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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5875227" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Appreciate every gobble and analyze every hunt for whether it was successful or unsuccessful. Appreciate the fact you can do everything right, and the bird can still win. And that's OK!</p><p></p><p>Yesterday morn I hunted public down here for a bird I've had gobble to me 2 out of 4 prior hunts. He's SUPER vocal... like will gobble back even 500y away. Problem is, he's on the opposite side of a 500y flat swampy bottom that is thick as stink. Like so thick you can only see 10 yards, and if you sit in it, you can't even swing your barrel without hitting wild rhododendron branches if he flanks. Last Sunday, he didn't answer me, so I pushed into the middle of that bottom and actually found a little knoll that's about 30y wide and 100y long that is a bit more open. Scratching in leaves there. Perfect place to kill him.</p><p></p><p>I set up there yest morn, and he gave me a single gobble from 350y away. About 30m later, he answered a call from 200y away. 20 min later, he free gobbled from 100y away. Flipped the safety off as this bird was already dead. But nope, he came out 75y away on the other side of the knoll and stood there for 45 minutes free gobbling over 30 times. I called a couple times as soft as I could, not even sure he heard. Scratched leaves, purred, etc. Just couldn't get him to budge in 30y more for the kill. Finally a real hen came up and they headed off together.</p><p></p><p>Was a great hunt, one I'll remember and appreciate forever, and it didn't even end up with me getting the bird. But now I've got one more piece of the puzzle for that bird. Friday my son is coming home from college. I'm going to put him in the middle of the knoll and I'm going to stay 35y back and call. I think there is a good chance he will be in trouble if he is still in the area!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5875227, member: 2805"] Appreciate every gobble and analyze every hunt for whether it was successful or unsuccessful. Appreciate the fact you can do everything right, and the bird can still win. And that's OK! Yesterday morn I hunted public down here for a bird I've had gobble to me 2 out of 4 prior hunts. He's SUPER vocal... like will gobble back even 500y away. Problem is, he's on the opposite side of a 500y flat swampy bottom that is thick as stink. Like so thick you can only see 10 yards, and if you sit in it, you can't even swing your barrel without hitting wild rhododendron branches if he flanks. Last Sunday, he didn't answer me, so I pushed into the middle of that bottom and actually found a little knoll that's about 30y wide and 100y long that is a bit more open. Scratching in leaves there. Perfect place to kill him. I set up there yest morn, and he gave me a single gobble from 350y away. About 30m later, he answered a call from 200y away. 20 min later, he free gobbled from 100y away. Flipped the safety off as this bird was already dead. But nope, he came out 75y away on the other side of the knoll and stood there for 45 minutes free gobbling over 30 times. I called a couple times as soft as I could, not even sure he heard. Scratched leaves, purred, etc. Just couldn't get him to budge in 30y more for the kill. Finally a real hen came up and they headed off together. Was a great hunt, one I'll remember and appreciate forever, and it didn't even end up with me getting the bird. But now I've got one more piece of the puzzle for that bird. Friday my son is coming home from college. I'm going to put him in the middle of the knoll and I'm going to stay 35y back and call. I think there is a good chance he will be in trouble if he is still in the area! [/QUOTE]
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