Out of the box

[BB30]

Turkeys on my brain as we are getting closer to the best time of the year. What are some of the more out of the box things you have done while turkey hunting?

[sixbird]

Showing a wing to a gobbler. Tried to make it look like a hen stretching her wing...He came...

[sixbird]

Showing a wing to a gobbler. Tried to make it look like a hen stretching her wing...He came...

Have actually done that a number of times...

[Kylongspur88]

Busted up birds and called them back in....in the spring.

[SD_smith]

This past season I got to play puppet master. Was on a bald hill and the bird was gobbling on the other side of it. Poked my head over the top and seen him strutting just below. He hadn't moved for a hour or so. Took my hen decoy and held it above my head so he could see it and he started gobbling but wouldn't come. Then took my Jake and mounted him on the hen all above my head the whole time. His head turned red and he came running. Backed down on my knees real quick and the boy 12 year old boy I had with me shot him at about 10 yards. All we seen was his head like over the top and he let him have it.


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[Brad_Colvin]

Used a plastic grocery bag to simulate the sound of leaf scratching.

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[Sir-diealot]

I have a "Wing Thing" I bought back in the late 90's and will beat it against my leg while doing a fly down cackle and then will scratch at the leaves to simulate landing and let out a couple of soft yelps. Have had decent luck doing that.

[Yoder409]

Not sure if it's out of the box or out of the mind, but...........

Was calling a bird for my buddy who was in from outta state.  The bird just wanted to hang up down in a creek bottom.  So I left my buddy's side and crawled about 75 yards up the hill on my belly and lips...............the whole 75 yards was a POISON IVY PATCH............to call from behind.


Long story short.............it worked and my buddy slammed him as he came looking for me.   

[2eagles]

Staying in the box. Ground blind I mean. Now I know some of you guys are gonna give me grief, hunting in a blind with decoys, oh my! I hunt only small pieces of river bottom public land and when it gets tuff, I have sat in my blind from before sunup and finally shot a bird 14 hours later. It is not my favorite way to hunt, but it can work.
And to make people feel better, I have found more land I'll be able to run and gun without decoys and I can't wait.

[Will]

I will sometimes use a goose call to shock gobble birds. One private piece I hunt years ago a pair of low flying geese at daybreak flew by honking like crazy. Birds gobbled their buts off.

[Happy]

I once called one in and killed it. That's pretty abnormal.

[GobbleNut]

I once called one in and killed it. That's pretty abnormal.

[bobk]

I once called one in and killed it. That's pretty abnormal.

GREAT  STUFF

[fmf]

Not sure if it's out of the box or out of the mind, but...........

Was calling a bird for my buddy who was in from outta state.  The bird just wanted to hang up down in a creek bottom.  So I left my buddy's side and crawled about 75 yards up the hill on my belly and lips...............the whole 75 yards was a POISON IVY PATCH............to call from behind.


Long story short.............it worked and my buddy slammed him as he came looking for me.

I crawled through some a few years ago but thought I was ok because I didn't have any exposed skin......it soaked through my clothes and I got the worst case of poison ivy that I've ever had.  I was covered from my chin to my ankles.  I didn't even kill the bird so it was no where near worth it.

[TauntoHawk]

Encountered a bird that liked to strut in the middle of a fields each day, if you called he would gobble like crazy while promptly walking the opposite direction. Finally a buddy and split up and he went on one side and called and called while I used a ditch the sounds of his gobbles to get into position on the other side of the field I didn't pop up until his gobbles were inside 40yds. We called it a turkey drive