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Thurs 69 hunters..... Two birds killed....big ones though. We saw a Tom and two hens......but when we tried to work him from the field, a "courteous" hunter drove by and scared them off. We decided to bail after the hunt was over for the day, even though we patterned the Tom, as we went in essentially blind ( we had a hint about that bird from another hunter) we thought the likelyhood of getting the pole position for the start on Fri unlikely enough to warrant a stay unhopeful as we didn't know where else we'd go, if we got beat to the punch on our spot.

Managers said it's been all screwed up from the previous four hunts. Big bird killed did have a ten inch beard and 1.5 hooks.

We hunted the woods mid morning and saw nothing but heard the water drops several times. We were covered up in water drops in the woods just shy of the field we hunted. Heard them at LBL this week as we'll. We are now at Natchez Trace....for two days. Now that I know what a water drop means, I realize we were thick in hens....thinking I might have made a mistake leaving Chuck Swan, but figured pressure would be worse as we went into weekend.

No decoys all week..... Saw on the inter web thingy that Toms will make the water drop when looking for a hen with none in sight.
 
Chuck Swan can be brutal late. I've been drawn twice for this weekend over the years and it always humbled me pretty good. I ended up killing one each time but compared to my normal Chuck Swan experiences it was completely different, and I think it had more to do with hens then with other hunters
 
Never heard of gobblers or hens doing the "water drop." Somebody please explain it without being sarcastic.
 
woodsman87 said:
Never heard of gobblers or hens doing the "water drop." Somebody please explain it without being sarcastic.
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When hens are flocked up they make this bizarre water dripping noise that must be some sort of contented here I am noise, they do it a lot and unless you're really close you rarely hear, but if you're close you'll hear them doing it all the time
 
Sometimes you will hear it at the end of a feeding/content purr, its likely the other hens doing it but it sounds like one long vocalization.
 
Setterman said:
woodsman87 said:
Never heard of gobblers or hens doing the "water drop." Somebody please explain it without being sarcastic.
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When hens are flocked up they make this bizarre water dripping noise that must be some sort of contented here I am noise, they do it a lot and unless you're really close you rarely hear, but if you're close you'll hear them doing it all the time
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I have been close to many many hens and have never heard anything that sounded like a water drip into a bowl of a sink.

I have heard them do a purr, it is only audible from about 10 yards, heard them "whine" which is similiar to what hen chickens do.
 

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