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Opening day for me started off dang quiet. One bird was lighting it up roughly 100 miles away while the mountain side I was on was silent. I was hunting with one of my long time cohorts so we formulated a plan. We'd ease out to a point which allows us to hear the entire area and just wait one out silenty (napping) until he revealed his location.

Right before we reached our nap spot I made a series of calls, nothing too aggressive just enough to check the area. Zero response. We had about 50 yards to go to the spot and while crunching through dry leaves I barely caught a single cluck down the mountain. With the woods so open we sat down right there as it was hard to pinpoint the location. I made another call and got zero response. After a few minutes I swore I picked up a spit down below us. Another call revealed silence again. However I definitely heard a spit. With that I cut and was greeted with a booming gobble. In a matter of minutes the deafening sound of drumming was creeping closer, then feet in leaves. After another few minutes the woods below at 40 yards began to fill with turkeys, 20 or so hens and 5 strutters. When they crossed the 30 yard line I gave the kill em command and we rolled the two lead strutters. Massive birds body wise and each were probably 22 ish pounds and both had matching 1 1/8" spurs with 10 " beards.
 

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Wow man, great hunt. Hard to believe that all of those birds were that quiet.

I bet that was a rush when the army suddenly appeared!
 
Nice, congrats! Were you within earshot of where they roosted and they didnt gobble on roost? Or were they out of earshot? I can't imagine 5 Tom's in a wad wouldn't gobble once on roost.

Seems like birds are well behind this year where I'm at... it's feast or famine with large flocks that havent finished breaking up. I've only managed to locate 1 bird on all my other farms since this morning. But another of my farms devoid of any turkeys has a group of 30 1 mile down the road. They need to split up fast and a couple need to come my way!

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megalomaniac":mrfjj5rk said:
Nice, congrats! Were you within earshot of where they roosted and they didnt gobble on roost? Or were they out of earshot? I can't imagine 5 Tom's in a wad wouldn't gobble once on roost.

Seems like birds are well behind this year where I'm at... it's feast or famine with large flocks that havent finished breaking up. I've only managed to locate 1 bird on all my other farms since this morning. But another of my farms devoid of any turkeys has a group of 30 1 mile down the road. They need to split up fast and a couple need to come my way!

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I'd say we were within a few hundred yards of them and I am still in shock none of them gobbled. It was a nice morning. Numbers seem way down in general considering the silent two days we've had.
 
Setterman":1b2qz5py said:
megalomaniac":1b2qz5py said:
Nice, congrats! Were you within earshot of where they roosted and they didnt gobble on roost? Or were they out of earshot? I can't imagine 5 Tom's in a wad wouldn't gobble once on roost.

Seems like birds are well behind this year where I'm at... it's feast or famine with large flocks that havent finished breaking up. I've only managed to locate 1 bird on all my other farms since this morning. But another of my farms devoid of any turkeys has a group of 30 1 mile down the road. They need to split up fast and a couple need to come my way!

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I'd say we were within a few hundred yards of them and I am still in shock none of them gobbled. It was a nice morning. Numbers seem way down in general considering the silent two days we've had.
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Congrats!

It's funny you think numbers are way down after killing two birds out of five in the group just because they were not gobbling.
 
bobbuck":20omqwsn said:
Setterman":20omqwsn said:
megalomaniac":20omqwsn said:
Nice, congrats! Were you within earshot of where they roosted and they didnt gobble on roost? Or were they out of earshot? I can't imagine 5 Tom's in a wad wouldn't gobble once on roost.

Seems like birds are well behind this year where I'm at... it's feast or famine with large flocks that havent finished breaking up. I've only managed to locate 1 bird on all my other farms since this morning. But another of my farms devoid of any turkeys has a group of 30 1 mile down the road. They need to split up fast and a couple need to come my way!

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I'd say we were within a few hundred yards of them and I am still in shock none of them gobbled. It was a nice morning. Numbers seem way down in general considering the silent two days we've had.
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Congrats!

It's funny you think numbers are way down after killing two birds out of five in the group just because they were not gobbling.
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I know it's seems weird, but this area I've hunted for 15 years. It's not the silence it's tbe lack of tracks, sign etc. 6 years ago there'd be 5 groups like this and because of that there'd be gobbling somewhere close which would set off others. I don't know how to sum it up, but I just know there's not nearly as many birds in that area.
 
Way to be on high alert walking through the leaves! Most hunters probably would not have known there were birds in the area until they stumbled on the flock and busted them.

I didn't hear much gobbling either. I'd agree it seems like they are behind. I've also seen a lot more jakes this year compared to last year. It always gets trickier when jakes are cruising around in big groups.


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Congrats Setterman!! Did the ol Dawkins aluminum and tulipwood striker get to play the game? Same for me this weekend gobbling has been non existent and I think I could of heard one three county's away plenty of scratching and sign though
 
Awesome, congrats! I really want to double like that with my son. I thought it might happen this evening as we called three to 80 yards but lost interest after not seeing the hen.
 
Newt":102a7ljq said:
Congrats Setterman!! Did the ol Dawkins aluminum and tulipwood striker get to play the game? Same for me this weekend gobbling has been non existent and I think I could of heard one three county's away plenty of scratching and sign though
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I was actually using one of String Musics calls that's aluminum.
 
TN Larry":1t3vt5h5 said:
Awesome, congrats! I really want to double like that with my son. I thought it might happen this evening as we called three to 80 yards but lost interest after not seeing the hen.
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It's not that easy to time the shots, it seems it always gets a little nuts and not as smooth as you'd hope. It's fun and cool when it works though
 

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