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Needing Input and Suggestions on a setup for opening morning...

Started by Leadbelt, April 09, 2013, 05:57:26 PM

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Leadbelt

Well ive done some hard scouting the past two weekends here in Missouri for the hopes of wrappin my tag around ones leg opening day. Well, after spending two weekends glassin a field  from the distance, I had located a field  holding 17 hens and 5 Strutters. I went and found me a location to put my blind until today, when another hunter of the farm had called and informed me he was putting his blind, where I had intended to put mine! Ercs me, because this guy does no scouting... Just shows up and hunts... Any ways, I know where the hens are roosting and I know where the gobblers are roosting. The birds usually from what I see meet in the middle of the field and strut down to the creek crossing where the other hunter is now putting his blind. So here is what im considering, and yes I know its a "D" head thing to do, but this is the only field ive located birds in on the farm, and im the one who has been doing all the scouting. Im thinkin about bumping my blind up about 120 from the other hunters and closer to the gobblers roost. There for ill be cutting the birds off before they get to the hens. However if the birds are pitching off the roost into the field, they will prolly fly over my setup and out of range into the field. I wish I knew wether or not the birds were landing in the timber and walking out into the fields, or if they were pitchin out into the fields. Anyways here is a pic of my setup that im planning now. What do you guys honestly think?

Gamblinman

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VaTuRkStOmPeR

You guys and your blinds crack me up.

Sounds like a damn bad game of monopoly....

I'd be mobile try and kill em at flydown and if that didn't work I'd watch where the flock headed and cut em off using terrain and that timber to my advantage.

heathwesley

Quote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on April 10, 2013, 10:55:12 PM
You guys and your blinds crack me up.

Sounds like a damn bad game of monopoly....

I'd be mobile try and kill em at flydown and if that didn't work I'd watch where the flock headed and cut em off using terrain and that timber to my advantage.

Agreed!! 

Neill_Prater

Well, I seem to recall that "the best layed plans of mice and men often go awry", or something to that effect. IF the birds are roosted in exactly the same location opening day, which is still several days away, then I'd slip into the timber well before daylight between the hens and gobblers and try to kill one before the birds ever go to the field. I've gambled on setting up on a field near a roost area many times through the years. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. Occasionally, like this year in Alabama, when my buddy and I got a double, the birds head straight for the field and the plan works. However, a good percentage of the time, the birds end up staying in the timber and never make it to the field. That happened to me last year here in MO on a field in which I had killed birds the two previous years. For my money, a safer bet would be to try and intercept the birds in the timber, especially considering the other hunter. Good luck.