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The 2 Most Exciting Type Hunts...

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Mike Belt

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...For me anyway. One is when you're set up and calling and getting answered by multiple toms from different directions and they're all coming in. One will get closer coming in behind you and then back out while another gets closer from the front. In and out back to front or sides, and back and forth. You don't know which bird to concentrate on and keep flipping your attention from one bird to another. The other is when a bird gobbles on the other side of a ridge top from you. You clearly can't get on top of the ridge so you have to set up just off the side and try to pull him just over the top. He's strutting and fanning and spitting back and forth just over the top of the ridge. You can see the top of his fan as he does so but just won't commit to taking that last few steps over the top.

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Sitting in my blind watching over a field with my decoy spread of 6 hens, a jake, and a strutter. Bird steps into the field 300 yards away, sees my spread and runs as fast as it can to me without me ever making a call. That's a sho nuff turkey hunt
 
Setterman":1vyftmkq said:
Sitting in my blind watching over a field with my decoy spread of 6 hens, a jake, and a strutter. Bird steps into the field 300 yards away, sees my spread and runs as fast as it can to me without me ever making a call. That's a sho nuff turkey hunt
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But you don't shoot him because he didn't gobble and strut, and his head looks like a hen's head in the fall. :tu:
 
Setter... Too easy. I always wait until they get within 25-30 yards and then jump up flushing them into the air so I can get a flying shot.
 
I feel a little guilty about it, but I really enjoy calling in hens and having them feet away from me while waiting for the GB to follow into range. It's exhausting trying to stay still with birds right on top of you looking for you, and gratifying to actually pull off the kill without spooking them.

My other favorite is just the classic strike a hot bird, have him constantly gobbling closer and closer, hear him spitting/ drumming when he gets inside 40.
 
It hasn't happened often, but the few times it did was awesome spinning around a tree.
 
Don't know about most exciting but my favorite is when I locate him on the limb. Get close enough and call he flies down and wanderers over to me gobbling his head off. I kill him and am back at camp before my wife has even gotten up! She is like" I knew I should have gone with you this morning"!
 

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