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<blockquote data-quote="Spurhunter" data-source="post: 5071059" data-attributes="member: 5695"><p>I sorta roosted a bird Thursday afternoon in MS. I didn't know exactly where he was but I knew the area he was headed when he last gobbled pretty late. When he gobbles Friday morning he's on a ridge next to the property line. I'm in a bottom the turkeys like, just below him, 100 yards away. By the time he gobbles it's too light, too open, and the leaves are too dry and loud to move up the ridge. I try calling. I try extended periods of silence. I just know he's coming eventually and I'm in a good spot, so I stay put. Patience kills turkeys, right? He stays on that ridge until 9:45 gobbling at me when I call and gobbling when he doesn't hear from me for a while. But he won't budge. The whole morning it seems his feet are stuck in concrete. Finally he drifts off into the cutover across the line and goes directly away from me. I never heard a hen and I'm pretty sure he was alone. Another reason I just knew he was coming. If I had it to do over again I would've made a big loop and got up on the ridge with him, but that's easy to say now. Had I tried that and bumped him I would've been mad at myself for not being patient. How would you certified turkey killers handle that situation? I seriously want opinions on what I should've done. But keep in mind, I'm not hunting a place where you bump a bird and you just move on to the next one. I have limited acreage and there isn't a ton of turkeys there. If you hear a couple birds gobbling on the roost it's a good day. It's that kind of place. Bumping a bird will end your day pretty quick.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spurhunter, post: 5071059, member: 5695"] I sorta roosted a bird Thursday afternoon in MS. I didn't know exactly where he was but I knew the area he was headed when he last gobbled pretty late. When he gobbles Friday morning he's on a ridge next to the property line. I'm in a bottom the turkeys like, just below him, 100 yards away. By the time he gobbles it's too light, too open, and the leaves are too dry and loud to move up the ridge. I try calling. I try extended periods of silence. I just know he's coming eventually and I'm in a good spot, so I stay put. Patience kills turkeys, right? He stays on that ridge until 9:45 gobbling at me when I call and gobbling when he doesn't hear from me for a while. But he won't budge. The whole morning it seems his feet are stuck in concrete. Finally he drifts off into the cutover across the line and goes directly away from me. I never heard a hen and I'm pretty sure he was alone. Another reason I just knew he was coming. If I had it to do over again I would've made a big loop and got up on the ridge with him, but that's easy to say now. Had I tried that and bumped him I would've been mad at myself for not being patient. How would you certified turkey killers handle that situation? I seriously want opinions on what I should've done. But keep in mind, I'm not hunting a place where you bump a bird and you just move on to the next one. I have limited acreage and there isn't a ton of turkeys there. If you hear a couple birds gobbling on the roost it's a good day. It's that kind of place. Bumping a bird will end your day pretty quick. [/QUOTE]
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