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300wby

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Took my stepson on the juvy last weekend. We are learning turkey hunting together and loving it. Got in a little after daybreak, could hear turkeys in trees where we were planning in going, told stepson we would just set where we would ease away from them so we didnt spook them and return in about an hour. Came easing back after an hour and coming around old logging road and had made no calls of any kind. I look up three flats and see a fan. We just hunker down against a tree and I put hen decoy in road. We setup and I cluck softly and he gobbles back. We wait about 30 minutes and I see turkeys coming down mountain. The gobbler is in front and a hen is following him. He is coming straight towards decoy. About 10 feet from being dead the hen turn and goes back around mountain. The tom turns and follows. He gobbles hard for about 30 more minutes just out of sight. I cluck a couple more timex and I hear a very loud purring. I purr back and he gobbles and then more loud purring. They eventually go away from us. Was that the hen purring that loud like she was wanting to run the other hen (me) off?


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Sounds like a fighting purr. A content purr is quiet and short. Could be there was another hen fighting with her, or she was talking back to your calls telling you not to mess with her. The first turkey I ever killed was a jake that followed a hen that came running to my cluck and purr, which probably sounded like a challenge to the hen. I don't hardly use those calls anymore, as clucks and yelps often do the trick for a responsive gobbler.

It sounds like the decoy may have messed your hunt up, but there's no telling for sure. I guess that's just turkey hunting, they always throw you for a loop. The gobbler was probably gobbling hard afterwards to get you to follow him, but he wasn't going to leave the hen he already had. Maybe you will catch him another day, without any hens.
 
Thanks, and I hope your right. I have clucked and purred and heard it done by man and turkey. This was so much louder.


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