Turkeygirl Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 empty handed:o Got in before 5am and set up with my hen decoy out. "The One" probably didn't start gobbling till 5:30...around 6ish or so he flies down and I see movement oput about 50-70 yards away. He gobbles off and on and for about 20 minutes at least I watch the tail fan of this bird as he struts in one spot the whole time! He had 1 hen with him last night so he must have been showing off. Eventually he goes down over the ridge...I know as I can hear his gobbles going farther away. So after awhile, I move down the ridge a little bit, find this real nice comfy tree with a fallen hemlock that provides some nice cover..I put out the jake with my hen and sit and wait, calling off and on. After about 1/2 hour I hear him gobble a few hundred yards away on the other side f this two small hills, and then this hen fires up on the hill I'm on! Boy was she hot about him,lol. Well he double gobbles and goes nuts for a minute. I decide to cut up the bank, across the field, over to the other side he's on, but up above him. I get over, sit down, he gobbles once from down in the woods and that is it. The hen who fired up came in to me and I intentionally spooked her, she flew off, I'm thinking good, she can't get to him before me,lol. Well I never heard another peep from that gobbler. I did hear a couple clucks from a hen, that was it. So I get up and quietly walk down the trail...the hen I originially spooked flies off again...I take a few more steps and a turkey takes off from the ground, shoot! But I'm thinking/hoping it was a hen because it took off from under some twiggy/brush hemlocks and stuff on the ground so maybe that was who made the clucks andit was a hen going to nest. And when I missed that gobbler last weekend, he didn't even fly, just ran, I think he's too fat to fly,lol. I tend to think the gobbler moved off down the ravine....I got my butt out of there though, I didn't spook anything else but I wasn't about to go any farther and ruin everything. So I'll be back up at the gravel pit tonight, hoping and praying they are roosting on the ridge again, which I would think would be likely and where I spooked that bird, wasn't on that ridge, so it's still "pristine" so to speak. I just hope it was't him I spooked....little discouraging...but I feel like he's tight with a hen and moved off...I mean he didn't even come in to the hen that was fired up or me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Turkeygirl Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 Of course there's a possibility when he gobbled later on, it was a different bird...there was a jake around before...I dunno...just hope I didn't ruin anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maytom Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 He might of seen you moving around!!! When he gobbled on the same hill you were on, I would of stayed right there and waited him out. PLay the silent game with him. Give out a few calls then shut up for 20 minutes. Usually the second time you start to call, he will gobble froom a very short distance away. Remember Patience is always your best virtue. They are on turkey time, not our time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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