YEKRUT
Well-Known Member
Started out on this bird at daylight but all he wanted to do was gobble and run. I cut off of him and tried two others that were in different locations. I come back to this bird about 8 after not being able to do anything with the others. This bird never quit gobbling and I could hear him on the other side of the property while I was messing with the others. He was in a place where I couldn't get any closer than about 200 yards to him on a hardwood point that had jungle pines on 3 sides and wide open hardwoods in front. I moved on him 15-20 times trying to find his sweet spot. All the time he would gobble, double gobble, triple gobble, and a few times quadruple gobble. By he time he got to the 3rd or 4th gobble he would run out of steam and it would sound like a jake gobble, which by his behavior I was beginning to wonder if he was a jake and scared of women. I gobbled to him, kee kee'd, assembly yelped, cut, purred, I threw it all his way and he would gobble and keep the open holler between us. I got up and left him yelping the whole time and that seemed to make him move some. Finally I had enough and left yelping load the whole time. This really tore him up and he come into the holler. I run back and set down about 3 rows deep in the pine edge near the hardwoods and soft yelped to him. Here he comes finally, 200 yards and hangs up....I yelp again and he quadruple gobbles. I can hear him drumming and decide jake or not this SOG is getting a dirt nap if he comes into range. I hear him walking and he gobbles at 40 yards behind a clump of rose bushes. I flip the safety off and when he steps out I dent the primer on his head at 12:20. Turned out to be a 3 year old maybe. 20# 4 oz., 9.5" beard, 7/8" and 15/16" spurs both pretty sharp. It's been a long morning, but very rewarding.
