We were set up in Missouri watching three longbeards strutting around some hens. They suddenly broke strut and beelined it away from the hens. We soon saw where they were headed. They went at it for almost 15 minutes! Pretty cool to watch!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QpvqLW2xWcI
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Dang. That's allot of beards and spurs rite there
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Haha wow! Great stuff!
That is one of the coolest things in nature I've ever seen !!! Awesome
That is Awesome
Very Cool!!!!
That's was a heck of a show! Did any of the winners or losers ever come close enough for a shot?
Pretty neat.
Very cool - I once saw two groups of about six jakes each do the same thing for several minutes. Then they all made friends and wandered off together!
pretty cool
Quote from: dublelung on May 08, 2018, 04:19:32 PM
That's was a heck of a show! Did any of the winners or losers ever come close enough for a shot?
Not on this particular "session". The three original birds were ran off by the new foursome. Then they wandered off with the original boy's hens. Later that day and for the next two days they came back. One group of four came in which I think were the bullies. Now there's only three bullies. We both tagged out. This is a great spot for sure.
Awesome stuff. Thanks for sharing it.
Great video. Thank you sharing it
Agreed... that was REALLY COOL! Thanks!
Holy cow batman
AWESOME thanks for sharing.....
At the risk of being branded a liar... Three years ago I was running 2 bird dogs in central VA quail hunting in December and kept hearing a weird noise in some mature pines that had recently been burned. At first I thought it was someone grading a gravel road but there was no road in that direction. I walked up the edge of a 3 year old cutover and the mature burned pines towards the noise and both dogs who were wearing beeper collars came back to heal. Both of these dogs are 400-600 yard dogs and are very bold. They walked with me at heal with both beeper collars going over a hill and there were 20-30 gobblers of all sizes in the mature pines fighting just like your video. I walked close enough to have killed several birds before they flushed. When they did flush some set in trees close enough to kill. Remember that this is all in the company of two setters with beeper collars beeping every second. Went back to the same area the first day of spring season the following spring and did not hear a peep!!
This is worth a bump....better than National Geographic. Just awesome sparring and trash talking!
Only family bickers and scraps like that - they gotta all be related.
Thanks for sharing! That is a very cool video
I enjoyed watching that. Appreciate you sharing it!
Sweet video!!!
X1000 Thanks for sharing. I'd love to see it live.
Great Vid :icon_thumright:
Very cool video!
Where you able to take a bird out of that pack??? Seems like that would have been a good scenario to gobble at them, or for some "fighting-purrs," or both... Those birds were "worked up" for sure...
Quote from: Marc on May 10, 2018, 08:33:17 PM
Very cool video!
Where you able to take a bird out of that pack??? Seems like that would have been a good scenario to gobble at them, or for some "fighting-purrs," or both... Those birds were "worked up" for sure...
These birds were only interested in each other for some reason. We tried doing aggressive fighting purrs, etc. and they would gobble but once the winning group cleared the field they took their hens away. It all ended good because we had different birds come back later and we tagged out with 4 birds in 3 days.
I've never seen turkeys fight.Thats really cool.I have seen pheasant fight, and geese are always chasing each other around for some reason in the spring.