Ok, I'm standing there opening morning. I hear more than one bird gobble on the limb. One in front of me, a couple off to one side, another one over my shoulder. All of them are about the same distance away. How do I know which one to go after? Should I call and see what happens? What are some of the things I need to consider if anything?
I would just go back home. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Quote from: Flydown on March 01, 2012, 04:27:57 PM
I would just go back home. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
I think Chris is right. Screw it..... Go Home and crawl back in bed with the old lady.
I would just sit down right where you were standing and start calling. :gobble:
Quote from: PaTurkHntr on March 01, 2012, 04:40:29 PM
I would just sit down right where you were standing and start calling. :gobble:
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The biggest one,you can age a bird by the soumd of the gobble, right????????????
Quote from: PaTurkHntr on March 01, 2012, 04:40:29 PM
I would just sit down right where you were standing and start calling. :gobble:
Yep
Quote from: ghillie on March 01, 2012, 04:42:56 PM
Quote from: PaTurkHntr on March 01, 2012, 04:40:29 PM
I would just sit down right where you were standing and start calling. :gobble:
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X 3 See what happens, if they all come then you'll have another thread to post LOL. Titled "Which one do I shoot now" LOL!! :TooFunny:
Call me , I will stay there and wait on them you take Birds advice and I will swing by on the way home and show you which one came in !!! :happy0064: :thanks:
Quote from: hookedspur on March 01, 2012, 05:31:12 PM
Call me , I will stay there and wait on them you take Birds advice and I will swing by on the way home and show you which one came in !!! :happy0064: :thanks:
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LOL!!!!! :TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Quote from: guesswho on March 01, 2012, 04:26:07 PM
Ok, I'm standing there opening morning. I hear more than one bird gobble on the limb. One in front of me, a couple off to one side, another one over my shoulder. All of them are about the same distance away. How do I know which one to go after? Should I call and see what happens? What are some of the things I need to consider if anything?
Consider giving me a call.... :toothy9:
i would love to have a problem like that :TrainWreck1:seriously though if you are in a good position just set up where you are and make sure that you are as hidden as you can be,make a few soft calls,then listen for the most interested bird. focus on him but do not forget the others,if you are in hill country and some of them are above you ,i wouldn't worry much about them(hard to call a turkey down hill) stay focused on birds below or adjacent to you. When they hit the ground give it to them a little then just sit back and wait,may not be long til you are totin one out
Ronnie,
Do you think you'll finally be able to kill a turkey this season after all the "how to" posts you've initiated the past couple months??
Quote from: Flydown on March 01, 2012, 04:27:57 PM
I would just go back home. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
:TooFunny:
Quote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on March 01, 2012, 06:56:12 PM
Ronnie,
Do you think you'll finally be able to kill a turkey this season after all the "how to" posts you've initiated the past couple months??
I'm thinking this just might be my year. I've accumulatated a noggin full of tactics in the last month or so.
Ronnie, it doesn't make any difference which one you go after, because whichever one you choose, it will be the one with the shorter beard, shorter spurs, more hens, and across the creek. :) Neill
Go to the one with the less hens and owls around him ;D
I would know the lay of the land and have scouted the area to know where the turkeys are going to go. Then I would get in between 2 of them in the direction I think they are going to go. Some of those gobblers are going to get together if not all of them. Then I would set up and let the games begin.
TRKYHTR
I wouldn't move. I would wait until they flew down and the dominant bird got with the hens and just call the hens in and the big boy will follow them in like you learned in the last post.
If you aren't stand in somebody's barn yard then trkyhtr is probably right. Although I think like a turkey, quite often I don't know what wild birds are thinking till I get busted. Then they are thinking "O CRAP".
However if you have been there before you should have an educated guess about what direction they will pitch down.
Quote from: Shotgun on March 01, 2012, 08:00:02 PM
Go to the one with the less hens and owls around him ;D
Makes sense to me, so that should worry you. ;D
Quote from: Timber Chicken on March 01, 2012, 08:02:08 PM
I wouldn't move. I would wait until they flew down and the dominant bird got with the hens and just call the hens in and the big boy will follow them in like you learned in the last post.
It all looks good on paper. It's the application part I have issues with.
Quote from: guesswho on March 01, 2012, 04:26:07 PM
Ok, I'm standing there opening morning. I hear more than one bird gobble on the limb. One in front of me, a couple off to one side, another one over my shoulder. All of them are about the same distance away. How do I know which one to go after? Should I call and see what happens? What are some of the things I need to consider if anything?
If I was you, I would turn and ask your mother, who better be standing at your side, and WHATEVER SHE SAYS........
I'd do it.!!!!
Guaranteed double for that morning!!! :icon_thumright:
God Bless,
David B.
Quote from: BOFF on March 01, 2012, 08:56:47 PM
Quote from: guesswho on March 01, 2012, 04:26:07 PM
Ok, I'm standing there opening morning. I hear more than one bird gobble on the limb. One in front of me, a couple off to one side, another one over my shoulder. All of them are about the same distance away. How do I know which one to go after? Should I call and see what happens? What are some of the things I need to consider if anything?
If I was you, I would turn and ask your mother, who better be standing at your side, and WHATEVER SHE SAYS........
I'd do it.!!!!
