2020 Spring Turkey Thread
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Our gang of gobblers roosted on the bordering public land today. We set up where they like to go when roosted there. Heard a gunshot as soon as they hit the ground. Saw the happy hunter toting him out. We waited a spell, moved. Got one going, same stupid bird in the same strut zone we worked yesterday until noon. Left him at 930 because I need to get to work. If I go back in the morning I’ll have a new trick for that bird. He’s on another property where I don’t have permission but he’s gone to the zone the same way two days in a row. God help him if he does that again.
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Been a rough start.. Henned up birds who are stuck to their routine of having the hens come to them.... That's ok.. Time is on our side.
Spencie
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Very slow morning ended up successful. Heard some Jake yelps in the point/ridge across from me. Saw this guy working down the fence line toward me. He turned and started up hollow still on the other side. A few soft yelps on the slate convinced him to come on over. All the big spurred birds running around and I kill a two year old. That’s typical. I’m certain this is the bird that crossed the field earlier with the Jakes. I figured they would be back. My son in law also killed one this morning.
18#
3/4” spurs
9” beard
18#
3/4” spurs
9” beard
Maxxis31
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Turkey hunting this morning social distance style. Gonna roll up like we're in Compton. 
This is fantastic.Turkey hunting this morning social distance style. Gonna roll up like we're in Compton.
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Well I did some scouting tonight and decided not to do it the extra hard way with no experience, calls, decoys or gun. Cant control the experience part and will still take my bow. I’m proficient with a mouth call, and picked up a box and a glass surface (striker? Slate?) striker call. I heard some gobbles and other vocals in a known roosting area tonight at dusk, so I set up decoys in an adjacent field. Trail cam has at least one tom on it late morning in the area, but it is on the fringes so I know there’s more activity than that. We’ll see what tomorrow holds. I have until ~10am.
BlueSpruceOutfitters
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It is cold. Good thing the blind heater is still there. Probably going to freeze. Good luck fellas
BlueSpruceOutfitters
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Had at least two gobbling so far, now they shut up. Sure they have hens. Still really early. Nice AM with heater in the blind
Three gobbling at first light, one within 60 yards on the other side of a knoll. Never came in and they shut up now.
I’m too impatient and aggressive to sit here knowing there are birds in the timber. At least with deer I cant hear where they are.
BlueSpruceOutfitters
Junior Member
Monday was a real disappointment. Had heard and watched a gobbler in the same patch of woods i had success the last two years multiple times last week. He was conspicuously absent. Two hens flew down with no sounds from the roost.
Yesterday, he almost followed the script. Didn't pay any attention to my decoys (maybe the full strut Montana is intimidating). I tried but he was a bit outta range and flew off. Met up with a buddy who'd hit one but he lost it and i didn't improve things. We hunted around together the rest of the morning but we could see them strutting but they were henned up and quiet.
Today in sitting below one of the strutzones from yesterday. 3 hen decoys and a cheap Jake decoy. At about 640 I learned something. 20 gauge 3" #5s through a turkey choke do a number on a coyote at 40 yards. No gobbling yet but they'll make it here eventually. Deer are feeding around me so obviously my shots didn't upset the neighborhood.
Yesterday, he almost followed the script. Didn't pay any attention to my decoys (maybe the full strut Montana is intimidating). I tried but he was a bit outta range and flew off. Met up with a buddy who'd hit one but he lost it and i didn't improve things. We hunted around together the rest of the morning but we could see them strutting but they were henned up and quiet.
Today in sitting below one of the strutzones from yesterday. 3 hen decoys and a cheap Jake decoy. At about 640 I learned something. 20 gauge 3" #5s through a turkey choke do a number on a coyote at 40 yards. No gobbling yet but they'll make it here eventually. Deer are feeding around me so obviously my shots didn't upset the neighborhood.
. I’m listening to a couple different hens play off one another now. Or maybe it’s hunters, who knows lol
I slept in, but woke up to gobbling. Who left the gate open?!? 
One of the neighbors have birds?
lung buster
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Kids and I heard gobbling on the roost then silence when they hit the ground...im going to work...