Turkey Season LIVE! - 2022 Edition

[ThatBuckeyeGuy]

I got this MF’er at the back of the field…he will answer my calls and is strutting but won’t come to the decoys!
Now he’s got a real hen working over toward him.

Grab some feathers , put your knife in your mouth and start crawling towards him. It's showtime!

 

[Sgt Fury]

Well, he screwed me. Played with him from sun up until quitting time at noon. Had him at 60-70 yards twice in the last hour but that’s a lot to ask from a 20 gauge. He’s decoy shy or a homo. He don’t like the ladies! He was the only gobbler I heard all day…no others in the distance.

 

[Bighoun52]

Brother in law smacked one in the face this morning. Fun fun hunt. Lots of gobbling. Big boys had the hens and this one came in hard and fast

 

[Spencie]

At least something good has come out of this slow turkey season.

 

[JARHEAD]

Bacon wrapped chicken breasts!

 

[Spencie]

Bacon wrapped chicken breasts!

Haha. Nope but had to go to North Carolina to get it.

 

[Sgt Fury]

Gonna try something different tomorrow….putting out a full strut decoy and use a gobbler call. I don’t like to do it because of safety reasons but the only trespassers so far are not hunters, so I’m going to go for it. Gotta try something as this gobbler will not come to the hen decoys.

 

[Sgt Fury]

Worst start so far…one lone gobbler at the very far end of the swamp this morning…so far that I could barely hear him. Came in to the woods during a downpour and didn’t have my raincoat in the truck…got soaked. Temps were in the mid to upper 40’s so I froze my butt off for a few hours. Had a small buck twenty yards from the blind. That’s the only excitement so far. May call it a day in another hour or so.

 

[brock ratcliff]

I had a little buddy in the blind this morning. I suppose he was glad to have a dry spot with the storms we had yesterday. He stayed with me all morning.
Once again, could have killed a gobbler if I took a gun instead of this stupid recurve. That is 8 or 9 now in six hunts. I’m sure I’m seeing the same birds repeatedly. And I’m sure I hate decoys. When they work they are amazing. Unfortunately, 9 times out of ten, the birds will skirt around them as is shown in the attached picture. This dude was coming on a string, until he saw the decoys.
Back at it w the bow in the morning. I’m heading down to hunt with Mason on Saturday. He will be coming home for the summer when we are done hunting.

 

[Sgt Fury]

I got out at 11:30…bastards were still gobbling but didn’t move all day. They were 300 yards away and must’ve been set up in a strut zone with plenty of ladies. Tomorrow’s another day.

 

[Sgt Fury]

I have buzzard luck! Had the Tom gobbling 100 yards behind me since daybreak. Hen comes in and is very vocal. We chat and the Tom is going nuts. He gets about 40-50 yards behind me and I’m thinking “he has to be able to see the strutting Tom decoy by now”. I was right…he must’ve seen it because the pussy left the area. Next gobble I hear is about 150 yards away. Tomorrow is the last day for my permit and I’m not going to use a single decoy!

 

[Spencie]

Good quick hunt with Tyler. He had Maverick at 57 yards. Goose at 60. Maverick gobbled about a dozen times on the limb. Nothing on the ground. Never strutted. Picked up a hen and went over the hill. We never called…. These 2 are ambush only.

 

[Sgt Fury]

Just heard him again…200 yards and it’s possible he crossed the creek. He has a very distinctive gobble so I know it’s the same one that’s been screwing me all week. I’ve never seen a Tom that was so decoy shy. Going to an auction this afternoon so I may call it quits for today. Don’t want to waste any more time. Hopefully he roosts the usual spot and tomorrow I’ll try to ambush him. Cock sucker!

 

[brock ratcliff]

My decoys are all in a pile in front of me...inside the blind.
I haven’t heard a single bird yet. I haven’t seen one. Mason only heard two gobbles this morning and quit early. I’ve got a delivery truck coming this morning so I’ll have to quit early too. I can’t say I’m disappointed about that.

 

[Big_Holla]

I have buzzard luck! Had the Tom gobbling 100 yards behind me since daybreak. Hen comes in and is very vocal. We chat and the Tom is going nuts. He gets about 40-50 yards behind me and I’m thinking “he has to be able to see the strutting Tom decoy by now”. I was right…he must’ve seen it because the pussy left the area. Next gobble I hear is about 150 yards away. Tomorrow is the last day for my permit and I’m not going to use a single decoy!

Perhaps try a call you haven’t used yet on him tomorrow. That or just scratch leaves and cluck/purr once in a while. Give him something he hasn’t experienced in the last several days. Including silence if need be.

 

[Spencie]

Just heard him again…200 yards and it’s possible he crossed the creek. He has a very distinctive gobble so I know it’s the same one that’s been screwing me all week. I’ve never seen a Tom that was so decoy shy. Going to an auction this afternoon so I may call it quits for today. Don’t want to waste any more time. Hopefully he roosts the usual spot and tomorrow I’ll try to ambush him. Cock sucker!

Can you set up somewhere other than the blind? Get where he wants to be not where you want him to be.

 

[Sgt Fury]

The blind is in a spot that they normally travel to get from the roosting spot to the fields…it’s in a pinch point between a nasty green briar thicket and a swamp. They will go through the swamp if they see something that they don’t like. Tomorrow I’m going to set up without any decoys and not call unless that talkative hen comes back….otherwise, I’ll just sit and wait for him to walk by.

 

[Big_Holla]

Put the decoys in the swamp and sit in the blind where it’s at LOL!

 

[giles]

Hes watched you...nothing to do with the decoys.

 

[brock ratcliff]

Hes watched you...nothing to do with the decoys.

You give turkeys way too much credit. They are the dumbest animal in the woods. They rely on dumb luck for survival, and really good eyesight.