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hickslawns

hickslawns

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I look forward to seeing how aholdren and his mom do every year. What a cool experience! Congrats to you both.

I really need to get out and after them. I have been slammed with work though. Good luck to you all.
 
bowhunter1023

bowhunter1023

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Much different morning today. Only heard 25-30 gobbles. The birds were roosted with hens today and on the opposite ridge point a good 400 yards from our farm. Once they hit the ground, the clouds opened up and they shut up. Decided to head to work. I'm taking a buddy out this weekend, so hopefully we have some action like Monday morning.
 
rsmith

rsmith

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Well I know where I'm going tomorrow, had 2 Toms strutting there stuff in the back yard in the food plot. Very cool to see, hopefully they roost close so they will come back around again and check out the decoys and get a nice arrow through the heart. strutting.jpg
 
rsmith

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It's a out 30 degrees here in Geauga county and coolest thing happened this morning. I made my way in, set up my decoys and went back to my makeshift blind. All of a sudden 3 hens come running towards me, fly up above me and roost literally right above me. They were there for about 20 minutes then flew down and started scratching around for about 10 min than wondered off. Very cool experience they were probably arms length away when they first flew down and didn't suspect a thing
 
Jackalope

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Alex and I smacked another one this morning. Four people hundred this bird Monday and Tuesday pressuring the hell out of it. Thing is they stayed back in the field and called to him some 200 yards away. They didn't want to get back in those thick woods that's mostly honey sucker and locust. The bird didn't want to go to that field.

We had a pretty good idea where he roosted. This morning we beat the trucks there and slipped off in the woods about 5:30. We got to within 150 yards of where we thought he was roosting and waited for that first tree gobble. About 6:15 he let one out. That's your ass I said as we moved in on him and closed the distance to about 70 yards. It's so thick in there a 20 yard shot is all you'll get if you're lucky. Knowing that and know this bird will likely be call shy we decided to play the old cat and mouse tactic. Split up about 50 yards apart and cover more ground. We picked our trees and made sure we knew where the other one was. While the bird was still roosted Alex and I got in a bitchy hen fight. Very light at first then increasing in aggravation with clucks and cutting off each others yelps. Drove that tom nuts. After a while we realize the Tom preferred the sound of my call more so Alex slacked off on his calling and took the submissive hen role. About this time the bird pinched off the roost towards my left and Alex's 10 o'clock. After the bird hit the ground I did not yelp anymore except once with a very low string of 3 yelps. Mostly just clucks and purrs. Alex shut up completely as he knew the bird was close. I kept social calling lightly. The bird was coming in pretty silent to my calling from my 9:00 and passed in front of Alex at about 20 yards. BOOM! 6:45 bird down. Turns out that it was a jake. Fooled us as the bird had a full chuckle and a bright head. All in all it was a textbook tag team tactic on a pressured bird.

4 hunts / 2 birds / 1 miss. Which is a pretty good track record for a county that may kill 15 birds a year.


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PA Bandit

PA Bandit

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I will say this is the first year I have ever had this problem but there is actually to many birds that it is difficult to get setup and/or call anything......but after a miss on a hog of Tom on Tuesday and the battle to make it to work by 8 AM I was finally able to get it done. Will have in the harvest report section later today. Little disappointed as I thought he was bigger but in the end its one more on the ground so always smiling after that.

First Ohio bird to :D

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