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Thoughts on the 4/15 opener?
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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5614395" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Back up for round 2.</p><p></p><p>BIG difference between opening 4 days and past day and a half... birds have been gobbling great on the roost (one gobbled 50x this morn), but I just can't get them to come closer than 55 yards and commit. Had 4 different set ups on different farms that I was able to call them to about 55 to 70y yesterday, but no closer (other than jakes... they are still rushing in.). I think all the desperate toms are dead, and the ones left are locked tight in on the last few hens that need breeding.</p><p></p><p>I have not heard any afternoon gobbling this trip, but still getting courtesy gobbles up till noon.</p><p></p><p>I've been set up on my nemesis for the past hour, havent made a peep yet. He's 200y away with 3 jakes and 2 hens. No way to advance until the lollygagging flock decides which way they want to wander to. I hunted him 5x last year and could never kill him, despite him always roosting within 100y of the same tree every night. He gobbles only once or twice on the limb, then almost never gobbles on the ground. This is my 6th try for him this year, and he is doing the same thing as last year. He's the one I will punch my last tag on. Spurs are over 1 3/8 in, maybe 1 1/2. To make things even harder, my son whiffed on him and shot right over his head at 25y a few days ago after we belly crawled 75y to get tight to the small flock, so he and the rest of the flock are fairly call shy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5614395, member: 2805"] Back up for round 2. BIG difference between opening 4 days and past day and a half... birds have been gobbling great on the roost (one gobbled 50x this morn), but I just can't get them to come closer than 55 yards and commit. Had 4 different set ups on different farms that I was able to call them to about 55 to 70y yesterday, but no closer (other than jakes... they are still rushing in.). I think all the desperate toms are dead, and the ones left are locked tight in on the last few hens that need breeding. I have not heard any afternoon gobbling this trip, but still getting courtesy gobbles up till noon. I've been set up on my nemesis for the past hour, havent made a peep yet. He's 200y away with 3 jakes and 2 hens. No way to advance until the lollygagging flock decides which way they want to wander to. I hunted him 5x last year and could never kill him, despite him always roosting within 100y of the same tree every night. He gobbles only once or twice on the limb, then almost never gobbles on the ground. This is my 6th try for him this year, and he is doing the same thing as last year. He's the one I will punch my last tag on. Spurs are over 1 3/8 in, maybe 1 1/2. To make things even harder, my son whiffed on him and shot right over his head at 25y a few days ago after we belly crawled 75y to get tight to the small flock, so he and the rest of the flock are fairly call shy. [/QUOTE]
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