat pond and came in on my right. Of course I was out of position
. When he saw the hen decoy, he started to go into a strut but then flattened back out. No doubt he smelled a rat. He trotted by the decoy out in front of me and then stopped about 25 yards out. A load of #5's ended the story. 11 1/2" beard that looked thick as a paint brush, 1" spurs and 20 lbs.
My biggest bird of 4 I have killed since I started turkey hunting 3 years ago (my second this year, the other was my biggest), killed on my own place, and at least twice as many gobbles this morning as I had heard before altogether in 3 years.
Pictures to come later, got company now.
I now have 2 in one year for the first time and will be bowhunting for the next couple of weeks. If I have no luck, I may pull the shotgun back out for the last week.
Man, I am pumped. Sorry for the long post but I had to tell somebody the story or bust. The wife is tired of hearing it.
At 7:40 a gobbler sounded off about 75 yards away on a woods road just across the property line. I gave a couple of soft clucks and he came right back with another gobble. I clucked and purred a few times so he could pinpoint me. From then until 9 am he strutted in the road back and forth forth gobbling 2 to 5 times a minute. I would purr or yelp about once every 15 minutes. He gobbled at least 200 times in an hour and a half!! He began to taper off after that. At 9:15 he hushed. I thought "he's either coming in or leaving". 5 minutes later he had gone the long way around a small flat pond and came in on my right. Of course I was out of position
. When he saw the hen decoy, he started to go into a strut but then flattened back out. No doubt he smelled a rat. He trotted by the decoy out in front of me and then stopped about 25 yards out. A load of #5's ended the story. 11 1/2" beard that looked thick as a paint brush, 1" spurs and 20 lbs.My biggest bird of 4 I have killed since I started turkey hunting 3 years ago (my second this year, the other was my biggest), killed on my own place, and at least twice as many gobbles this morning as I had heard before altogether in 3 years.
Pictures to come later, got company now.
I now have 2 in one year for the first time and will be bowhunting for the next couple of weeks. If I have no luck, I may pull the shotgun back out for the last week.
Man, I am pumped. Sorry for the long post but I had to tell somebody the story or bust. The wife is tired of hearing it.
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