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String Music

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turkeys didn't gobble??

I was thinkin about this the other day and wondered how much I would still enjoy it. It just wouldn't be the same!
 
I have hunted populations in areas around my home that did not gobble at all. There area good flocks in these areas every year, myself, my Dad, and quite a few others have hunted these areas ever since there has been turkeys and we have heard a total of 2 gobbles between us all these years and they were from jakes. We still hunt there some,just have to ambush them like you would deer.
 
lol, what? So you guys can't kill a bird if it doesn't gobble? So yall don't hunt the silent birds, they are the hardest ones to me.
 
they taste too good, license cost too much and lease fees are high enough not to go. the last 2 I shot never uddered a sound but my heart was still pounding when they snuck in.
 
It wouldn't be near as much fun but I'd still hunt them. Just have to sit and blind call for longer periods of time until you were sure nothing was in distance of you and then move to another spot. It sure wouldn't be the same though without the big gobble to get your blood flowing.
 
i prob still would but not as much and definitely not as serious. I agree with the others that I just CANNOT deer hunt turkeys, to me that is not very fun. I would still go out and see if i could find them and ambush them though.

The topic didnt say you still couldnt call one in so that part would still keep me in the woods
 
Well,I may have to change my answer because I still love to hear them spit-n-drum sooooo.....I prob would still hunt them.
 
A few years ago, I hunted hard for about three or four days in a row and didn't hear a gobble on the big farm I was hunting. On the fourth day I called in a group of four toms and killed the biggest one of the bunch. The all four came in silent not the first gobble. I still had a blast, but would have enjoyed it all the more if they would have been gobbling.
 
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