Stayinthewoods
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I've got a bird that has been roosting fairly consistently over the course of the last week and a half/two weeks. He's either roosting in what we'll call Spot A or Spot B over during this time frame. Spot A is where he has been roosting roughly 65% of the time.
I catch a break in my schedule and find time Monday afternoon to go after him. I set up right where I've heard him gobbling in the morning as I'm leaving for work most of the time in Spot A. I'm able to slip in quietly. I'm at the peak of a ridge top with a field down below. I'm calling once every 15-20 minutes. About 45 minutes before sunset I reach for my call beside me and I hear a sharp cluck and freeze. I know a turkey has seen me. This turns into a series of "I'm leaving town" clucks. So I slowly turn to get a glimpse. It's the gobbler already roosted up in a tree, 40 yards behind me. In all my years of turkey hunting, I've never noticed a turkey fly up near me and not hear it. I never heard wings or limbs shaking/breaking as it flew up. It was just there all the sudden.
He flew off, hugging the edge of the field towards my house. Since then I haven't heard him a single time before I leave for work. I feel like he's still around in the general area, but I want your input. I'll be able to go Saturday morning. What would your approach be? This isn't an area that's exactly littered with birds, so I can't just move on to another gobbler. Small tract of land.
I catch a break in my schedule and find time Monday afternoon to go after him. I set up right where I've heard him gobbling in the morning as I'm leaving for work most of the time in Spot A. I'm able to slip in quietly. I'm at the peak of a ridge top with a field down below. I'm calling once every 15-20 minutes. About 45 minutes before sunset I reach for my call beside me and I hear a sharp cluck and freeze. I know a turkey has seen me. This turns into a series of "I'm leaving town" clucks. So I slowly turn to get a glimpse. It's the gobbler already roosted up in a tree, 40 yards behind me. In all my years of turkey hunting, I've never noticed a turkey fly up near me and not hear it. I never heard wings or limbs shaking/breaking as it flew up. It was just there all the sudden.
He flew off, hugging the edge of the field towards my house. Since then I haven't heard him a single time before I leave for work. I feel like he's still around in the general area, but I want your input. I'll be able to go Saturday morning. What would your approach be? This isn't an area that's exactly littered with birds, so I can't just move on to another gobbler. Small tract of land.
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