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Reasons?

Started by guesswho, December 05, 2011, 08:00:57 PM

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guesswho

It's getting closer to turkey season and my mind is starting to come out of hibernation.  

I hear every year about gobblers that hang up.  In your opinion what are some of the reasons they hang up?  What would you think the number one reason is?  No right or wrong answers just opinions.  Plus I want to see if anyone is on the same train as me.
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CASH

I think they hang up because we aren't doing something right.
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bird

They hang up on you cuz they can.
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chatterbox

Terrain features maybe, or they just don't feel comfortable going where you want them to go.

Crappiepro

Well I think the reason they hung up on me last year was because the boy that lives across the road from the property I hunt was standing on the porch aweek before season callin the birds in the field LOL. I would tend to agree with the above statement too. Maybe we aren't doin something right!

unclerick

Well personely I think the biggest reason for hang ups is the strut, a bird gets so fired up he starts struting and thats all he can remember he's suppose to do. My reason for this thinking is the fact that I've noticed the less I can make a gobbler strut the more likely he's going to come straight in gobbling his head off.
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GOLD HUNTER

The caller don't sound or call like a turkey...... :icon_thumright:

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sugarray

I think it is because he doesn't see that hen he hears.  I think there are very few situations in the wild where he doesn't see that hen because she is moving around all the time, not just sitting and calling.


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Tail Feathers

I agree with sugarray.  I think a lack of movement from the calling hen is a likely culprit.

Plus "they just don't want to". :D
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drenalinld

Quote from: TRKYHTR on December 05, 2011, 09:02:02 PM
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TRKYHTR
Agreed. The biggest reason they hang up is real hens. 2nd biggest can't see the hen doing the calling.

Duke0002

Quote from: TRKYHTR on December 05, 2011, 09:02:02 PM
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TRKYHTR

Ditto.  If he's got enough hens coming to visit him, he has no need to go looking for love elsewhere.    

Even when hens finish coming to him during the morning in his strut area, and he leaves his strut area in response to our calling, he's still used to having the females come to him.  

IMO, he'll keep a safe/comfortable (to him) buffer distance between our calling and our statue-like decoys.  

guesswho

So far we have

1. Were not doing something right.
2. Because they can
3. People calling to them before the season
4. Terrain or they just don't want to go where we want them to.
5. Callers calling doesn't sound real.
6. They don't see the hens, or no movement from the hens.
7. Real hens, either he won't leave what he has or real hens inercepted him before getting to your location.
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Dylan T

Quote from: drenalinld on December 05, 2011, 09:08:37 PM
Quote from: TRKYHTR on December 05, 2011, 09:02:02 PM
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TRKYHTR
Agreed. The biggest reason they hang up is real hens. 2nd biggest can't see the hen doing the calling.

Just like humans.

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joshua

Quote from: TRKYHTR on December 05, 2011, 09:02:02 PM
Girlfriends. It's all about the ladies.

TRKYHTR
100% agree. I also think it has something to do with their natural ability to stay alive. He's not gonna just run into a brush pile when he can stand at 100 yds with the best eyesite in the game and survey the situation. Those wonderful 2 year olds will sometimes but those old veterans have probably seen the best us hunters and mother nature could throw at them and then some.
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