Guaranteed double for that morning!!! :icon_thumright:
God Bless,
David B.
Good plan!
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Makes sense to me, so that should worry you. ;D
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Dang I knew I was doomed.
Ask your gay Jake decoy which one sounds the hottest. If that dont work, refer to page 764 of the Guesswho book of OG secrets and tactics.
This is good stuff.
In your case go back through all of the old posts and your questions, the answer is there somewhere I think?
:newmascot:
Where is Chuch Norris when you need him? He is the only one that can answer Ronnie's questions
Phone a friend. ;)
Quote from: PaTurkHntr on March 01, 2012, 04:40:29 PM
I would just sit down right where you were standing and start calling. :gobble:
:z-winnersmiley:
So basicaly your surounded. I would throw my voice like a ventriolquist so they look the other way and RUN. It may be the only safe option.
Go home, sit down and call, call a friend, throw my voice like a ventriolquist and run, call to the hens. I'm screwed. I hope I don't hear any, that should make it simpler.
Quote from: guesswho on March 02, 2012, 11:52:40 AM
Go home, sit down and call, call a friend, throw my voice like a ventriolquist and run, call to the hens. I'm screwed. I hope I don't hear any, that should make it simpler.
Main thing to remember is,,,,,,, NEVER GIVE UP !!!!!! :anim_25:
Quote from: guesswho on March 02, 2012, 11:52:40 AM
Go home, sit down and call, call a friend, throw my voice like a ventriolquist and run, call to the hens. I'm screwed. I hope I don't hear any, that should make it simpler.
:TooFunny: Im still trying to figure out what a ventriolguist is...That one is above my vocabulary :-\
Quote from: Shotgun on March 02, 2012, 08:47:25 PM
Im still trying to figure out what a ventriolguist is...That one is above my vocabulary :-\
I saw pictures of one I think. If it's what I'm thinking it is I'm not using that tactic. Kind of reminds me of those funny gobblers I keep telling you about.
Sit and listen for a few minutes, then go kill the one that's still gobbling good after he gets on the ground.
Quote from: guesswho on March 02, 2012, 08:56:36 PM
Quote from: Shotgun on March 02, 2012, 08:47:25 PM
Im still trying to figure out what a ventriolguist is...That one is above my vocabulary :-\
I saw pictures of one I think. If it's what I'm thinking it is I'm not using that tactic. Kind of reminds me of those funny gobblers I keep telling you about.
LMAO....Might have to break out the "taint " on them
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: Ronnie, Just get in the middle of those gobbling fools and make one of them jokers famous! Then go back tomorrow and repeat,etc,etc,etc.etc!
Quote from: Shotgun on March 02, 2012, 08:47:25 PM
Quote from: guesswho on March 02, 2012, 11:52:40 AM
Go home, sit down and call, call a friend, throw my voice like a ventriolquist and run, call to the hens. I'm screwed. I hope I don't hear any, that should make it simpler.
:TooFunny: Im still trying to figure out what a ventriolguist is...That one is above my vocabulary :-\
Jeff Dunham......... DotCom.
Quote from: Flydown on March 02, 2012, 09:24:52 PM
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny: Ronnie, Just get in the middle of those gobbling fools and make one of them jokers famous! Then go back tomorrow and repeat,etc,etc,etc.etc!
This may be what I'd try first.
Quote from: guesswho on March 01, 2012, 04:26:07 PM
Ok, I'm standing there opening morning. I hear more than one bird gobble on the limb. One in front of me, a couple off to one side, another one over my shoulder. All of them are about the same distance away. How do I know which one to go after? Should I call and see what happens? What are some of the things I need to consider if anything?
Sounds like the kind of problem we dream about ! Whatever you do it is a good morning !!
Grab a limb and knock it against a tree, then make a long howling noise.......you might be hearing a sasquatch breeding party :OGani:
Okay if you are not in Pa or the Mark Twain, give a call and go from there...
Quote from: Neill_Prater on March 01, 2012, 07:41:19 PM
Ronnie, it doesn't make any difference which one you go after, because whichever one you choose, it will be the one with the shorter beard, shorter spurs, more hens, and across the creek. :) Neill
That would be my luck!!!
Pull out the squealing hen and bring all running in!! Just down blow it LOL!!
After a lot of thought and deliberation, I've come up with this....
Ronnie, I reccommend you do what you normally do, seems to have worked in your favor more than once in the past.
:fud: :gobble:
HC
I was faced with this exact scenario last opening day.
I didn't kill a one of 'em... :help:
try to sneak to about 75yds and blast one off the limb with some of that stuff from Cabelas.
Quote from: Tail Feathers on March 04, 2012, 09:33:47 PM
I was faced with this exact scenario last opening day.
I didn't kill a one of 'em... :help:
I too had this exact same thing happen, and on the last day about five years ago. One roosted to my left 200 yards, two to the right little less than 200 yards, and two behind me 500+ yards.
Came down to which side of the tree to sit on because the two behind and the two to the right were on their way. I picked the two closest, roosted to the right of me, and lost. The two that were over 500 yards away got there double time and busted me from behind. Couple alarm putts and the woods went quiet. Didn't kill a one of them, either.
Two shooters would have gotten the job done that day, so you got the best advice already -- phone a friend....