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3. A distant woodpecker

2. A tree frog

1. The rumble of my stomach


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Woodpecker is the worst. Especially on mornings where you haven't heard crap or your in a deep sleep and hear it and it wakes you up....
 
A little different than the original question, but I once hunted a small tract of public land I'd never hunted before. Struck a bird gobbling just across the line on private and spent all morning moving and repositioning and trying to get him to come my way. This was before phones with good maps. I finally left and looked up maps on a computer. There was a little house ~ 200 yards through the woods where I'd hunted. I drove over there a few days later and realized they had a farm turkey in a pen behind their house.
 
Southern Sportsman":p8gbmk1c said:
A little different than the original question, but I once hunted a small tract of public land I'd never hunted before. Struck a bird gobbling just across the line on private and spent all morning moving and repositioning and trying to get him to come my way. This was before phones with good maps. I finally left and looked up maps on a computer. There was a little house ~ 200 yards through the woods where I'd hunted. I drove over there a few days later and realized they had a farm turkey in a pen behind their house.
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Funny you mention this. I did same thing YEARS ago on Westvaco land in Stewart County, TN off of Hwy 232. Humped several hills and descended down the final slope until I could see the yard turkey burning it down at 7:30 in the morning. :)
 
Southern Sportsman":10l24k5s said:
A little different than the original question, but I once hunted a small tract of public land I'd never hunted before. Struck a bird gobbling just across the line on private and spent all morning moving and repositioning and trying to get him to come my way. This was before phones with good maps. I finally left and looked up maps on a computer. There was a little house ~ 200 yards through the woods where I'd hunted. I drove over there a few days later and realized they had a farm turkey in a pen behind their house.
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:lol: :lol: :lol: I have also fallen victim to this in the past. Spent half the morning trying to figure out where in the world that stupid turkey was. Finally gave up and went back to the truck and saw him in the neighbor's yard when I was leaving.
 
Andy S.":5klsmdu6 said:
Southern Sportsman":5klsmdu6 said:
A little different than the original question, but I once hunted a small tract of public land I'd never hunted before. Struck a bird gobbling just across the line on private and spent all morning moving and repositioning and trying to get him to come my way. This was before phones with good maps. I finally left and looked up maps on a computer. There was a little house ~ 200 yards through the woods where I'd hunted. I drove over there a few days later and realized they had a farm turkey in a pen behind their house.
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Funny you mention this. I did same thing YEARS ago on Westvaco land in Stewart County, TN off of Hwy 232. Humped several hills and descended down the final slope until I could see the yard turkey burning it down at 7:30 in the morning. :)
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I'm pretty sure that I made the opposite mistake several years ago. I was on top of a ridge and struck a turkey in the bottom of the hollow that I thought was my uncle's pet after a few minutes. I moved on out the ridge and about 15 minutes later heard something come in behind me about where I was originally at that was more than likely the gobbler. I pawned it off as some other critter and didn't think much about it until later. I should have gave it some more time and at least circled around calling to whatever did come up out of the hollow. Just a lesson learned but funny now that I think of it...... :)
 
I have also fallen victim to tame gobblers. There was one at a house across the creek from the backside of our property one year that I think had the wild gobblers afraid to make a peep.
 
Where I hunt somebody has a pet peacock. It doesn't sound anything like a turkey but every morning he lights up the woods.
 

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