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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Buster" data-source="post: 1575709" data-attributes="member: 99718"><p>I agree 100% setting up where a known strut zone is or on a trial that he uses to get there is a good first step! I have just sat and watched and listened to the same gobbler several mornings before season already, and sometimes you find them birds that do the same thing every morning ! I have also seen some that very seldom did the same thing twice on different mornings! also if you put them to bed and have a good distance between the hens and the gobbler setting up between them can be good if they don't fly the whole way to one another, I have seen this happen also and sat there and watched and listened to them go the other way ! Again I am not one to take defeat kindly and I have at times been successful getting ahead of them and letting them walk into me! I can tell you know what your doing and that being said I don't have to tell you to never stop thinking, it's amazing the things that I have thought of to counter some of the things they pull ! many times I have thought I knew exactly what they were going to do, only to have them do something totally unexpected, I don't think they even knew they were going to do it ! I have always loved matching wits with them and as far as being smart, they are just being turkeys and get a lot of credit for being smart that is only them using their keen senses and being turkeys ! I do believe they can be spooked from different things and I have shot and missed gobblers and ended up killing them the next day or two! You know what to do ! I will not try to call them to the same location where I spooked one or missed him, but have been quite successful changing the location by a 100 yards and also using a different call than the one I was using when I missed or spooked him ! I am 67 and have hunted them seriously since the mid 70's ! We didn't have face book and all the gadgets of today to learn from, I was in the turkey woods calling many birds in and experimenting with them before season, seeing what I could and couldn't get away with ! The one main thing that will ruin your hunt is movement ! I have actually had birds on top of me that would not leave, I have even thrown stones at them from around a tree where they couldn't see my arm moving ! Had a lot of fun learning, I would call loud and soft and to some birds it didn't matter and others if I called too loud they just quite responding. I have never hunted any other state for anything, only my home state of PA ! There were some instructional tapes out back when I started and the one guy I had a lot of respect for and have met was Ben Rogers Lee ! He said there are turkeys that NO ONE will ever kill ! He told me a story about being invited to hunt a place that had a legendary gobbler that no one could kill, long story short they set Ben up on this bird and when they left so did ben he said he drove down the road a couple miles and called a nice gobbler in and killed it and rushed back and waited for the other hunters, he said if they haven't been able to kill he probably wouldn't be able to either ! When the hunters joined up around noon Ben said he was congratulated on being able to kill the unkillable bird in that area! We both had a good laugh over that story ! He was a very comical guy !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Buster, post: 1575709, member: 99718"] I agree 100% setting up where a known strut zone is or on a trial that he uses to get there is a good first step! I have just sat and watched and listened to the same gobbler several mornings before season already, and sometimes you find them birds that do the same thing every morning ! I have also seen some that very seldom did the same thing twice on different mornings! also if you put them to bed and have a good distance between the hens and the gobbler setting up between them can be good if they don't fly the whole way to one another, I have seen this happen also and sat there and watched and listened to them go the other way ! Again I am not one to take defeat kindly and I have at times been successful getting ahead of them and letting them walk into me! I can tell you know what your doing and that being said I don't have to tell you to never stop thinking, it's amazing the things that I have thought of to counter some of the things they pull ! many times I have thought I knew exactly what they were going to do, only to have them do something totally unexpected, I don't think they even knew they were going to do it ! I have always loved matching wits with them and as far as being smart, they are just being turkeys and get a lot of credit for being smart that is only them using their keen senses and being turkeys ! I do believe they can be spooked from different things and I have shot and missed gobblers and ended up killing them the next day or two! You know what to do ! I will not try to call them to the same location where I spooked one or missed him, but have been quite successful changing the location by a 100 yards and also using a different call than the one I was using when I missed or spooked him ! I am 67 and have hunted them seriously since the mid 70's ! We didn't have face book and all the gadgets of today to learn from, I was in the turkey woods calling many birds in and experimenting with them before season, seeing what I could and couldn't get away with ! The one main thing that will ruin your hunt is movement ! I have actually had birds on top of me that would not leave, I have even thrown stones at them from around a tree where they couldn't see my arm moving ! Had a lot of fun learning, I would call loud and soft and to some birds it didn't matter and others if I called too loud they just quite responding. I have never hunted any other state for anything, only my home state of PA ! There were some instructional tapes out back when I started and the one guy I had a lot of respect for and have met was Ben Rogers Lee ! He said there are turkeys that NO ONE will ever kill ! He told me a story about being invited to hunt a place that had a legendary gobbler that no one could kill, long story short they set Ben up on this bird and when they left so did ben he said he drove down the road a couple miles and called a nice gobbler in and killed it and rushed back and waited for the other hunters, he said if they haven't been able to kill he probably wouldn't be able to either ! When the hunters joined up around noon Ben said he was congratulated on being able to kill the unkillable bird in that area! We both had a good laugh over that story ! He was a very comical guy ! [/QUOTE]
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