Kill the strutter first?

[Boll Weevil]

Easy45's post about seeing the first strutter of the year got me thinking...when multiple gobblers come to the gun do you kill the strutter first?

 

[knightrider]

if the oppurtunity presents it self i will alawys shoot the strutter just so the others will come back and whoop up on him while he is floppin then my partner can shoot the other one.

 

[TeamMainStreet]

I try to wait and get all birds with beards into veiw. A lot of times the strutter isnt the dominant bird. Me and a buddy had one gobbling one day. I called it up out of a deep ditch and my buddy popped the first red head that came up over the hill. It turned out to be a jake and the longbeard gave us a flyby. So I try to wait.

 

[CopperHead77]

You always hear'em on videos say to shoot the strutter, but who really knows if thats actually the dominant one?

 

[Setterman]

The strutter is the dominant bird, otherwise he wouldn't be allowed to freely strut with other birds around. Just because he is dominant doesn't always equate to him being the largest or most mature of the group, he is just the meanest.

I shoot for the strutter, my reasoning is to break up the group and usually killing off a dominant bird will open up birds which have been quiet up until his demise. I have seen properties come alive days after a dominant bird goes down, these same properties were quiet up until that point many times.

 

[bvoss]

I try to shoot the strutter if the situation allows for it.

 

[VolDoug]

LOL, it's only happened once, and they all three were strutting!

What then ?

 

[kdxdude]

The strutter is the dominant bird, otherwise he wouldn't be allowed to freely strut with other birds around. Just because he is dominant doesn't always equate to him being the largest or most mature of the group, he is just the meanest.

I shoot for the strutter, my reasoning is to break up the group and usually killing off a dominant bird will open up birds which have been quiet up until his demise. I have seen properties come alive days after a dominant bird goes down, these same properties were quiet up until that point many times.

Yep, Setterman is spot-on on this one. I killed the boss bird in an area where I had only heard a few gobbles in prior years. After the boss went down, the whole mtn. erupted with gobbles.

 

[REN]

The strutter is the dominant bird, otherwise he wouldn't be allowed to freely strut with other birds around. Just because he is dominant doesn't always equate to him being the largest or most mature of the group, he is just the meanest.

I shoot for the strutter, my reasoning is to break up the group and usually killing off a dominant bird will open up birds which have been quiet up until his demise. I have seen properties come alive days after a dominant bird goes down, these same properties were quiet up until that point many times.

yup spot on in my book

 

[muddyboots]

I shoot the first one i can.

 

[easy45]

To be honest, If all of them are gonna give me a shot I take the bigger one, whether he is strutting or not, otherwise its the first one I can shoot

 

[Gravey]

The strutter is the dominant bird, otherwise he wouldn't be allowed to freely strut with other birds around. Just because he is dominant doesn't always equate to him being the largest or most mature of the group, he is just the meanest.

I shoot for the strutter, my reasoning is to break up the group and usually killing off a dominant bird will open up birds which have been quiet up until his demise. I have seen properties come alive days after a dominant bird goes down, these same properties were quiet up until that point many times.

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