Post by featherduster on Apr 29, 2013 7:12:59 GMT -5
Hunted Thursday thru Sunday and once again enjoyed every bit of the season.
We have had a lot of rain and there still has been no farming efforts in my area except the farm I turkey hunted on (my luck).
The farmer came out and worked the ground every morning except Sunday because it was raining.
I used a Jake and hen combo for two days and a hen only for two days and neither setup impressed the birds as they never even gave them a second look.
What did work was a very limited amount of very soft calling.
On Sunday at about 9:00am I had a bird or several birds answer a call and for the next fifty min. it was a game of cat and mouse with calling when 3 long beards stepped out of the woods directly behing my blind and started walking away from my Jake-hen setup, at about 40 yards I downed one of the 3 Toms.
The bird was a two year old that weighed almost 24lbs, had a 10and 7/16's in beard with 19/20 mm spurs.
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We have had a lot of rain and there still has been no farming efforts in my area except the farm I turkey hunted on (my luck).
The farmer came out and worked the ground every morning except Sunday because it was raining.
I used a Jake and hen combo for two days and a hen only for two days and neither setup impressed the birds as they never even gave them a second look.
What did work was a very limited amount of very soft calling.
On Sunday at about 9:00am I had a bird or several birds answer a call and for the next fifty min. it was a game of cat and mouse with calling when 3 long beards stepped out of the woods directly behing my blind and started walking away from my Jake-hen setup, at about 40 yards I downed one of the 3 Toms.
The bird was a two year old that weighed almost 24lbs, had a 10and 7/16's in beard with 19/20 mm spurs.
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