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I've got roosted gobblers located. I've watched them come off the roost this week, hook up with hens, and head up a hill and cross one of m food plots. This pattern has been used this year and last year. Game camera footage indicates it's a daily thing. Here's the question. Do you try to get close to the roost and hope for a fly down to you instead of the other hens in the area, or do you set up some dekes in the plot and wait the 45 minutes or so it will take for the entire gaggle to get there?
 
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I've got roosted gobblers located. I've watched them come off the roost this week, hook up with hens, and head up a hill and cross one of m food plots. This pattern has been used this year and last year. Game camera footage indicates it's a daily thing. Here's the question. Do you try to get close to the roost and hope for a fly down to you instead of the other hens in the area, or do you set up some dekes in the plot and wait the 45 minutes or so it will take for the entire gaggle to get there?
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I would prob try to intersect them along the known travel corridor but not too far from the roost. I'm not big on decoys but they do sometimes work. Just my 02. YMMV


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I'd go to the area I know they been using and wait. But that's how I like to hunt. I wouldn't risk bumping them off the roost. Good luck
 
Depends on how you like to hunt. If you are just wanting to kill, sit in the travel corridor with a semi-strut jake and hen and don't make a peep.

If you want a good challenge, set up close to where they are roosted and try to convince them to fly your way off the roost. You will have to compete with live hens and that oftentimes ends in watching the flock go the opposite direction of you. However, this route will give you a more exciting hunt.


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If I was sure they were gonna cross the food plot then I wouldn't even bother with decoys.


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So, I set up slightly above the roost area with a hen decoy behind me. The gobbler I was hunting didn't materialize, but the hens hung around, never moving up the hill. About 7 o'clock one gobbled about a 1/3d mile away to my left. I yelped a few minutes later and he closed the distance. My placement was good as I was between him and the hens. He ended hanging up on a ridge about 80 yards away. Strutting but not coming any further. I let the hens below me keep doing the talking and added some purrs of my own. He finally gave in and headed directly for me. When he got behind a tree, I got the gun up and laid him down as he strutted out into the open. 30 yards, 11 inch beard, 1 inch spurs, 22 pounds. On the boom, the hens cut loose and two more gobbled just below me. Heard a total of 8 gobblers this morning, 2 as early as an hour before sunrise.
 

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