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Gobble Gobble
- Thread starter Guyon
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OUTSTANDING!!! Anybody who has ever hunted turkey knows that bagging one is no easy feat. Congrats!
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Congrats thats a Beauty !
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Feeder? I don't hunt no stinkin' feeder. 
Starting about 8:30, I heard a bird gobbling off and on down in a small strip of green field (grass) between two wooded hills. Heard some hen yelps down that way as well.
By about 9:20 or so, I had managed to get set up near the end of the green slip without getting totally busted by the turkeys. I was just tucked up in the woods. I yelped about three or four times with a mouth call and then shut up. It wasn't five minutes before I saw him slipping along the wood line to my left looking for "the hen." He motored on in at a pretty steady clip, moving from my left to my right, until I got him in my sights straight on at about 25 yards.
Starting about 8:30, I heard a bird gobbling off and on down in a small strip of green field (grass) between two wooded hills. Heard some hen yelps down that way as well.
By about 9:20 or so, I had managed to get set up near the end of the green slip without getting totally busted by the turkeys. I was just tucked up in the woods. I yelped about three or four times with a mouth call and then shut up. It wasn't five minutes before I saw him slipping along the wood line to my left looking for "the hen." He motored on in at a pretty steady clip, moving from my left to my right, until I got him in my sights straight on at about 25 yards.
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Congrats felixXJ. 20 lbs. is a nice bird.
I've only had luck once with a decoy. In the early dawn, I had a tom fly off roost, come to yelps, and then fan out and strut beside my decoy. Shot that three-bearded gobbler before 6:30. Other than that one time though, decoys have never worked all that well for me.
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Nice bird!:thumbup:
Looks like the one my big cat got up in Sonoma
Looks like the one my big cat got up in Sonoma
Bagged this tom at 9:30 this morning. Not a big gobbler by any means, but a mature bird. 15 lbs. 3 oz. 9" beard. 5/8" spurs. Cleaned him with an AD.
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I'm not even sure this was the bird I heard gobbling. It's a smaller tom and likely a subordinate tom. After I yelped, he came in quick and quiet. Makes me think there might be a bigger, more vocal, more dominant bird in that same area.
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Stuffin' the turkey early huh?
(I see your boots) LMAO
Hey, don't knock it until you've tried it.
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Nice Bird !!! 9in beard is pretty good. I think your right though, the dominant gobbler prob. stayed back.
Means you got to go back and get him to.
Man theres nothing like the feeling of calling a bird up, when you here one coming to your call its one heck of a rush.
Great Job! Thanks for pics
Means you got to go back and get him to.
Man theres nothing like the feeling of calling a bird up, when you here one coming to your call its one heck of a rush.
Great Job! Thanks for pics
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Thanx Guyon! I used a 50 year old box call my father gave me. A "Lynch's World Champion Model 102". It's older than I am. I wish I had some pictures of the gobbler but I discovered my digital camera was broken Sunday morning.
It's OK though, my dad got to see the turkey first thing.
It's OK though, my dad got to see the turkey first thing.
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Nothing wrong with a Lynch. Makes the hunt even more special if, as in your case, you used a call that came from a family member.Thanx Guyon! I used a 50 year old box call my father gave me. A "Lynch's World Champion Model 102". It's older than I am. I wish I had some pictures of the gobbler but I discovered my digital camera was broken Sunday morning.
It's OK though, my dad got to see the turkey first thing.
A good box call, if kept dry, will just get better sounding with age.
My uncle makes some nice calls out of walnut, mahogany, and teak. The last tom (prior to yesterday's bird) I bagged, I called up with one of his box calls. I found an old pic of both the turkey and the call (sitting beside the bird).
