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After listening to 4 toms gobble, but not move, for over an hour Sat morning, I set up much closer to them this morning.
Same thing. Gobbled for almost 2 hours, but none would move.
So decided to get closer. Found a tom 100yds from 3 hens. The hens yelped and the tom gobbled and strutted. This back and forth went on forever, with no one giving any ground!
I put myself in the path of the hens thinking the tom might follow, but he turned around and went the other direction.
Here were 3 willing hens but this tom would not even walk downhill to make the hookup!! Heck, at midday they were still gobbling.
They just don't seem to have much interest in actually sealing the deal.
 
LanceS4803 said:
After listening to 4 toms gobble, but not move, for over an hour Sat morning, I set up much closer to them this morning.
Same thing. Gobbled for almost 2 hours, but none would move.
So decided to get closer. Found a tom 100yds from 3 hens. The hens yelped and the tom gobbled and strutted. This back and forth went on forever, with no one giving any ground!
I put myself in the path of the hens thinking the tom might follow, but he turned around and went the other direction.
Here were 3 willing hens but this tom would not even walk downhill to make the hookup!! Heck, at midday they were still gobbling.
They just don't seem to have much interest in actually sealing the deal.
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I believe your turkeys might be gay ;)
 
Try setting up above him. Gobblers are funny about coming down hill sometimes.




Or you could make your calls sound super fabulous...... :blush:
 
Trevor2 said:
The hens are supposed to come to him that's why he is gobbling.
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Yeah, but at some point you want to get "lucky" right?
Come on tom, throw that pride aside and charge on in! I promise to give you a break. :)

As for the hills, my thighs are killing me. These guys live in some steep terrain. Two steps up, one sliding step back. Wet weeds don't help. I'm not done with him yet though. He is a beautiful bird. The red shows bright even from a distance.
 
Subordinate birds, there is another gobbler nearby that is dominant and the bird/s you dealt with know that if they get near hens he is bringing a beating. This is pretty common early in the year, and as the season progresses those subordinate birds will eventually get a hen or two for themselves.
 
I watched a tom and 5 hens go to roost last Friday. A friend and I set up on the field saturday morning. He gobbled good on the roost then went quiet. An hour later we haven't seen or heard anything. Finally he stepped out into the field with a jake and no hens. He saw our decoys and marched right in but we never called to him while he was in the field. I have no idea where the hens went. Never seen one get away from the hens like that.
 
last year i had 2 gobblers hanging out at my place. i never seen them with any hens, nore did the strut or gobble. i hunted them nunerous times with and without decoys and they never responded. i think they were deaf and gay
 

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