TEAM #24: Cluck...Cluck...BOOM!


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Hey Fullfan - it's a good thing to show your teammates your monster bird from last year, but are you going to remind them about that little cut around your eye... grin.gifgrin.gif he he he...

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Aw man I was hoping everyone forgot that... How have you been??

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Guys I have some bad news. I have never shot a spring gobbler... I have shot a jake and 2 hens in the fall, all with my bow though.

In the spring a few years back I called in two jakes but passed them up and never got lucky again. I have found that birds get call shy really quick around west central PA every spring. Each year I generally call to maybe 20 toms, but usually they are henned up and shut-up...so they don't come in at all.

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Hey Busckslayer, I have always found that when the toms are henned-up in the morning that they usually leave there hens late in the afternoon, and will then come in to a call,two of the three that I got last year were around two in the afternoon, and I had chased them all day and then all of a sudden they came right in.

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Buckslayer, I might just have to make a trip down to Indiana Co. And see if we can get you your first longbeard....

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I might have to make a trip up to Elk co. and steal one of your birds! I hear you pen raise them and clip their wings...??

Seriously I'd welcome some help, and I'll keep the offer in mind as the season gets closer!

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Yeah we see them out all the time, alone, in the afternoons --- but we can only hunt from dawn til noon during the spring season... Otherwise I woulda just set up in a feeding area (which I still may try) and wait like hunting for deer...

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when they arent breakin up till late in the afternoon i usually just try and pattern them like huntin fall birds. find out where they r flyin down after the roost, usually to a strut zone or feeding area, and just try and intercept them. the hens will usually take them away if u do much callin so just sit and wait for em and see what happens. i tooke a bird using this strategy a few years back when they would not come to ne calls. another strategy would be to try and use a jake call or a kee-kee run if ur dealing witha mature,dominant gobbler. if he knows there is a young jake in the are, **** break from the hens and come stormin in to investigate. just my 2 cents, good luck to ya buck, as well as the rest of the team

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Aww man I just want to forget that ...

Okay here is the story one more time. I set up on this bird and he was gobbling good, then for an hour nothing. My set up was not the best due to a small tree just to my left. This bird came sneeking in from my left. As he went behind a tree I had to move my gun around this tree. In doing so I also had to lean back and to the left. This put the stock of my gun off my shoulder. I shoot a Super X-2 with a scope and the Nirto loads. First shot cut my fore head, the second broke my nose. I killed this bird 4 days later. And he had 1.50" spurs.

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Aww man I just want to forget that ...

Okay here is the story one more time. I set up on this bird and he was gobbling good, then for an hour nothing. My set up was not the best due to a small tree just to my left. This bird came sneeking in from my left. As he went behind a tree I had to move my gun around this tree. In doing so I also had to lean back and to the left. This put the stock of my gun off my shoulder. I shoot a Super X-2 with a scope and the Nirto loads. First shot cut my fore head, the second broke my nose. I killed this bird 4 days later. And he had 1.50" spurs.

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i dunno whether to laugh or feel bad.....either way thats a heck of a story and those r somne MONSTER hooks

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