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Tips on Settin up on a Bird

After reading what I've read here, I'm definitely going to amp it up a bit this year with more aggressive set ups. Esspecially with a new baby now, the days of hunting 4 or 5 mornings a week are over for me for a while, so when I get the chance to go, I have to get after em.
 
I get as close as I can just like Setterman said. I have belly crawled and extra 20-30 yards in the dark just to get close enough to him. I will make a few soft calls, let him know I am there and then shut up. Its worked more times then it has failed. I have bumped a bunch and that is part of it. You have to take a punch every once in a while.
 
Man I gotta say every bird is differant. What worked on this bird didn't work on that bird. It is a chess match sometimes, gotta think if he does this and I do that what is he gonna do after that and then what am I gonna do. And then the game changes. I have worked a bird for a good hour with no results, changed calls and he came in on a rope. Like I said I have made the same call change and they disappear. And a few times I have sat there in silance for nearly an hour after working a bird that shut down and he came on in. I don't get locked into one strategy, I gotta be able to change with the game, but seems most of the time I don't know the rules.
 
you gotta stay after them, ive killed birds in as little as 15 min of getting out of the truck, and i have played with some birds for as long as daylight to almost dark, everybird is different thats what makes it so much fun,getting close is the best thing i ever learned to do my kill percentage has went way up since i started pushing the distance between me and the bird
 
Well like you all said, everyone hunts differently, i personally have killed all 9 of my turkey within a 50 yd radius, all further than 1 mile from the closest field, so i was pretty deep in the woods, i made a makeshift blind out of some limbs and made it about 2-3 ft high and i sit right in the middle of it, i never left that spot for anything and the patience usually paid off, i liked to play the waiting game because even if the turkey wasnt interested then, he might be later, and come back to that hot hen he heard earlier, which has happened to me many times, i have had them travel long distances to come to me, sometimes close to a mile, no telling how many i could have killed if i moved on some of the birds i heard, but i killed 9 toms, should be close to 20, but you all know how they sneak in from the opposite direction you expect them to come from and bust you almost half the time
 
Hawk said:
When you think you need to get one or two steps closer back up ten sit down hide and be still.
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dont get me wrong.. run and gun is fun for sure.

I personally either bump 2 many birds tho, or move on a bird only to find him right where i just was..

killed many more birds bein patient with em
 
i use to always try to get to close,now i go out sumtimes and fix up sum places b4 the season,i will make lil blinds on the edges of fields and next to logging roads etc,and i always try to remember where they was the previous year during that time period,that helps me alot
 
WingNut said:
I get as close as I can just like Setterman said. I have belly crawled and extra 20-30 yards in the dark just to get close enough to him. I will make a few soft calls, let him know I am there and then shut up. Its worked more times then it has failed. I have bumped a bunch and that is part of it. You have to take a punch every once in a while.
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So true, I can't count the number of times that I pushed the envelope by getting an extra 20-30 yards and it made a huge difference. The reasons are too many to list here, but pushing the edge on set ups will pay off, and inevitably some birds will get bumped, however more will take a ride home with you.
 

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