MarlinSlayer
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Ok, three days without a gobble hunting Natchez Trace and my farm....setting up in edge of fields. We're going in cold except I've seen turkeys here in past midday. I know they will come in silent, and when my buddy who was alone for 20 mins heard a boom boom boom very close didn't know what it was.... Honestly he fidgets a lot. I have not heard a turkey drum and I've never heard it myself as I've only killed two (both in strut)...don't know if it was one drumming or not. I've seen two lone hens and a group of two and a group of three, but no Toms.
Only morning we got up early enough to hear roost gobbles where I figured the were roosting there was nothing. I've seen six of those seven hens walking the same way at 5:30. On my farm, each day we were going to hit it early, we had pouring down rain. We've used lone hens, no decoys, and a full strut gobbler mounting a hen.
My new farm is 97 acres and previous owner kied five turkeys off there last year....(sent me a pic of every one while we were negotiating...as a side note, I told him every bird he killed reduced the price by $1k)
Game cams on my farm showed lots of hens and gobblers thru the fall, wife saw one tom and 26 hens in field while deer hunting. I know the easy answer into go to farm at dawn and listen for gobbles...but we rarely get a chance to continuously hunt Natchez Trace.. He also doesmt like to stay out late enough to figure out where they roost ...no evening gobbles anyway.
Enough venting...here's my question, when you all talk about not calling too much, are you talking about how often?
I know when you strike one, you want to be quiet and make him come look. When cold calling, how often and whT kind of sequence? I've beet cutting with a few yelps thrown in about every twenty mins. I feel like we are deer hunting for turkeys....we don't move too much because he has a bum foot. I can't convince him to sit on a cushion and he insists I sitting on a one foot high stool. I've put up 18 inch Camo net around his tree to help that.
Tommorrow going to hunt my lease for last time.....I've killed my only two birds there one with decoy in open, one in woods without.
We may head back to my farm tonight and hunt from a ground blind that has bee up for 8 months where I had birds on camera in fall. Getting him to quit fidgeting and sit dow Are probably not gonna be an option till he sees a bird and gets busted by it....for the record, spending four days screwing around
With him is more important than moping a bird. Last year same results. Only gobbler I saw was she. He later down and ell asleep...bird spooked when I tried to wake him.. Next time he'll wake up to a gunshot.
Only morning we got up early enough to hear roost gobbles where I figured the were roosting there was nothing. I've seen six of those seven hens walking the same way at 5:30. On my farm, each day we were going to hit it early, we had pouring down rain. We've used lone hens, no decoys, and a full strut gobbler mounting a hen.
My new farm is 97 acres and previous owner kied five turkeys off there last year....(sent me a pic of every one while we were negotiating...as a side note, I told him every bird he killed reduced the price by $1k)
Game cams on my farm showed lots of hens and gobblers thru the fall, wife saw one tom and 26 hens in field while deer hunting. I know the easy answer into go to farm at dawn and listen for gobbles...but we rarely get a chance to continuously hunt Natchez Trace.. He also doesmt like to stay out late enough to figure out where they roost ...no evening gobbles anyway.
Enough venting...here's my question, when you all talk about not calling too much, are you talking about how often?
I know when you strike one, you want to be quiet and make him come look. When cold calling, how often and whT kind of sequence? I've beet cutting with a few yelps thrown in about every twenty mins. I feel like we are deer hunting for turkeys....we don't move too much because he has a bum foot. I can't convince him to sit on a cushion and he insists I sitting on a one foot high stool. I've put up 18 inch Camo net around his tree to help that.
Tommorrow going to hunt my lease for last time.....I've killed my only two birds there one with decoy in open, one in woods without.
We may head back to my farm tonight and hunt from a ground blind that has bee up for 8 months where I had birds on camera in fall. Getting him to quit fidgeting and sit dow Are probably not gonna be an option till he sees a bird and gets busted by it....for the record, spending four days screwing around
With him is more important than moping a bird. Last year same results. Only gobbler I saw was she. He later down and ell asleep...bird spooked when I tried to wake him.. Next time he'll wake up to a gunshot.
