longbeardfever4ever

i just bought myself a jake gobble call and was wondering what everyone's opinion was on gobble calls? i know that they can be dangerous at times and i plan to use it mainly on private land. Although i may try it on really stubborn birds on public land. What's your opinion?

hi everyone, i was just wondering how many of you can gobble with a mouth call? (diaphragm) I just gobbled for the first time today and i had practiced for a LONG time! just wondering, im not bragging or anything:D

you can read about mine, its called season wrapped in a tortilla.....

Thank you very much! i know 1 thing im getting. A field and stream premium turkey vest!

well, someone else had already said in a nutshell so i had to change it:D! I had been hearing reports of people seeing flocks of a hundred+ birds in early April so i was PUMPED. I had gotten a bunch of calls over the winter but my favorite was the M.A.D. Heavy Metal Aluminator. My dad and i went out on youth day and we were not set up 10 minutes and had a bird within 150 yards double, triple, and quadruple gobbling! We were not even calling yet and this bird was going CRAZY! So we let out some soft tree yelps and he hammered right back. We started hearing other gobblers around us within a couple of mountains but only 2 or 3. We could tell that thiss bird was definitely a Dominant Gobbler. About 15 minutes later we let out some yelps and nobody answered. This boy was already henned up at 6 am. We waited and left at 7:30, a Big mistake. That probably cost me that bird:o. So we got home and we were home about 30 minutes and what happens but a jake walks across the field in front of my house over across a stream. So i let out some yelps on my MAD call and he gave a distorted little gobble. He wasnt very interested though:). That same morning at about 10 we had 2 gobblers behind our house sounding off with no avail! so i went back and had them gobbling at every call but they wouldnt come in. All in all a pretty exciting youth day! A couple days later i see a dominant bird strutting with about 8-9 hens 300 yards from our house and on private property:mad:. Next morning i spotted him again, same place, same full fan. So i decided to start going out behind our house to scout for gobblers. The first morning i had 4 gobblers answer right away and then hen up. Then that week i talked to a gobbler across the road and nearly called him in, but the gobbler was spooked after some close shotgun blasts. A couple days later i did the same thing but he was held up in heavy cover and wouldnt come! The second morning i had 5-6 gobblers and the third morning i had 8+ gobblers surrounding me. I nearly called 2 or them in but these boys were not goin downhill! So we went back up to the public land and lost the bird that we had heard earlier but still heard about 8-10 different birds within 300-700 yards. The next week was the same so we went out behind our house. The birds didnt feel much like gobblin by then. except for of course the 2 gobblers ACROSS the road:mad:. So i scouted and called more that week and found a different hot spot. This is close to a stand of pines but they were roosting in lone hemlocks. I had 3 birds answering all of my calls and bumped a hen off the roost. I was within 20 yards of that roosted gobbler when he shut up. So next morning i go out and they have roosted on the other side of the stream. i blew my hs strut hammerin crow twice and 2 birds answered. I blew it again and they once more fired back. So, with my voice i went wakk wakk wakk wakk, wakk wakk wakk WAAKKK! and they went nuts! i did it once more and while they gobbled i crept to within 40 yards and they had no idea that i was there. But then for no obvious reason the gobblers treehopped back into a stand of pines on POSTED property and wouldnt sound off. I was then left with a tree full of clucking hens:(. The next saturday we went out and didnt hear a thing. It had poured overnight and they had moved who knows where! i went scouting some the next week and didnt hear a bird. So we ended unsuccessful, a bit frustrated, but very Excited for the year to come! Not to mention this fall!

Welcome to the forum! ive always wanted to do those kind of pics! they are AWESOME!

thats gonna be a monster!

there is one BEASTY buck! great shot!

nice pic! im hoping to get a trail camera this fall.... any of you think while hunting public land i should get a lock?

that thing is going to be HUGE! i hope u get him, he would make an AWESOME mount!

id love to live in canada.... it is amazing up there.... cool pics!

awesome pics! (your turkey looks a little deflated.......)

pretty sweet, we have a fox behind our house, pretty sure it has a den somewhere.......

thats gonna be one NICE buck, a real Dandy!

picked up some gamo .177mm for my pellet gun, that ought to work!

my boss has a bunch of good stuff and he sells some of it now and then. Well today for 3 hours of work i got a gun case! it has 2 bucks on the front and the case is brown.

Is it possible that you use Sceer decoys, those inflate and are 3d, guess they work quite well, i just got one!

I made a new thread and there is a pic of it if you want to see!

here is a pic of it, i just resized one of them as it would be a waste of time to do all the other ones!

i listed a patagonia reinvest on ebay. Its price is so far at ONLY 34.99! its msrp is $135! its brand new, here is the link! http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=130228870331&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling

sign me up for this golfers association!

sign me up!

the other day i listed a PATAGONIA reinvest on ebay. Right now it is at 34.99 with $10 shipping. It is brand new with tags and would be perfect for the kind of fishing you do! it has an MSRP of $135!!!!!!! thought you might like bidding on it, it is beautiful! (im a bass fisherman myself)

Thanks guys, this and reading some books should start me off this fall!!

Big ol black Bear!