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Stone, the satisfaction is what its all about.Glad you had a good time.I was skunked but saw a lot of game.They stopped gobbling after 7:15 for me, theyve never done that where I was hunting before.Got the next 4 days off so Ill get after em again.
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Set up at 5:15 this morning and got in a little close to a big bird on the roost. He didn't pick me off, but had to hear me setting up. He was gobbling his fool head off. Double and triple gobbling. I was on a ridge top and he was in a tree about 40 yards away. I knew he would pitch down on the ridge and I was hoping he would come right in. I was snuggled up real good in some nice thick blackberry brush. I was giving him some soft yelps and purrs just to let him know I was ready for him. He pitched off the roost and landed on the ridge top not 35 yards away, might as well be 135. I gave a couple soft yelps, he gobbles and proceeds to walk down the hill in the opposite direction. He hurt my feelings, I was sounding all sexy and ready and he turned his back on me. I gave a little more excited yelps, with some cutting in and found out why he left me. There was a group of hens further down the ridge that I didn't see. They didn't like me competing with their man so gave me the business. I immediately pulled up and went in the opposite direction to a flat about 150 yards away. I set up and snuggled into some more briars, nothing like getting a butt full of stickers. After I set up I pulled out the raspy hen calls and proceeded to fire the hens up. It worked just like it was supposed to and I pulled the hens right in. Three came straight in and saw something they didn't like. They were putting and making a general nuisance of themselves. Fortunately, the big boy was occupied with a hen and didn't pay them any attention... 20 something #s, 10" beard, and 1 1/4" spurs. He is a bona fide limbhanger. I have pictures! What a great morning before heading off to work!
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Nice stories guys and congrats on the bird Terry. I got one this am with (shhhhh) the bang stick. Now for the rest of the season its bow all the way :0) Best of luck :0) Drew
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Andy, if you had a great morning and enjoyed your time afield, then it doesn't matter what you were toting! Congratulations on a successful hunt!
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I will be heading out tomorrow around nine...I wish I could get out there at first light, but I will take what time in the woods I can get. I still hear em gobbling every night and every morning, and only one has been taken around here(with a boomstick) which was 18# and had a nine inch beard. These stories have been killing me....I will post tomorrow after the hunt.
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I had no gobbles off the roost today, but at 8:10 had a nice big old hen come right in to the decoys at 7-9 yards clucking. She stood around for a few seconds then walked off behind me. This proved my blind set up was good....
Near 10:00 I heard a faint gobble in response to a call… then a crow called and he gobbled. I knew right off he was a jake by the way he sounded.... He came quickly to my calls and was circling at 20-25 yards to my right when he saw my jake decoy. He took one look and turned and snuck away. I had a hen and a jake decoy out..... Now I was second guessing about putting out that jake decoy, or maybe the decoy's head is to blue-gray and looks too dominate, maybe it should be all red?
Anyway at 10:30 I heard a gobbler sound off and there were two birds answering my cutting.... I called some more and they came closer and closer.... I thought I would see them any second but then I heard a hen call and the next time they gobbled to answer my cutting they were far off again. I stuck it out till 11:30 then walked out. Excellent morning....
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I set my blind up tonight in a different spot all kinds of fresh scratching it was still wet. Glad i moved locations i heard someone trying to roost one blowing on a crow call right were i was the other day. I'll have to report tomorrow and let you know what happens. Good luck everyone. I have shot a lot of them with a bang stick nothing wrong with it, but not this year it will be trad or no bird for me.
-------------------- Proverbs 12:27 The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
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Took my son this morning before he had to go to school. We had 4 gobbling around us, but we also had a dozen hens to compete with. The hens did not want to share their boyfriends and led them away. Good morning though. We learned something for tomorrow morning.
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I went out about 9:30 with the idea of walking around looking for a lonely gobbler to answer some yelps, or a crow call. I walked up on a doe with last years young ones following. They took about a minute to decide I was not supposed to be there. Had a chicadee land on my head(I was calling them too)lol. I found a ton of may apples and fiddleheads. Oh yeah....didnt hear a single note from the turkey kind...nor did I find any fresh sign. Great morning though.
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Being new to New York - what's a Fiddlehead? Is it one of the smaller black morel mushrooms? Also, do you get the big yellow morels up here?
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Had almost the exact same thing happen on a shot I had at one. Just missed. I had no problem finding my arrow(another good reason for a string tracker!) Better luck to both of us next time!
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The sounds of spring, my favourite part! Nothing beats turkeys Gobbling at first light. Great story, were ready for chapter two and the pictures to boot. Good luck!
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Went out today saw three guys waling in the other end of the woods. I heard one gobble on roost two times, at about 6:10 he started gobbling on the ground after i called he answered every cluck i made then nothing. He must have found a girlfriend, i took my mounted turkey out for the first time she's a bearded hen i have had for over 20 years. My daughter named her Frazier when she was little. I'm really interested in what kind of reactions i get from even the hens, no luck today maybe tomorrow.
-------------------- Proverbs 12:27 The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.
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