Good luck in the morning and be safe.
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Getting ready for them turkeys!
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There is a boy turkey close to there.
Well I guess I'll throw the shotgun back in the truck, just in case I see a Tom that hangs around long enough for me to shoot. My hearing is so bad, there isn't any need in me trying to call birds anymore.
My lease is getting a prescribed burn on it currently, so I went to a local WMA for the opening day.
I heard a few gobbling from the roost, but they went silent after fly-down. I’m working today, then heading back to the WMA in the morning to hunt with a buddy of mine.
Called a jake in yesterday evening, he stayed just out of my comfortable range before eventually leaving out of the field. He came in looking for a fight it seemed like. This morning I had a hen come through and heard a couple gobbling in the distance. Bright side is my wife's grandfather killed one yesterday morning with his new shotgun we got him for his birthday.
Sounds like a successful hunt. Next time you deal with a Jake, try doing a kee kee run call on a diaphragm call. Hens do it a lot in the Fall or when separated from their brood. They work really well with Jakes especially because they are still juveniles and sometimes are effective on other call-shy birds. It’s a very underutilized call and a lot of birds don’t hear it much in the spring woods.
If you have a hard time getting that sound from a diaphragm call, try flipping the call upside down in your mouth and apply a little more pressure on it than normal.
it was a successful hunt, it got me addicted. He came in and left and I called him back and he was calling back. I gotta get used to diaphragm calls, I was using one of the knight and hale box calls that's on a spring with a plunger, I was doing a cutt purr when he responded and came back in.
May be a stupid question but when you get busted by deer does it tank your turkey hunt? The ones I heard gobbling this morning seemed like they were getting closer then got busted by two does and the gobbling stopped.
