Calling Gobblers field / Woods

[Greg Massey]

Do you have this place on a farm or public that you just can't seem to CALL a gobbler into that location?   But you see or hear gobblers around this location and you have trail camera pictures of gobblers in that field or woods section, but they just seem to avoid or just want come to calling in that location. I have one field location I've hunted several years and in early season i will have gobblers gobbling around this field, but i just can't seem to get a gobbler to commit and close the distance in this particular location.. I have hens come into this location or my setup, but can't get a gobbler of Jake commit at all.  It's a beautiful area, with plenty of woods,field roads, sand ditches and clover planted in this field and has a nice watering hole for wildlife..  I just don't understand why they don't care for this area during matting season etc.   See turkeys in the field all the time during the summer and winter... Just curious if you have an area like this yourself?

[turkeyhuntermag]

Have you seen pics of coyotes or foxes here? Does anybody else set up in that area? It sounds like that area has provided some bad experiences in the past that educated some of the population at some point in time, possibly still continuing. Gobblers who get ambushed in certain areas receive their master's degrees in avoidance and "over-caution" on an accelerated scale, as you know. While knowing the areas they avoid, try to find out if they are skirting the perimeter of said area and giving it the once-over or whether they just turn and go directly away when they are called to. It's quite the game, but it's satisfying when you finally put one on the ground when playing by their rules.

[Greg Massey]

Have you seen pics of coyotes or foxes here? Does anybody else set up in that area? It sounds like that area has provided some bad experiences in the past that educated some of the population at some point in time, possibly still continuing. Gobblers who get ambushed in certain areas receive their master's degrees in avoidance and "over-caution" on an accelerated scale, as you know. While knowing the areas they avoid, try to find out if they are skirting the perimeter of said area and giving it the once-over or whether they just turn and go directly away when they are called to. It's quite the game, but it's satisfying when you finally put one on the ground when playing by their rules.

This is all on a private farm... this farm is about 1000 ac .. and no one else turkey hunts this farm... it's just strange because all the other areas are active with gobblers... just not this one field during the spring season...

[Dtrkyman]

I guided a farm years ago that had a ridge that was just flat stacked with gobblers, one fall/winter there was a group of 17!

Virtually never could get on a bird up there in the spring, only can remember once for sure.

Also had properties with no birds all fall/winter and were reliable come spring.


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