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Not sure what's going on around Clark but Alex and I went out hunting both mornings this weekend.. Sat morning we went to an area where there have been two toms.. No roost gobbles, nothing.. We did a little run and gun and came across a Hen who responded.. We sat and called at her in a pissing match for 20 min or so.. Not a gobble.. She must have been on a nest as she never moved. But if there was a tom anywhere he would have gobbled even if his mouth was glued shut..
Sunday morning we went to a new spot we hadn't hunted yet.. Virgin ground. Again, not a single roost gobble.. Again we managed to get three hens fired up. One of them more than the others.. After about 10 min or so she flew to the field pissed as holy hell.. She yelped, purred and cut up a storm. Alex and I was calling right back at her.. She walked in to about 15 feet and walked back and forth looking in the woods for that bitch hen.. Then it happened. She gobbled.. It sounds like a really fast cutting / yelp Just like a tom but without the chuckle.. I thought "No Way" then looked over at her and she threw her head out straight like a tom and gobbled again... The best part is we have it on film. I was trying to run the camera and a slate I was behind and to the side of alex and was trying to get her in his lap.. Closest she got was about 10 feet.
If anything it's very good for calling help to hear what she sounds like. . Not so much what alex was doing as he was just making yelping sounds with his mouth. lmao He didn't have his diaphragm in when she flew to the field and couldn't run the slate with her that close.
here is the video.
[video=youtube;9LCxd1wjCQk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LCxd1wjCQk[/video]
Anyways. Back on topic.. That hen was super receptive.. Not a Tom around.. We even did some run and gun until about 10 and couldn't get a single gobble. Seems the toms have just quit.
Sunday morning we went to a new spot we hadn't hunted yet.. Virgin ground. Again, not a single roost gobble.. Again we managed to get three hens fired up. One of them more than the others.. After about 10 min or so she flew to the field pissed as holy hell.. She yelped, purred and cut up a storm. Alex and I was calling right back at her.. She walked in to about 15 feet and walked back and forth looking in the woods for that bitch hen.. Then it happened. She gobbled.. It sounds like a really fast cutting / yelp Just like a tom but without the chuckle.. I thought "No Way" then looked over at her and she threw her head out straight like a tom and gobbled again... The best part is we have it on film. I was trying to run the camera and a slate I was behind and to the side of alex and was trying to get her in his lap.. Closest she got was about 10 feet.
If anything it's very good for calling help to hear what she sounds like. . Not so much what alex was doing as he was just making yelping sounds with his mouth. lmao He didn't have his diaphragm in when she flew to the field and couldn't run the slate with her that close.
here is the video.
[video=youtube;9LCxd1wjCQk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LCxd1wjCQk[/video]
Anyways. Back on topic.. That hen was super receptive.. Not a Tom around.. We even did some run and gun until about 10 and couldn't get a single gobble. Seems the toms have just quit.
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