How would you kill this bird?

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How would you kill this bird? I've got a season wrecker on my hands. He consumed my season last year and he's back. In the same area doing the same things. I'm 99% sure it's the same bird my son nicknamed my Nemesis last year. When I wake up on the mornings I have to work I wonder what he is doing and if he gobbled. I could probably go kill another bird. But I can't leave him alone.

He loves to gobble, but he never gobbles on the roost until it's too light to get really close. He will not come to a call. Ever. Even when I catch him alone midday he will stand in the middle of dry, open woods and gobble, but never make a move toward the "hen". When he hits the ground in the morning he will walk away gobbling. Every time. I've tried not calling. He always knows which direction to go. I've tried all sorts of different calls. I've tried everything. I can circle around and get in front of him and he will pass by out of range.

As frustrated as he gets me I'm really enjoying it. It will be bittersweet IF I ever kill him. Everyday when I leave I hear that line from Josey Wales: "We whooped 'em again Josey! We whooped 'em again!"

I honestly think he has been called in and shot at or peppered and he vowed to never go to a hen again. I know turkeys aren't supposed to be that smart but this one is. So, how would you kill this bird? And if the answer is fanning, save it.

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Leave a corn trail one piece at a time and set the last piece right at the end of your gun barrel and blow his head off!!! :) JK but sounds like he is a trophy to be mounted if you ever get him. How long you been after him?
 
TDW05":fnqwgfts said:
Leave a corn trail one piece at a time and set the last piece right at the end of your gun barrel and blow his head off!!! :) JK but sounds like he is a trophy to be mounted if you ever get him. How long you been after him?
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I hunted him for weeks last year. He showed back up Friday and I hunted him Friday, Saturday, Sunday. He consumed most of my season last year.
 
I hunted him for weeks last year. He showed back up Friday and I hunted him Friday, Saturday, Sunday. He consumed most of my season last year.[/quote]

WOW! I would defiantly have him mounted if you kill him! Hope you do.
 
I will come for a visit..... you can set up on one side of him and call.... this will make him go the opposite direction where I will set up and kill him for you.... When is the best weekend for you?

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Reminds me of a bird I hunted in Sevier county one year that started out as two, killed his buddy and spent the rest of the year chasing the survivor. Strange turkeys they were jet black, both of them and I never could kill the second bird. He loved to gobble but would never and I mean never even get close to offering me a chance
 
Soft calls in the area that he roosts late afternoon. Had a few that way and never did get them.
 
Grizzly Johnson":1l9o05wi said:
I will come for a visit..... you can set up on one side of him and call.... this will make him go the opposite direction where I will set up and kill him for you.... When is the best weekend for you?

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Just let me know when you want to come. You are always welcome. I owe you a bird anyway! ;) Bring your much better half too! Just not the 25th and 26th. I'll be in Missouri that week.
 
Gravey":1lc8l78m said:
No ideas other than being there as much as possible and hope you guess right on which way he's going off the roost. If he's call shy it sounds like its going to be blind luck to get a bead on him.
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We are thinking the same way. :tu:
 
Take someone hunting with you, set up on both sides of him, have your partner do the calling and he'll walk towards you and if he's gobbling you can get in front of him before he gets to you.
 
Is he with or around hens? I know that's typically the assumption since he won't leave them. The reason I ask is I had a bird like that a few years back and he'd do the same thing. In the end the reason was because a hen would not come to the call and would lead him away every setup I made. I ended up killing the bird but I had to fool the hen first.
 

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